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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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🚨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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Love talking about Cronenberg with @emmamerkling.bsky.social 🥰 Listen to the new Drawing Blood episode, watch Crimes of the Future, and let me know your thoughts!!

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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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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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New ep of @drawingbloodpod.bsky.socialopen.spotify.com/episode/0ZtD...

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.
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 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.
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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Episode 2 of Season 3 has dropped!! 'Cannibalism on Film, Empathy, and Eating Disorders' In this episode, we discuss 'Grave (Raw)', a 2016 film by Julia Ducournau - a French body horror film in which a vegetarian veterinary medicine student devolves into cannibalism.

Movie poster for 'Grave,' with the film title in red at the bottom of the poster. With a yellow background, the focus is on a young girl's face. She looks intensely upwards, with her face tilted downwards, with her left nostril dripping blood.
The same young white woman as the first image is bleeding from her left nostril, holding her hand in front of her face. She looks up through her lashes. The title of the film is 'RAW' in white serif font, with 'WHAT ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR?' beneath it.
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Are you afraid of the dentist? Do teeth freak you out? In this brand new episode, "Dental Phantoms, Tooth Horror, and Medical Simulation," we look at the long history of dental phantoms (pictured here) to figure out the root of some of those fears. drawingbloodpod.com/dental-phant...

Dental phantom. A head (half silver metal from the nose up; half dentures) on a metal rod and base. There are some fillings visible in the white teeth in the pink gums of the dentures. The nose, ears, and eyebrows are gestured at but not delineated in the metal.
Dental phantom. Teeth inserted into a metal jaw placed into a wooden head (like one used to hold a wig). Held by a metal rod. Teeth in this dental phantom can be seen to be missing and broken.
Dental phantom. This one is missing all teeth in the jaw, but is framed with a more 'realistic' face, which is painted with blue eyes, ginger eyebrows and eyelashes, white skin, and curly brown hair.
Dental phantom. Hyperreal face from the nose down (white, rubbery skin) with mouth wide open and a front tooth missing. The top of the head is not delineated realistically, and is made with a flat white material. The head is resting against a dark blue padded headrest, and is mounted on a metal rod.
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While we're planning season 3 of Drawing Blood, we wanted to bring some other history of science & med art historians to the podcast. Learn about early modern mines, the women who worked (or didn't work!) them, and how blood, alchemy, and the occult all fits into the story!! 🩸

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Surprise - it's a minisode! Minisode 1 - Women and Early Modern Mines with Dr Gabriele Marcon We talk women, mining, menstrual blood, midwifery, and (?) Mount Rushmore in this episode. Dig in (ha) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! drawingbloodpod.com/women-and-ea...

A lavish Baroque religious painting in an ornate gold frame. At the center is a blood red mountain - this forms the "body" of the Virgin Mary, although you can only see her face and her hands protruding from the mountain. Around her men kneeling - seemingly saints, kings, angels, and religious figures such as bishops. A sun and a moon are on either side of the mountain / Mary. A blue empty-looking globe is at the bottom of the painting and a dove is at the top.
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Surprise - it's a minisode! Minisode 1 - Women and Early Modern Mines with Dr Gabriele Marcon We talk women, mining, menstrual blood, midwifery, and (?) Mount Rushmore in this episode. Dig in (ha) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! drawingbloodpod.com/women-and-ea...

A lavish Baroque religious painting in an ornate gold frame. At the center is a blood red mountain - this forms the "body" of the Virgin Mary, although you can only see her face and her hands protruding from the mountain. Around her men kneeling - seemingly saints, kings, angels, and religious figures such as bishops. A sun and a moon are on either side of the mountain / Mary. A blue empty-looking globe is at the bottom of the painting and a dove is at the top.
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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
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