Witch Institute

The “Witch” in Relationality with the More-than-Human: Mutually Shaping Experiences

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This panel gathers artists working at the intersection of spiritual, feminist, and caregiving practices to explore the witch’s generative re-appraisal of the more-than-human. Approaching things like plants and textiles as alive with information and intent for themselves, the witch goes beyond patriarchal colonial capitalist assertions about mere matter, in the process finding room to re-imagine the human experience as well.


Hannah Zbitnew is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in textile and ceramics. Working from a broader practice of care, she analyzes the mutually shaping relationship between folktale witches and their clothes, using a theory of enclothed cognition.


Anastasia Ferguson is an independent mixed media artist, whose practice involves hand-processing film using both photochemistry and eco-solutions. Starting with the essentializing equation patriarchal society has made between women and nature, she explores her own film development as the location for playing with and against these gendered assumptions.


Kamee Abrahamian is a queer-feminist caregiver, practitioner of magic and folk art, and interdisciplinary creative-writer-curator-performer-producer-facilitator. They will present a piece of fiction/nonfiction writing wherein a botanist becomes obsessed with plant frequencies that carry the potential for a reclamation of intergenerational human and plant knowledges silenced by the Armenian genocide.


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