"Heaven, Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Lake, Thunder, and Mountain.

 In sacred space, we ask for permission to open the archives and traumatic memory held in the Norwegian trials of witchcraft. Through ritualization of the space, and by invoking pharmacopeia (healing medicine) we embody and re-imagine herbcraft and the practice of magic today. This performance honors the beliefs, knowledge, and skills of oracles, seers, magicians, healers, midwives, and wise women. It calls for the return of medicine women and men." 

Performing artists: Amalia Fonfara, Jessica Ullevålseter, Nazare Soares, and Marita Isobel Solberg.

The 2nd Symposium of Spiritual Technologies within Creative Practices explores the history of witchcraft in Norway and Europe and discusses the capitalization of health in the Middle Ages as well as its repercussions today. Joining the voices of artists, ethnobotanists, historians, herbalists, and researchers from related fields, the symposium offers talks, panels, a Witch Trial walk in the local area, ritualistic performances, and a plant ceremony in ethnobotanist and animistic practices. 

The events raise questions such as: How can we approach nature as an intrinsically living archive and bearer of memory? Can we reimagine contemporary pharmacopeia to include learning from plants and folk medicines during today’s social health crises? What modes of convergence between new technologies, ceremonial spaces, and ritualistic re-enactment can we envision together?

The symposium is curated by Invisibledrum Art Platform, an artistic research collective investigating animistic practices and spiritual technologies within the field of arts and new ecologies, founded by Amalia Fonfara and Nazaré Soares. The theme emerges from the research of Invisibledrum’s current initiative, The Witch Trial Project, and is closely aligned with Diana Policarpo’s exhibition Nets of Hyphae at Kunsthall Trondheim

2nd Symposium of Spiritual Technologies within Creative Practices - Ethnobotany within Witch Trials and the Capitalisation of Health, Kunsthall Trondheim, NO.

Curated by Invisibledrum Art Platform. 

More Info: https://invisibledrum.com/symposium-2021/