{"id":39223,"date":"2026-04-03T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/?p=39223"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:05:04","slug":"on-magic-the-obscene-bodily-fluids-and-witches-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/on-magic-the-obscene-bodily-fluids-and-witches-3\/","title":{"rendered":"On Magic, The Obscene, Bodily Fluids and Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who are the cyberwitches <\/em>
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(On spells and cyberwitches, Arianna Forte<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me introduce you to a coven of beloved witches, lovers, and friends, speaking in tongues made of taboo and tenderness, of shame unlearned and margins reclaimed, of the erotic as knowledge and the esoteric as home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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le ambigue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We are the witches of obscenity <\/em>
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There is no rebellion without the power of orgasmic fluid, blood, semen, saliva, thick liquid dripping from our thighs with noisy frequencies as in a dystopian journey where you end up between our teeth. <\/em>
-on le ambigue<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Self-exploration becomes an act of defiance forging a witch coven preaching consensual pleasure in the performance on\/scenity<\/a> by le ambigue<\/a>. Performed (the premiere) at the Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence (TTT) conference in 2025\/Ljubljana – a celebration of synthetic desires, a provocative ceremony that interweaves sex, magic and biology. Our cult challenges the boundaries between technology and flesh, between impurity and power, between eroticism and revolution<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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is a spell, a ritual initiation chant \u2013 the exchange of liquids and money, the flow of liquid ingested into pleasure poison-potion and then discharged.\u00a0Zoe Williams & HYDRA\u00a0 (in the film-trailer) plays with notions of service, intimacy and consumption \u2013 soon the full version.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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re-c(O)unting I. self-exploring bodies, stories, laboratories<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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re-c(O)unting I. self-exploring bodies, stories, laboratories – is an artistic-scientific research as well a film and a performance that encompasses the stories to be retold, the cunts to be acknowledged, computation as a field to be reclaimed, and the altered states to be experienced.
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GO DEEPER<\/a> <\/a>\u2197 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sentient Clit: <\/strong>
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Whitefeather Hunter & Jiabao Li investigate the potential of lab-grown clitorises created by 3D bio-printing stem cells derived from menstrual fluid to challenge male-dominated narratives in tech spaces, advocating for a feminist, non-binary methodology focused on pleasure and eroticism beyond reproductive function. Sentient Clit: The Pussification of Biotech. Is it a sentient being? Can it give consent?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Congregation of Mysteries<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amulets, talismans and ex-votos are each ancient technologies for protection and the fulfilment of wishes. Ginevra Petrozzi <\/strong>with Congregation of Mysteries, <\/strong>brings together the power of magical imagery and the mysteries of technology and digital infrastructures. Winner of the Premio Speciale GNAMC, Talent Prize 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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READ THE INTERVIEW \u2197 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Magia, Medicina e Biohacking<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Magic and medicine: two terms that, in the contemporary world, evoke antithetical scenarios, but which we can bring into dialogue as soon as we take a historical look at their relationship. What form should a political claim on health take, straddling the struggle for access to health and criticism of the epistemological and clinical systems of biomedicine?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Magia, Medicina e Biohacking: teorie e pratiche per l\u2019autogestione dei corpi<\/strong> – online module at the Master di Studi e Politiche di Genere,<\/strong> Uni Roma3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Bioart Coven<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Bioart Coven<\/strong> reclaims the witch as central to biotech\u2019s historical and symbolic lineage – we, an international collective of over 75 artists, makers, hackers, scientists, witches, feminists, and open-minded thinkers are united by a shared fascination with the generative overlap between witchcraft and technofeminism<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A project initiated with the online course of Whitefeather Hunter at the School of Machines Making and Make-Believe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let me introduce you to a coven of beloved witches, lovers, and friends, speaking in tongues made of taboo and tenderness, of shame unlearned and margins reclaimed, of the erotic as knowledge and the esoteric as home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,554,95],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-39223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-en","category-hello-darkness-en","category-wewilldesign-en","tag-design-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOn Magic, The Obscene, Bodily Fluids and Witches - BASE Milano<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BASE hands over the pen to its Design Ambassadors, who explore and reinterpret, the curatorial theme of 2026, Hello Darkness.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/on-magic-the-obscene-bodily-fluids-and-witches-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On Magic, The Obscene, Bodily Fluids and Witches - 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