Category: bitter plants
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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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Taste Bitter
Great Yellow Gentian (Gentian lutea) grows in the hills of the Pyrenees. The root of the plant is considered the measure of bitterness and it has an ancient history of use by women as an emmenagogue. The root is the chief ingredient of the French liqueur Suze. Photos by Wannes Cré. De Langste Dag /…
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Bitter Walk Wind Sing
A PROCESSIONAL WORK THAT HONOURS BITTER PLANTS, FORGOTTEN MIDWIVES AND UNLICENSED FEMALE PRACTITIONERS In BITTER WALK WIND SING the Midwife’s Herball becomes an Ambulatory Library that journeys to lands-edge in Ostend to sing itself into the winds of the North Sea. There, carried on windstream, it will blow across the ocean and into the Bay of Luanda, into the…