Feral Labs Node Book #3: Fa Fa Futures, Ionian University

WhiteFeather has a chapter published as part of the newly released Feral Labs Node Book #3: Fa Fa Futures, published by Ionian University and the Feral Labs Network. The chapter is titled Wet Witches and Rewilded Biotech: Bastard Protocols for How to Grow a Homunculus (Badly). Additionally, another chapter, titled Rewilding Animism—Doing It With More-Than-Human Others by Veroniki Korakidou, features WhiteFeather’s work.

Wet Witches Abstract: This [illustrated] chapter discusses the feral turn through a feminist technoscientific methodology that reclaims the unruly, the embodied, and the affective within biotechnological practice. When positioned adjacent to ruderal witchcraft, the feral turn reorients knowledge-making towards the wet, disruptive interior ecologies of the body: menstrual blood, stem cells, sperm, saliva, and microbial agents that become the materials of resistance and regenerative magic. Through a series of interlinked case studies—artist residencies at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (UK), Ionian University (Greece), and Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal)—I trace the lineage of emergent bastard protocols: ritualised, queer, illegitimate methods that transgress sterile logics of institutional biotech. Rather than neutral backdrops, these residencies also served as co-agents—juxtaposing landscapes, collaborators, and institutional ecologies that structurally shaped my experiments. From conjuring a queer homunculoid in a horseshit-lined hole in a garden box, to differentiating wild-type endometrial stem cells into neuronal forms, this work has operated in the cracks of legitimacy to cultivate feral futures through feminist material spirituality. Countering corporatised notions of “rewilding” from remote tundras, my practice rewilds from within: promoting participatory rituals and epistemic leakages to reanimate the “lab” with deeply personal, witchy wetness.

For access to a free, downloadable PDF version of the book, visit the Rewilding Cultures website here: https://rewildingcultures.net/