Inspired by the practice research model developed by artist and philosopher Adrien Piper in the work Food for Spirits (1971) she is going to apply it to this week-long residency in Norwich from the 15th to the 21st of June. The residency consists of a week of silence to concentrate my attention on the book Revelations of Divine Love written by Julian of Norwich. This is the earliest surviving book in the English language explicitly known to have been written by a woman.

The objective is to write a speculative dialogue between myself and Julian of Norwich on womanhood, the body, spirituality, liberation and the ordinary.

By engaging with a ritualistic set of daily instructions she will listen the unique voice of Julian, a medieval anchorite, mystic and female seeker. I see this as ancestral work, a process of listening to her through attendance and dreaming practices. Day and night dreaming are indeed treated as research methodology and method.

The project responds to the invitation by Dr Cormac Power - Assistant Professor in Arts and Environment at Northumbria University -  to write a chapter for the collection Performance, Faith and the Ordinary to be published with Routledge. An adapted version of the chapter will be performed in 2027, details tbc.

On Friday 13th December 2024 the Weavers brought our Into the Wyld journey at the Williamson Art Gallery to a spellbinding close.

Performed by Silvia Battista, Amodali and Alice Colquhoun with costumes by Nick Ball, this remarkable shared event fulfilled the end of the cycle of Sir Gawain’s rite of passage in a celebration of the feminine and masculine powers finally coming together – in the depth of winter and in the heat of the underworld.

In what was a truly unique experience, the theatrical, the ritualistic and the ceremonial were carefully crafted through sound, voice, storytelling and presence.