'Occult Blood' – Artist Discussion

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

Hunter's exhibition 'Arcanum Sanguinis: Occult Blood' is currently at the museum. Her projects 'The Witch in the Lab Coat', 'Bioart Coven' and 'The Pussification Biotech' are among the many which traverse technofeminism, witchcraft, microbiology, performance, media and craft. On this evening, her conversation partner / interviewer  is Dr Amy Hale, anthropologist and occult art historian. This is a conversation for artists, taboo-breakers, magical transgressors – everyone who dares the danger at the edges. Join us!

Viewers can join live from anywhere in the world, and/or watch on delayed view. This is a rescheduled date with an adjusted format from the 8th August event.

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 supported 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.