NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE OCCURRED

WENDY MORRIS

Category: The Project

  • Manuscript. Archive of a Procession

    Manuscript. Archive of a Procession

    Comprising Nine Folders and Numerous Diagrams. Manuscript is an archive of the research that lead to the Procession of Contraceptive Plants and Forgotten Midwives at Middelheim Museum in June 2023. The work consists of over a thousand parts: documents, diagrams, recipes, narratives, hysteries, errorpoems, duets across the Atlantic, working drawings for banners, patterns for pockets,…

  • Procession of Contraceptive Plants and Forgotten Midwives / video

    Procession of Contraceptive Plants and Forgotten Midwives / video

    The Procession is a part of Nothing of Importance Occurred, a project of recuperation of a Herball for a 17th century Angolan midwife at the Cape, South Africa. This project explores the knowledge that midwives and women of the 17th century had of plants that controlled fertility. At the heart of the story is the…