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WENDY MORRIS

Category: wild worts

  • Artistic Research Project at Middelheim Museum / Discussion between Wendy Morris and curator Pieter Boons

    Artistic Research Project at Middelheim Museum / Discussion between Wendy Morris and curator Pieter Boons

    In residence at Middelheim Museum, Wendy Morris is exploring how knowledge of plant-based contraception has been passed down clandestinely for centuries. Curator Pieter Boons spoke with the artist about the many themes in her work: about our lost relationship with plants, about contraception, loss of language and personal connections to histories of enslavement. P: But…

  • Procession / Return Retrace Replant / Middelheim Museum

    Procession / Return Retrace Replant / Middelheim Museum

    Performative Procession of Contraceptive Plants, Forgotten Midwives and Herb Women / Middelheim Museum On Saturday 24/06 we held a Procession of Contraceptive Plants, Forgotten Midwives and Herb Women. Sixty participants took part by carrying the banners, attending to the plants, uttering the stitched texts, singing solo in the forest, and whistling in the field. We…

  • Belly Full of Blind Highways

    Belly Full of Blind Highways

    A Letter by Wendy Morris / commissioned by KAAP and artist collective Dear, The third tape letter in the series of Belly full of blind highways is by Wendy Morris, written from the perspective of a Wandering Womb and addressed to the wild wort Savin. The letter is a call to resume a relationship with…

  • Belly full of blind highways

    Belly full of blind highways

    Dear, and KAAP commission four audio letters by writers Fred Moten (US), Wendy Morris (SA-BE), Mo’min Swaitat aka. Palestine Sound Archive/Majazz Project (PS-UK) en Laura Grace Ford (UK). Dear, en KAAP werken samen aan de publicatie van vier audio-brieven waarvoor wij vier kunstenaars, dichters en auteurs uitnodigen om elk hun eigen brief bij te dragen.…