Tag: Middelheim Museum
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Clandestine Radio
RADIO HUSH HUSH / HET HUIS PAVILION / MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM / ANTWERP / 2023 Radio Hush Hush transmits a muted chorus of female voices whispering one to another. The work performs fragmented knowledge of plant-based anti-fertility remedies that has been disappearing through the ages due to broken chains of vocal transmission. The work emerges from…
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Midwife’s Herball Middelheim / Diagram
TABLING THE VIRTUES, SOMEWHAT ABBREVIATED, OF TWELVE PLANTS ONCE KNOWN TO BE VERY USEFUL TO WOMEN-IN-NEED, GROWING WILD, CULTIVATED, GATHERED OR TRADED – THEN, NOW, OR AT ONE TIME – IN AND AROUND THE PARK OF THE MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM
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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…
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Conversation between Wendy Morris and curator Pieter Boons
Conversation between Pieter Boons, curator of the Artistic Research Project, and Wendy Morris, in the studio at the Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, May 10th, 2023. On Radio Hush Hush, the emergence of the Company and preparations for the Procession. P: You don’t work alone. You are working in or as a Company. Who is the…
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Installation / Radio Hush Hush / Middelheim Museum
Summer installation Middelheim Museum Radio Hush Hush was accompanied to het huis pavilion at Middelheim Museum by the Procession on June 24th. The form of this sound installation of female voices whispering contraceptive and abortive recipes references clandestine radio broadcasts. Comprising six finch cages each fitted with a speaker the work features the voices of…