Tag: 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
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…
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An Ear to Ethnobiologists
SETTING UP A SERIES OF DIALOGUES WITH ETHNOBIOLOGISTS FOR THE PROJECT ‘A CERTAIN HERB’. Last week the project ‘A Certain Herb’ travelled to Marrakech, Morocco, to the Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiologists: Biodiversity and Cultural Landscapes: Scientific, Indigenous and Local Perspectives. Held at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, the Congress brought together…