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HOMUNCULARIUM BASILISCUS, 2024
Homuncularium Basiliscus is the first in the Homuncularium series, activated at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, UK. This film documents the ritual im-plant-ation of reproductive body fluids from four donors, enacted according to blended protocols by 15th century alchemist, Paracelsus and from the museum's Richel collection. The blended protocol is for producing in vitro creatures, predominantly a basilisk/ human hybrid. Conducted on the lunar eclipse, March 2024 and installed in situ until December 31, 2024. Part of the year-long solo/curated exhibition, Arcanum Sanguinis: Occult Blood by WhiteFeather Hunter. Participant identities withheld for confidentiality purposes.
Private screenings have included at the Spring 2024 TTTlabs in Crete, GR; Occult Blood - Artist Discussion between Dr WhiteFeather Hunter and Dr Amy Hale, anthropologist and occult art historian, hosted by Treadwell's Books, London, UK; and, for the inaugural Jake Stratton-Kent Memorial Lecture hosted by the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in partnership with Scarlet Imprint.
MOONCALF HOMUNCULARIUM, 2024 with Elizabeth Littlejohn
Red string, like an umbilical cord, magically entwines fates. We wind strings around an incubation hut where body fluids have been poured together to create an alchemical in vitro baby, once called a ‘homunculus.’ Our string symbolizes “Ariadne’s thread,” the ball of yarn used as a way-finder out of the Cretan minotaur’s labyrinth, now a metaphor for unravelling ethical dilemmas.
The Mooncalf Homonculariam is permanently installed as an activated textile sculpture at Athens School of Fine Arts’ Annex of Rethymno in Crete.
A film by Elizabeth Littlejohn and ritual performance by WhiteFeather Hunter
A collaborative project by WhiteFeather Hunter and Elizabeth Littlejohn
TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp 2024
Link to full video available upon request to Elizabeth Littlejohn (@elizlit_art on IG).
Ritual participants:
Marko Markovic, Kim Doan Quoc, Wave (Weeratouch) Pongruengkiat, Natalie Jeremijenko, Prathima Muniyappa, Anastasia Mandel, Shih Wei Chieh (Abao), Elli Leventeri, Viktoria Koniaeva, Serafim Parsaloglou Marathias, Adam Zaretsky, Dalila Honorato, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Uroš Veber, Blue Zaretsky, WhiteFeather Hunter.
This film has been presented at FEMeeting 2024 in Canada; as part of the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA 2024) in Western Australia; and as part of CASTING A SPELL IN COMPUTATIONAL REGIMES: Ritual Practices for a Trans-Feminist Counter-Apocalypse curated by Arianna Forte for SomoS in Berlin.
