It was constructed with several moving parts, allowing those seated at the table to move objects to its center to hold a place of focus, as well as to pass objects to one another. At 9 feet in diameter, it accommodates him and 12 guests. During the séance, some illusory techniques are used to reproduce effects generated by Victorian-era spiritualists.Ĭentral to the second half of the show is London's elaborate séance table. In the first part of the show, illusion is used to illuminate the story of Barnum's life. Throughout all of London's performances, he utilizes magic tricks to tell stories and explore ideas. "Humbug" first premiered at the Peale Center in Baltimore, housed in the oldest museum building in America, which provided London inspiration to uncover and share Barnum's history as a museum man. "He considered spiritualists the bad kind of humbug and exposed their methods throughout his life." Interestingly, Barnum hated séances and spoke against them, noting that they took advantage of those mourning the loss of loved ones. "He also had a history of walking the fine line between fact and fiction, truth and lie, which are subjects that piqued my interest as a magician," London says. Most of his artifacts came from eBay or directly from collectors, including prize finds such as the miniature wedding album of Tom Thumb, small photos of many of Barnum's Living Wonders and a copy of his autobiography owned by Barnum himself. Rather he wanted to create a show that directly explored the process of curation and exhibition, as well as the display of genuine artifacts versus reproductions, fakes and phonies. But it wasn't just Barnum's museum past that garnered his interest.
London recalls creating "Humbug" as a way of processing his first full-fledged museum project. Barnum Séance." The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design will play host to five performances.
It was in 2017 while curating his first major museum exhibition, "Inescapable: the Life & Legacy of Harry Houdini," at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, that he began working on "Humbug: the Great P.T. "I've been fascinated with séances for over 20 years, but for most of that time I struggled with the ethical aspects of actually presenting a séance, even a theatrical séance, for the public," he explains. He wrote his first séance in high school, but never performed it. By the time he was a teen, he'd found that magic was a great tool to tell stories and explore ideas. Rarely the Ghastly Ritual may temporarily transform a Sim into Bonehilda.įurther into the skill, Sims will be able to summon their own seance circles on the ground and be able to conduct seances anywhere on the ground for 5 simoleons.David London was 7 years old when he discovered that he was a magician. This allows even child Sims to temporarily become ghost provided their Medium skill is Level 4 or higher.
Ghastly Ritual ability allows a medium to temporarily turn themselves into a Ghost. With seances, Sims can also summon Claude René Duplantier Guidry or Bonehilda. Sims can perform seances on a seance table, performing them will allow the Sim to commune with ghosts and the spirits haunting the house, see the moods of the specters, and enact ghastly rituals for the ghosts. A Sim summoning a seance circle on the ground.
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