The Witching Hour

The follow-up to Witches: Hunted, Appropriated, Empowered, Queered (2012), this volume is conceived as its visual companion and the catalogue of a group exhibition held at Le Quartier in Quimper. It questions what witches embody, what mechanisms and effects they summon, how witches as a group became models of proto-feminism, and what political, social and human lessons they have given us. The projects research dimension is conveyed by a textual thread somewhere between a glossary and a journal of quotes. Extracts from key texts from the past 30 years accompany new writings, artworks, exhibition views, artist contributions and source documents.