'Occult Blood' – Artist Discussion

Tpgether with the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, we invite you to an online discussion with transgressive occult artist WhiteFeather Hunter, as she talks about working with with magic sigils, menstrual blood and stem stells to make art at the intersection between feminist witchcraft and tissue engineering.  

Hunter's exhibition 'Arcanum Sanguinis: Occult Blood'  is currently at the museum.  'The Witch in the Lab Coat', 'Bioart Coven' and 'The Pussification Biotech' are among Hunter's many projects traversing technofeminism, witchcraft, microbiology, performance, media and craft. Her conversation partner / interviewer  is Dr Amy Hale, anthropologist and occult art historian, joining from the United States. This is one for artists, taboo-breakers, magical transgressors – everyone who dares the danger at the edges. 

This is a rescheduled date and adjusted format for the event which had been due to take place 8th August. 

 WhiteFeather Hunter PhD is a Canadian artist and scholar of international standing. After serving as a founding member and interim principal investigator of the Speculative Life BioLab, she went on to conduct doctoral research at  SymbioticA, University of Western Australia. Here she developed a novel menstrual serum for tissue-engineering experiments, which was spotlighted in 2021 by Merck/ Sigma-Aldrich's International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Amy Hale PhD is a writer, curator, critic, ethnographer and folklorist who speaks and writes about magic, art, and paganism. Presenting her work internationally, she is an acknowledged expert on the Cornwall-based occult artist Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988). Dr Hale has also authored many publications – most recently Colquhoun's biography and an acclaimed introductory book on the artist's Sex Magic.

The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic is a unique collection of over 2000 artefacts representing every British magical tradition from medieval angelic magic to modern Wicca. It is lsupported by an active Patrons' Scheme which helps fund artists-in-residence. Located in Boscastle Cornwall, the museum is open to the public through the summer months.