Research; Witch related social customs and contemporary identity of women.

 

 

Found - the problem with speaking for others and downloaded the paper from the library. READ THIS.

Apotropaic Marks: Tower of London

Artist Lucy J Wright: Witch cakes

Women / womb man / wer Insta explanation

Modern obsession with telling women to self care - Guardian Article

Red Flags anti capitalism -Impact of the nuclear family on mothers

Mum shaming Guardian article 

Community living women article.

City as a project Drurer relates to class.

W.I.T.C.H Why they're still relevant. Article re 1968 This event is referenced in Mona Chollet's book; In Defence of Witches: "We demanded an audience with Satan, our superior, at the Stock Exchange - an ignorant faux pas which now makes me cringe: the members of the Old Religion never worshipped Satan. They were followers of a tripartite Goddess: it was the Christian church who invented Satan and then claimed that Witches were Satanists. We had bitten the patriarchal bait on that one, and on so many others..We were plain dumb. But we were dumb with style" p19  

 2017 Boston Counter Ralley        - referenced in Mona Chollet.

BOOK : Salem Witch Trial records - original records reproduced and can be shared and worked with to ensure not lost. Company contact details in book. (There's one of these for shetland.)

Instagram poetry re what is a mum

Dr Sophie Brock Motherhood Studies Sociologist

Found artist Malwine Strauss who focuses on the witch in her work.

The Abortion Frank Bowling. Horrific depiction of an abortion with what seems to be a demon and a bleeding dead baby ( not a foetus )

Look at Russell Tovey Talk Art podcast.- Update: Found the book ! Signed by the Authors - boom! I'm happy with that!

Back to Andrea Liss ;The conceived choice to be a mother or a feminist but not both.

The historical and cultural fear and hatred of the mother continue to conjure up notions of her omnipresence, her invisibility, or her inappropriateness while real mothers remain unacknowledged.

Andrea Liss. Feminist Art and the Maternal (Kindle Locations 100-101). Kindle Edition. 

Shorts - collection of links and you tube selection sourced for presentation, when curating the Art Talks session for 30 November. On this blog entry.  from 28 November.

Jan 15. Discovered Nicole Eiseman.. I mean she was there before I found her but LOOK!

  Such a literal portrayal of how women have been regarded and what's actually been deemed to be valuable.

Nicole Eisenman

Hanging Birth, 1994 
Ö l auf Leinwand / oil on canvas
184.15 x 158.75 cm / 72 1⁄2 x 62 1⁄2 in
Hort Family Collection

Guardian article.   Gallery Representation by Hauser and Wirth

Jan 2024. Listening to Women in Revolt -Tate Spotify series - this is brilliant and brings me back to grass roots activism, social commentary, making a difference. 

I've really enjoyed listening to this, the conversations steer my mind and help me to consider what I'm interested in around intersectional feminism and actual experience. Woman have made huge progress in challenging patriarchal culture but despite there being a sense of "women have got it all" now, we're all laden with guilt and expectation. It's like there's a cultural delay psychologically and we're being gas lighted into thinking we're ok when we're not, and we're still angry about it.  It also steers me to build the art collective that we want instead of mindlessly and desperately scrolling through instagram call outs.

Jan 2024. I've been following The Other Mother Project by Jennifer Anyan and recently responded to a call out to contribute to the project. 

Spoke a few times on insta and have a meeting Feb 2 on Teams.  

 - 23 April - Guardian article shared by The Other Mother Project  -Interesting article but the focus does seem to be on "as different as you can tap into' v the banal /everyday.

Always interested in the mad phenomenon  that is the Tradwife. Guardian Article 

Cindy Sherman BBC Documentary 8 Feb

Relationship between witchcraft and social class article

Have an exhibition that I need to find time to go to in Warrington: I became a mother

Had a look at Sybil Leek from Normacot and discounted her as a credible asset to my research.

Medieval folk law paper

A femimsist publication on Art and politics

Found an article re baking babies which Iya had referenced earlier in the year. Led me to find winter-roofing babies...

9 April 2024

The Scapegoat - Salem Museum; this is an interesting tool that the museum has made into a piece of work, that asks people to question the idea of the scapegoat - but you can make submissions. There's a drop down category box that feels like you've opened a box of Cards against humanity.... and the submissions are open to the public so the examples are interesting.....

The witch trials as a culture change phenomenon

Witch fiction article

Why do we like the witch - guardian article. 

cracking section in here that explores what I'm considering after my crit with MSB where he asked if I liked the witch. 

"Witches have always been a repository for all the patriarchal views of women: women as the mysterious Other, women as the temptress (no coincidence that 'bewitching' is a word used to describe sexual/lovelorn longing), women having knowledge that's inaccessible to men, women as the unknowable half of humanity. Put all of these together and you have the end subtext for patriarchal behaviour: women are a threat. Witches are women with power, and that's why they are so appealing - it's hard to make women (of any age, anywhere) who don't actively think about feminism aware of the systemic prejudice stacked against them throughout life, but witches are simultaneously the utmost patriarchal fear and what women desire made explicit, often fighting against a world antagonised towards them."

I think I have a complicated relationship with the witch - I don't like the cultural repercussions of the witch trials but I do like that the witch is the ultimate threat to patriarchy and a vessel for escapism- they still hold power in the agency that they offer. 

Braiding sweetgrass article in guardian

Everything new is forgotten old - Katrina Wilde