Category: A Certain Herb
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Tea with Trixie
On Friday 7th we held a TEA WITH TRIXIE at Theater Tinnenpot, Ghent. A salon and a séance, a pageant and performative enquiry, TEA WITH TRIXIE is an encounter with Béatrice de Planissoles, Occitan woman summoned before the Inquisitor in the 14th century. Thank you to all the participants who brought this work to life!…
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Release / What Trixie could not tell the Inquisitor
New three-part radio work TRANSMIT Volume I: What Trixie Could Not Tell the Inquisitor. 2025. A work in three parts by Wendy Morris / produced by Guy Livingston / with Patricia Kaersenhout as Orlando, Valeria Mignaco as Trixie / in collaboration with Mariske Broeckmeyer, Alexander Cromer, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Colette Kinsella, Anders Jallén, Maria Sperling, Renée Turner…
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ENACT Festival
Performing Research Organised by LUCA’s Arts & Society expertise network, the festival explores artistic research and its embodied transmission. Across four days LUCA researchers and their collaborators invite audiences into diverse worlds: from underwater silt intelligence and live-streamed forest ecologies, to inquisitorial testimonies, resistant folk traditions and media archaeologies. ENACT is a festival of artistic inquiry…
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A Certain Herb / Folder
Setting out a story of a contraceptive pessary, a plan to lend an ear to ethnobiologists, a series of Teas with Trixie, and a Parade in the Pyrenees. Photos by Wannes Cré. Design by Pauline Scharmann
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A Certain Herb
WHAT SHALL I DO IF I AM MADE PREGNANT BY YOU? I SHALL BE DISHONOURED AND LOST. Béatrice de Planissoles was being questioned by the Inquisitor in 1320 about her affair, twenty years previously, with a priest. She speaks quite openly about the contraceptive pessary that he would bring to their bed, though she could…
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An Ear to Ethnobiologists
SETTING UP A SERIES OF DIALOGUES WITH ETHNOBIOLOGISTS FOR THE PROJECT ‘A CERTAIN HERB’. Last week the project ‘A Certain Herb’ travelled to Marrakech, Morocco, to the Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiologists: Biodiversity and Cultural Landscapes: Scientific, Indigenous and Local Perspectives. Held at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, the Congress brought together…