NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE OCCURRED

WENDY MORRIS

Tag: weedworts

  • Artistic Research Project at Middelheim Museum / Discussion between Wendy Morris and curator Pieter Boons

    Artistic Research Project at Middelheim Museum / Discussion between Wendy Morris and curator Pieter Boons

    In residence at Middelheim Museum, Wendy Morris is exploring how knowledge of plant-based contraception has been passed down clandestinely for centuries. Curator Pieter Boons spoke with the artist about the many themes in her work: about our lost relationship with plants, about contraception, loss of language and personal connections to histories of enslavement. P: But…

  • Belly Full of Blind Highways

    Belly Full of Blind Highways

    A Letter by Wendy Morris / commissioned by KAAP and artist collective Dear, The third tape letter in the series of Belly full of blind highways is by Wendy Morris, written from the perspective of a Wandering Womb and addressed to the wild wort Savin. The letter is a call to resume a relationship with…

  • Belly full of blind highways

    Belly full of blind highways

    Dear, and KAAP commission four audio letters by writers Fred Moten (US), Wendy Morris (SA-BE), Mo’min Swaitat aka. Palestine Sound Archive/Majazz Project (PS-UK) en Laura Grace Ford (UK). Dear, en KAAP werken samen aan de publicatie van vier audio-brieven waarvoor wij vier kunstenaars, dichters en auteurs uitnodigen om elk hun eigen brief bij te dragen.…

  • Hysteries / Plant of the Damned / Walk

    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.

  • Exhibition / Ninguém teria acreditado / Pinacoteca Sao Paulo

    Exhibition / Ninguém teria acreditado / Pinacoteca Sao Paulo

    The audio installation, A Hysterie of Guiné Weed and Sorrow Seed, is a part of the exhibition Ninguém teria acreditado at Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo. Curators Fernanda Pitta and Laurens Dhaenens. The exhibition is a second, larger, iteration of No One Would Have Believed, that ran at Netwerk Aalst a year ago. The exhibition recuperates the historical…

  • A Hysterie of Guiné Weed and Sorrow Seed

    A Hysterie of Guiné Weed and Sorrow Seed

    A duet across the Atlantic of two esteemed weedworts with long histories of use as anti-fertility plants in West Africa and Latin America / in production