Digital print with collaged magazine cuttings (30.4 x 44 cm)
Edition of 30 + 5 AP, signed and numbered.
Florencia Garcia Chafuen: The Witch / Laura Cameron Lewis: The Cakewalk Queen / Rosalind Masson: The Muse and Judith Williams: Puella Aeterna
costume: Richard Nicoll / stylist: Anthony Campbell / hair and makeup designer: Debbie Dannell / assisted by Hannah Wynne and also Alison Cameron for MAC.
photo: Jannica Honey. The Darktown Cakewalk:Celebrated from the House of Fame. Chisenhale Gallery, London. 10.vii. 2010.
Rosalind Masson: The Muse and Judith Williams: Puella Aeterna
costume: Richard Nicoll / stylist: Anthony Campbell / hair and makeup designer: Debbie Dannell / assisted by Hannah Wynne and also Alison Cameron for MAC / Puella Aeterna’s brank made by Catriona Gourlay.
photo: Jannica Honey. The Darktown Cakewalk:Celebrated from the House of Fame. Chisenhale Gallery, London. 10.vii. 2010.
...I saw Minnie Mouse’s white gloved hand waving at me and I began to wonder.
Judith Williams as Puella Aeterna / Rosalind Masson as The Muse / Sari Lievonen and Linder as Animus, Anima, Animal.
The Darktown Cakewalk:Celebrated from the House of Fame. Chisenhale Gallery, London. 10.vii. 2010.
costume: Richard Nicoll / stylist: Anthony Campbell / hair and makeup designer: Debbie Dannell / assisted by Hannah Wynne / photo: Jannica Honey
voice: Laura Cameron Lewis (as The Cakewalk Queen) / samples sourced by Linder and Stuart McCallum.
The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME. 23. iv. 2010, Glasgow.
soundtrack recorded and produced by Antti Saario and Philip Reeder.
Produced by Sorcha Dallas Gallery and originally created at The Work Room.
“Another constituent of the witch’s ointment was rumoured to be soot, which may also be a metaphor for menstrual blood (as the traditional joke has it: “I know a whore who smokes so much she has a fall of soot each month instead of a period”). However, changing the colour of one’s skin, becoming covered with clay or mud, which is then washed off in a pageant of renewal, is said to be not only a feature of witches’ rites, but of women’s menstrual initiations also. In such rites a celebrant may be seized by an ecstatic trance-experience of possession, the actions and speech of which are taken seriously by the congregation and priest, as instruction.”
Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove, The Wise Wound: Menstruation & Everywoman. 1978
Linder - costume: Richard Nicoll / stylist: Anthony Campbell / hair and makeup designer: Debbie Dannell. Linder's brank made by Catriona Gourlay. The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME. 10. vii. 2010 Chisenhale Gallery, London.
“The fluidity and wit of the witches is evident in the ever-changing acronym: the basic, original title was Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell ...the latest heard at this writing is Women Inspired to Commit Herstory”
Robin Morgan, Sisterhood is Powerful. 1970