Tag: the company
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Recipe-as-Archive
Kerrievis, or Pickled Fish as it is also known, is a dish that entangles histories of forced migrations and travelling women. In Taati Niilenge’s Walvis Bay: Our Story (2024) Nangula Shikujele remembers the 1960s in Kuisebmond when fish were plentiful and fishers returning from sea would bring fish for the entire community. The neighbourhood would…
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Fieldguide Gathering
Polyvocal Reading of Fieldguide vol 1 with Orlando Preternaturalist, Nadia Kamies and Ten Voices at ESALA / Adam House Basement Theatre / Edinburgh / December 3, 2024
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Bitter Walk Wind Sung
Viatrix and the Journeywomen lead the procession back to the beach. Photos by Wannes Cré
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Wind Sing
Viatrix sings the Midwife’s Herball into the Wind VIATRIX : Wen Hui Tsang. Photos by Wannes Cré.
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Bitter Walk Wind Sing
The Company of Fifty carried the Midwife’s Herball out to meet the winds of the North Sea Saturday 29, June 2024, Western Breakwater, Ostend, Belgium. Photos by Wannes Cré. De Langste Dag / Mu.Zee and KAAP Kunstencentrum
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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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The Return
We are picking a path northwards, along sandy tracks and mountain passes. This is an expedition to be sure. It ghosts an earlier, weightier, expedition that marched out of the Fort of Good Hope with flocks of sheep, herds of oxen, riding horses and donkeys, with wagons, light carts that carried one boat and two…
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Travelogue of the Wandering Womb, Her Fantastic Encounters and Curious Utterings
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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Exhibition
NO ONE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED – NIEMAND ZOU HEBBEN GELOOFD – PERSONNE N’AURAIT CRU HENRIQUE ALVIM CORRÊA, H. G. WELLS, RUNO LAGOMARSINO, WENDY MORRIS & MARISKE BROECKMEYER 12.12.2020 14.03.2021 No one would have believed is an exhibition that brings art, popular culture and politics together. It focuses on the work by two contemporary artists, Wendy Morris – working…