Beth Gibbons

'Making connections' means networking for work

By actively looking out for these other beings a correspondence between the human and the non-human spheres starts to unfold

and analyzing works by Pierre Huyghe

Cedric Price

Cunning Folk - Life in the Era of Practical Magic Shika Shika Beth GibbonsIt's 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of 'service magic'. Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), these people were essential: a ubiquitous presence at a time