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  • Welcome to Drawing Blood, the podcast about art, science, and the macabre, hosted by Emma Merkling and Christy Slobogin.
    Emma Merkling and Christy Slobogin
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  • S3 Ep3: Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo

    S3 Ep3: Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo
    Jun 28 2024
    In this episode, Emma and Christy look at the complex paintings of the Spanish-Mexican Surrealist painter Remedios Varo (1908-1963). During our conversation, we discuss female alchemists, artist’s studio-as-laboratory, science and occultism, the overlapping practices of spiritual and material transformation, Carl Jung and esotericism in psychoanalysis, the Fourth Dimension, ‘objective art’, and alchemical androgyny. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE IMAGES WE DISCUSS, as well as complete show notes, references, and suggestions for further reading. WORKS DISCUSSED Remedios Varo, Useless Science, or The Alchemist [or, La Mujer Alquimista] (1955) Example illustration of a Rube Goldberg Machine (1931) Evelyn De Morgan, The Love Potion (1903) Remedios Varo, La Llamada (The Call) (1961) Remedios Varo, Creation of the Birds (1957) Albrecht Dürer, Saint Jerome in His Study (1514) Adriaen van Utrecht, Still Life with Parrot, or Allegory of Fire (1636) David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1650) Kati Horna, Portrait of Remedios Varo in her Studio (with crystal on easel) (1963) Remedios Varo, The Juggler (The Magician) (1956) Remedios Varo, Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst (Could Be Juliana) (1960) Marc Chagall, Homage to Apollinaire (1911-1912) Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (1915-1923) Remedios Varo, Harmony (1956) Example of an alchemical androgyne from Aurora consurgens (15th century) Remedios Varo, The Escape (1961) REFERENCES Caitlin Haskell and Tere Arcq, Remedios Varo: Science Fictions (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023) Sven Dupré, Laboratories of Art: Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century (London: Springer, 2014) Pamela Smith, ‘Laboratories’, in The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3: Early Modern Science, ed. by Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 289–305 Mary Anne Atwood, A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1918 [1850]) Pamela Thurschwell, Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2001) Carl Jung, On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena (1902) Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (London: Routledge, 1980 [1944]) Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (Boston: MIT Press, 2018) Charles Howard Hinton, The Fourth Dimension (London: George Allen, 1912) George I. Gurdjieff, In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness, ed. Stephen A. Grant (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2021) Salomon Trismosin, Splendor Solis (1582) FURTHER READING Tere Arcq, ed., Five Keys to the Secret World of Remedios Varo (Mexico City: Artes de México, 2008) Micah James Goodrich, ‘Trans Animacies and Premodern Alchemies’, in Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements (London: Springer, 2023) Emma Merkling, ‘Physics, Psychical Research, and the Self: Evelyn De Morgan’s Spiritualist Portraits’, Art History 46.3 (2023): 458–83 You can read more about Emma’s project on alchemy here! Mark Morrisson, Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Ricardo Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo: Catálogo Razonado / Catalogue Raisonné (Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1994) Lawrence M. Principe, ‘Alchemy I: Introduction,’ in Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism (London: Brill, 2005), 12-16 Arturo Schwarz, ‘Alchemy, Androgyny and Visual Artists,’ Leonardo 13, no. 1 (Winter 1980), 57-62 Pamela Smith, The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994) Remedios Varo, Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings, trans. Margaret Carson (Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2018)
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • S3 Ep2: Cannibalism on Film, Empathy, and Eating Disorders

