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Issue 1: Research Festival

Reconstructing witches in feminism

A self-interview about my research and practice in reconstructing witches under a feminist context. Here I will discuss artists, poetry, films, operas, dances and podcasts that influenced me.

WITCH on Wall Street October 31, 1968. Photograph copyright Bev Grant

Ling Huang, In Prison,  Acrylic on canvas, 75cmx 50cm, 2021
Screenshot of a video of 90 year old Ghana woman Akua Dentah being tortured
Ling Huang, The Witch of Garsenda, video, 2022
Ling Huang, Dance 5, Oil pastel on paper, 29.7cmx 21cm, 2022Ling Huang, music sundown,  acrylic pen on paper, 21cm x 14.8cm, 2022
Ling Huang, music sundown,  acrylic pen on paper, 21cm x 14.8cm, 2022

Video links of Green and Blue:

https://linghuang2020.wixsite.com/my-site/%E5%89%AF%E6%9C%AC-%E5%8E%9Funit-3

Ling Huang, Serenity, digital painting, 29.7cm x 21cm, 2022
Images

WITCH on Wall Street October 31, 1968. Photograph copyright Bev Grant

Ling Huang, In Prison,  Acrylic on canvas, 75cmx 50cm, 2021

Screenshot of a video of 90 year old Ghana woman Akua Dentah being tortured

Ling Huang, Dance 5, Oil pastel on paper, 29.7cmx 21cm, 2022

Ling Huang, music sundown,  acrylic pen on paper, 21cm x 14.8cm, 2022

Ling Huang, Serenity, digital painting, 29.7cm x 21cm, 2022

References

Wikipedia Contributors (2021). Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell. [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_International_Terrorist_Conspiracy_from_Hell#CITEREFAdler2006 [Accessed 26 Jan. 2022].

Centre, P.M. (n.d.). Experiments in Art Writing. [online] www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. Available at: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/experiments-in-art-writing-roger-robinson [Accessed 7 Jun. 2022].

Lloyd, K. (n.d.). Podcast. [online] This Thing We Call Art. Available at: https://www.thisthingwecallart.com/podcast [Accessed 7 Jun. 2022].

Tamás, R. (2019). Witch. London: Penned In The Margins.

The Blue Woman. (2022). [Opera] Royal Opera House.

Witch. (2022). [Opera] Royal College of Music.

Kurys, D. (1977). Peppermint Soda. amazon.com. Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Peppermint-Soda-Anouk-Ferjac/dp/B085VXYXBR [Accessed 16 Nov. 2022].

All About Lily Chou-Chou, Film. (2001). Directed by Shunji Iwai. Rockwell Eyes inc.

Water Light/Water Needle. (1966).Directed by Carolee Schneemann

“Lucy Stein & France-Lise McGurn Present NEO-PAGAN BITCH-WITCH!” Evelyn Yard, www.evelynyard.com/exhibitions/lucy-stein-france-lise-mcgurn-present-neo-pagan-bitch-witch/. Accessed 6 Dec. 2022.

“Motherland: Fort Salem.” Wikipedia, 29 Nov. 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherland:_Fort_Salem. Accessed 6 Dec. 2022.

Pullman, Philip. His Dark Materials. U.S., Bluefire, 2011.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. S.L., Arthur A Levine, 2007.

“Waking the Witch.” LEGION PROJECTS, www.legionprojects.com/wakingthewitch. Accessed 6 Dec. 2022.

星星采集员 (2022). Shunji Iwai 沉浸式感受岩井俊二眼中的春夏秋冬_哔哩哔哩_bilibili. [online] www.bilibili.com. Available at: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bd4y1M7on/?spm_id_from=333.1007.top_right_bar_window_custom_collection.content.click&vd_source=9b91753d4d27351639b91001e0378057 [Accessed 16 Nov. 2022].

About the author

Ling Huang is a London-based artist working with painting, poems, audios, videos , photographs and interviews. She studied MA Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell from 2021 to 2022. Follow her work @ling_h5 and https://linghuang2020.wixsite.com/my-site.