Tag: banners
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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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Bitter Walk Wind Sing
A PROCESSIONAL WORK THAT HONOURS BITTER PLANTS, FORGOTTEN MIDWIVES AND UNLICENSED FEMALE PRACTITIONERS In BITTER WALK WIND SING the Midwife’s Herball becomes an Ambulatory Library that journeys to lands-edge in Ostend to sing itself into the winds of the North Sea. There, carried on windstream, it will blow across the ocean and into the Bay of Luanda, into the…
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Call for participation
BITTER WALK WIND SING A Performative Procession DE LANGSTE DAG / OOSTENDE / KAAP & MUZEE Saturday 29 June / 18h This year I have been working on a new iteration of a processional work that was previously performed in the park of the Middelheim Museum. This iteration comes to Oostende (as part of De Langste…
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Mary Lowndes and Suffragette banners
The form of the banners made for Procession at Middelheim Museum is influenced by the work of Suffragette artist Mary Lowndes. In 1909 she published her manifesto On Banners and Banner-making in the form of a pamphlet A banner is not a literary affair, it is not a placard; leave such to boards and sandwichmen.…
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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…