Tag: teas with trixie
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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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A Certain Herb / Folder
Setting out a story of a contraceptive pessary, a plan to lend an ear to ethnobiologists, a series of Teas with Trixie, and a Parade in the Pyrenees. Photos by Wannes Cré. Design by Pauline Scharmann
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A Certain Herb
WHAT SHALL I DO IF I AM MADE PREGNANT BY YOU? I SHALL BE DISHONOURED AND LOST. Béatrice de Planissoles was being questioned by the Inquisitor in 1320 about her affair, twenty years previously, with a priest. She speaks quite openly about the contraceptive pessary that he would bring to their bed, though she could…