"If a man sneezes during a meal, some person present calls on him to name his birthplace."

William Crooke, Religion and Folklore of Northern India (1926)

In this talk, Aaron Schuster traces the philosophy and aesthetics of sneezing through the history of cinema, including the first ever copyrighted film, Hitchcock’s missing sneeze gag, Harpo Marx’s only onscreen line, and Edie Sedgwick’s sniffles, as well as one of most enigmatic constructions by Marcel Duchamp, Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?

Friday 4 June at the CAC Reading Room

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