The Jake Stratton-Kent Memorial Lecture
ONLINE via ZOOM : 19:30 GMT / 7.30 PM – 4th November
Presented by the MWM and introduced by Scarlet Imprint, the Jake Stratton-Kent memorial lecture is inaugurated by WhiteFeather Hunter PhD. This first talk in the series is available exclusively to Patrons as part of their membership.
Dr Hunter curated the 2024 exhibition Arcanum Sanguinis as an extension of her 2022 Artists’ Residency at the MWM, following an extended period of in situ and field research conducted in the archive, library and collections of the Museum. The Exhibition key is here.
A publication, ARCANUM SANGUINIS: OCCULT BLOOD: Science and Medicine Underwritten by Witchcraft and Magic is to be published by HarbourWitch Press in early 2025.
The Jake Stratton-Kent Lecture is an initiative of the MWM made possible by his bequest which generously provides for archival activation in its many and various forms.
The MWM wishes to thank Scarlet Imprint for their advice and guidance in developing the idea. The Jake Stratton-Kent Lecture will periodically make possible extended scholarly study in the archives and presentation of research in an online talk series delivered exclusively to MWM Patrons.
In the inaugural lecture for MWM, the Museum takes great pleasure in introducing WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD.
She presents her research following a risk taking exhibition which curates displays of photographic petri dish sigils alongside a 3D printed clitoris and AI generated myceliae; works by chaos magician Genesis Breyer P-Orridge reference Simon Costin’s work Incubus, alongside Hunter’s own glass and fluid sculpture Succour in the fecund realms of biological art.
This is underpinned by rock solid scholarship with scientific insights into her subjects and objects. Arcanum Sangunis displays a dizzying yet somehow coherent range of mind; intelligible, accessible, and always exhilarating.
We feel that Jake would have approved.