    S3 Ep2: Cannibalism on Film, Empathy, and Eating Disorders
    May 30 2024
    Emma and Christy look at Julia Ducournau’s first feature film, the cannibal coming-of-age body horror flick 'Grave' (or 'Raw'), 2016. In this episode, we cover cinéma du corps and New French Extremity, empathy and monstrosity, the horrors of being a girl, the horrors of being in a body, eating disorders, veterinary science, ‘being meat’ and becoming animal, vegan cinema, self control, desire, and what it means to be a moral cannibal — and a moral subject. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE IMAGES WE DISCUSS, as well as complete show notes, references, and suggestions for further reading. MEDIA DISCUSSED Julia Doucournau, dir., Grave (Raw) (2016) Julia Doucournau, dir., Titane (2021) Marina de Van, Dans Ma Peau (In My Skin) (2002) Eadweard Muybridge, Running (Galloping) (1878–79), animated here Horse running on a treadmill (still from Grave) Eadweard Muybridge, Male Running (1878–79) Close-up of Justine during the monkey rape discussion (still from Grave) Horse being tranquillised (still from Grave) Students crawling over ground during hazing (still from Grave) Justine eats Alex’s finger (still from Grave) Hair vomiting scene (still from Grave) ‘Two fingers will make it come up faster’ (still from Grave) Henry Van der Weyde, Patient 4, a and b (1882), image published in Sidlauskas, ‘Before and After’ (2017), courtesy of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Henry Van der Weyde, Patient 5, a and b (1882), image published in Sidlauskas, ‘Before and After’ (2017), courtesy of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia ‘C’est pas humain’ (still from Grave) Justine waking up in the blood of Adrien (still from Grave) Justine holds the rod against Alex’s head (still from Grave) Justine washes the blood off Alex (still from Grave) Justine and Alex’s faces blurring together on the prison glass (still from Grave) The father’s chest (still from Grave) Justine gets a nosebleed watching Adrien play football (still from Grave) CREDITS Follow our Twitter @drawingblood_ Follow our Bluesky @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social ‘Drawing Blood’ cover art © Emma Merkling All audio and content © Emma Merkling and Christy Slobogin Intro music: ‘There Will Be Blood’ by Kim Petras, © BunHead Records 2019. We’re still trying to get hold of permissions for this song – Kim Petras text us back!!
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • S3 Ep1: Dental Phantoms, Tooth Horror, and Medical Simulation

    S3 Ep1: Dental Phantoms, Tooth Horror, and Medical Simulation
    Apr 29 2024
    Emma and Christy look at dental phantoms — terrifying but ubiquitous tools in dental education since the nineteenth century that feature humanoid heads made out of metal or wood, and a gaping mouth full of teeth. With these objects as our starting point, we talk about why dentists and dentistry are so scary, collectors of vintage medical devices, mouth erotics, the history of simulation and ‘machines’ in medical education, ghosts of the face and the word ‘phantom’, faciality and animality, face transplants and facelessness, dental horror (particularly Little Shop of Horrors) and fetish, and teeth as ‘luxury bones.’ CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE IMAGES WE DISCUSS, as well as complete show notes, references, and suggestions for further reading. MEDIA DISCUSSED Columbia Dentoform Corp of New York, Mid-century Dental Phantom Head Model on Custom Stand (c. 1960s) Agent Gallery Chicago, ‘Dental Phantoms’ Agent Gallery Chicago, Group of Dental Phantoms, KaVo Professional Dental Phantom Simulation (twentieth century) Brian Kubasco, Steampunk Skull Dental Manikin Oxygen Version 6 (2013) Constantin Brancusi, Sleeping Muse (1910) ‘Teeth on a Stick’ Dental Phantom: E. Oswald Fergus, ‘Neue Erfindungen und Verbesserungen - Zahnaerztiliches Phantom’ (1894) ‘Skull’ Dental Phantom: Eduard Fleischer, Ein zahnaerztliches Phantom (1878) ‘Wig Maker Model’ Dental Phantom: Utrecht University Museum Collection, Phantom Head (late 1800s) ‘Realistic Face’ Dental Phantom: Utrecht University Museum Collection, Phantom Head (date unknown) ‘Realistic Face (contemporary)’ Dental Phantom: Unknown, Dental Phantom Head and Rubber Shroud (1990s) ASMR cavity removal example (2022) Example of memento mori painting: Edwaert Collier, Vanitas (1663) Fox Photos / Getty Images, ‘Two trainee dental hygienists operating on a dentist's dummy’ (1960) ‘Xenomorph’ from the film Alien (1979) ‘Demogorgon’ from the show Stranger Things (2016) Madame du Coudray, Obstetric Phantom / Machine (mid-eighteenth century) Koichi Shibata, Geburtshülfliche Taschen-Phanome (1892) Kevin James Thornton video: Tammy the Face Ghost (2024) Mark Gilbert, ‘Saving Faces’ series (1999) ORLAN, Surgical Series (1980s/1990s) Frank Oz, dir., ‘Dentist!’ from Little Shop of Horrors (1986) Gore Verbinski, dir., Dental Scene and Mouth Scene from A Cure for Wellness (2016) The animal mouth the dentist shows Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors Thomas Rowlandson, Transplanting of Teeth (1787) CREDITS Follow our Twitter @drawingblood_ Follow our Bluesky @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social ‘Drawing Blood’ cover art © Emma Merkling All audio and content © Emma Merkling and Christy Slobogin Intro music: ‘There Will Be Blood’ by Kim Petras, © BunHead Records 2019. We’re still trying to get hold of permissions for this song – Kim Petras text us back!!
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    1 hr and 2 mins
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