Tag: !midwif
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Manuscript for a Librarian / The Company
Diagram of organs and entities of The Company that is a part of Manuscript for a Librarian / 2024.
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The Dissolving
My body is breaking up / my-body-is-breaking-up / and each sense, each organ, is going out to work. The Dissolving is an audio-work through which The Company emerges as voice. As a written work it also becomes a part of the The Lost Volumes (Vol X. The Company) Wendy Morris and Mariske Broeckmeyer / Like…
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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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! Call to participate !
Since January Wendy has been working in commission of the Middelheim Museum on a new performance work in which the virtues of medicinal plants growing in the park – and more specifically indigenous contraceptive plants – are central. On June 24 this work, which is a procession and an ambulatory library, will wind its way…
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Hysteries / Plant of the Damned / Walk
Rooted Encounters / Middelheim Museum / November 9 2022 Walking Vulvaria and Plant of the Damned to the Garden of Promise. Nothing of Importance Occurred. Recuperating a Herball for a 17th century Midwife.
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Travelogue of the Wandering Womb, Her Fantastic Encounters and Curious Utterings: To the Copper Mountains
As a Thread Winding Backwards, an Audio Eerie + Prologue + A Tale of Eleven Births + The Ghosts of my Friends Wendy Morris & Mariske Broeckmeyer / 2020 / Exhibition ‘No One Would Have Believed’ / Netwerk Aalst An audio-eerie in two parts: First, a dissolving into a constellation of organs and entities, human plant…
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Whoever says sugar says Brazil
Whoever says sugar says Brazil. Whoever says Brazil says Angola. 17th century aphorism
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Eleven births backwards
!midwif aka ‘Maaij’ Claesje of Angola, mother of Sara Van Gijselen, who is mother of Dorothea Oelofse, who is mother of Roelof Campher, who is father of Roelof Campher, who is father of Johanna Sophia Jacoba Campher, who is mother of Catharina Dorothea Meeding, who is mother of Catherine Hooper, who is mother of Robert…