MOONCALF HOMUNCULARIUM

2024

Red string, like an umbilical cord, magically entwines fates. We wind strings around an incubation hut where body fluids have been poured together to create an alchemical in vitro baby, once called a ‘homunculus.’ Our string symbolizes “Ariadne’s thread,” the ball of yarn used as a way-finder out of the Cretan minotaur’s labyrinth, now a metaphor for unravelling ethical dilemmas.

A collaborative project by WhiteFeather Hunter and Elizabeth Littlejohn for TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp Spring 2024, the Mooncalf Homunculariam is permanently installed as an activated textile sculpture at Athens School of Fine Arts’ Annex of Rethymno in Crete.

The ritual performance, led by WhiteFeather Hunter, counted with the participation of Marko Markovic, Kim Doan Quoc, Wave (Weeratouch) Pongruengkiat, Natalie Jeremijenko, Prathima Muniyappa, Anastasia Mandel, Shih Wei Chieh (Abao), Elli Leventeri, Viktoria Koniaeva, Serafim Parsaloglou Marathias, Adam Zaretsky, Dalila Honorato, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Uroš Veber, Blu Zaretsky and WhiteFeather Hunter.

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Mooncalf Homuncularium is a film by Elizabeth Littlejohn with additional camera by Kelly Tarenidi. Original audio components by WhiteFeather Hunter, remixed by Elizabeth Littlejohn.

Filmed during the "TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC): New Repro-Zombie Studies (NR-ZS) - Undead Bioart / Bodyart on the Beach" event developed for the Rewilding Cultures project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Ionian University with the support of Athens School of Fine Arts’ Annex of Rethymno in Crete in April 5-14 2024. ​

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This film has been screened at FEMeeting 2024 in Windsor, Canada; installed as part of the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA 2024) in the exhibition ReGEN :: to form anew, Moores Building Art Space (MBAS), Fremantle, Australia; as part of CASTING A SPELL IN COMPUTATIONAL REGIMES: Ritual Practices for a Trans-Feminist Counter-Apocalypse, SomoS, Berlin; and at ZK/U Berlin - Center for Art and Urbanistics. The work is featured in two separate chapters in the Feral Labs Node Book #3: Fa Fa Futures (Ionian University).