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A podcast about art & visual culture, the histories of science & medicine, and the macabre. Hosted by Christy Slobogin (@slobogin.bsky.social) and Emma Merkling (@emmamerkling.bsky.social)
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You can listen at the links below, or directly on our website (drawingbloodpod.com/seeing-voice...), where you will also find the carousel of all images we discuss. The original Watts Hughes 'voice figures' images come from Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery.

Seeing Voices, Margaret Watts Hughes, and the Science of the Invisible
Seeing Voices, Margaret Watts Hughes, and the Science of the Invisible

Season 3, Episode 6 Margaret Watts Hughes, ‘Impression Figure’ (c. 1904)Margaret Watts Hughes, ‘Tree Form’ (before 1904)Portrait miniature example: Nicholas Hilliard, &#8216…

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...cat pianos, seaweed scrapbooks, women in STEM, logos and the word of God, visualising the invisible, the Little Mermaid, clairvoyant research, Annie Besant, ‘thought forms’ and the death agonies of pigeons, science and feeling, and why sonic media is always already haunted... (contd.)

Detail from Van Eyck's Annunciation, with ornate gold letters going between the angel and the Virgin Mary.
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT🚨 join us to discover the strange & beautiful creations of Welsh singer Margaret Watts Hughes, made by the direct action of her voice c.1885–1904. We discuss early sound recordings, scientific ‘instruments’ (it’s a pun), occult science, Bell's severed ear... (contd.)

A nautical-looking abstract artwork in an ochre yellow.
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Our new Cronenberg ep is out! In 'David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future", Surgery, and Performance Art,' we get into body horror, surgery as sex, cyborgs, the cosmetic gaze, and meaning making (and more!!) Have a listen and let us know what you think drawingbloodpod.com/david-cronen...

Movie poster for David Cronenberg's 2022 film Crimes of the Future. A dark red background with portions of the faces of Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen, and Lea Seydoux. Blow is Mortensen in a semi-organic walnut-looking bed-like object, with tendrils reaching down and attaching to him.
A still from David Cronenberg's 2022 film Crimes of the Future. A man in black underwear stands with his arms by his sides. His eyes and mouth are sewn up, and he has ears sprouting from all over his body - head, arms, chest, and legs.
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New episode on tattoos!! In episode 4 of season 3, we discuss the material and visual culture of tattooing (example in image below), the art history of tattoos, contagion and pathologization, and criminal anthropology. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!! drawingbloodpod.com/tattoos-devi...

Tattoos, ‘Deviant’ Signs, and Surveilled Skins
Tattoos, ‘Deviant’ Signs, and Surveilled Skins

Season 3, Episode 4 'Human skin with tattoos of two women's heads and a sailor', French (1880–1920), Wellcome Museum Collection (The Science Museum, London)Gustave Caillebotte, 'Rue de Paris, temps de...

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Enjoy a sampling of the weird, wonderful, enigmatic, and gorgeous paintings of Remedios Varo: 1. "The Useless Science, or, The Alchemist" 2. "Harmony" 3. "Creation of the Birds" 4. "Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst (Could Be Juliana)"

A figure draped in black and white fabric that fades into a black and white checkered floor. They turn a wheel that connects to a contraption in a house in the background. The contraption seemst o take in rainwater and distill it into small bottles.
A androgynous figure sits in a study-like room with blue walls and high ceilings putting objects (like crystals and plants) on a musical stave. A feminine figure emerges from the wall to also place objects on the stave. Another stave is being tended to by a masculine-coded figure in the back right of the scene.
An owl-human hybrid paints with a bird on paper that then transforms into a real bird though the light that the owl-human figure is refracting through a triangle glass. An alchemical contraption is squirting out red, blue, and yellow paint onto the owl-human's palette.
A woman with white hair that floats out in two horn-like protrusions and wearing a green cloak with a face in it exits a door holding a man's head in her left hand and a basket in her right hand. The man's head has a long beard, and the woman holds him disdainfully by the tip of the beard. She appears to be about to drop him into a circular pool of water in the courtyard she's in.
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We've published a brand new ep!! "Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo" explores female alchemists, science and occultism, Carl Jung and esotericism in psychoanalysis, the Fourth Dimension, and alchemical androgyny. (And more!!) Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/0ZtD...

S3 Ep3: Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo
S3 Ep3: Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo

Listen to this episode from Drawing Blood on Spotify. In this episode, Emma and Christy look at the complex paintings of the Spanish-Mexican Surrealist painter Remedios Varo (1908-1963). During our co...

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Drawing Blood Podcast
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social
A podcast about art & visual culture, the histories of science & medicine, and the macabre. Hosted by Christy Slobogin (@slobogin.bsky.social) and Emma Merkling (@emmamerkling.bsky.social)
43 followers11 following17 posts