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Update (and Hello!)
You've likely noticed that we've been on bit of a hiatus - but we're still committed to the Drawing Blood project and we're hoping to come back with a new season soon! In the meantime, we're on the…
S3E6 S3 Ep6: Seeing Voices, Margaret Watts Hughes, and the Science of the Invisible
Emma and Christy discover Margaret Watts Hughes's beautiful 'voice figures', a series of images made through the direct action of her voice between 1885 and 1904. In this episode, we discuss the…
S3E5 S3 Ep5: David Cronenberg's 'Crimes of the Future', Surgery, and Performance Art
Emma and Christy watch David Cronenberg’s 2022 film Crimes of the Future, exploring the themes of this work while also connecting to some of the director’s earlier movies. In this episode, we discuss…
S3E4 S3 Ep4: Tattoos, 'Deviant' Signs, and Surveilled Skins
Emma and Christy present a brief history of tattooing in Europe. We talk tattoos as art history; sailors and soldiers; the archival (in)visibility of tattoos; the ‘Cook myth’, colonial contact, and…
S3E3 S3 Ep3: Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo
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…
S3E2 S3 Ep2: Cannibalism on Film, Empathy, and Eating Disorders
Emma and Christy watch 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,…
S3E1 S3 Ep1: Dental Phantoms, Tooth Horror, and Medical Simulation
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…
Minisode 1: Women and Early Modern Mines with Dr Gabriele Marcon
Surprise — it’s a minisode! In our very first interview, historian of early modern mining Dr Gabriele Marcon (I Tatti / Harvard University) shows Emma and Christy a painting from early modern Spanish…
S2E6 S2 Ep6: Atheist Relics, Couples’ Cremation, and Victorian 'Infidels'
Emma and Christy look at Alfred Gilbert's sculpture Mors Janua Vitae (c. 1905–1907) at the Royal College of Surgeons, London — a life-sized bronze which houses the remains of the couple Edward and…
S2E5 S2 Ep5: Morphine Addiction, Decadence & Degeneration, and Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Emma and Christy use Eugène Grasset's lithograph Morphinomaniac (1897) as a starting point to talk about artistic depictions of morphine and historical opioid addiction, as well as decadence and…
S2E4 S2 Ep4: Vegetal Agents, Plant-Human Entanglements, and Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photography
Emma and Christy look at Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph 'Maud' (c. 1874) and discuss plant consciousness, agency, and erotics. In this episode, we cover tendrils and tentacles, Victorian…
Taking a Short Break
We will be back soon with the second half of season two!
S2E3 S2 Ep3: Disability, Bad Horror, and M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’
Emma and Christy discuss M. Night Shyamalan’s 2021 film Old. We talk about what makes good (and bad) horror; harmful representations of disability in movies, art, and society; aging and chronic…
S2E2 S2 Ep2: Dollhouses of Death, Forensic Science, and Close Looking
Emma and Christy look at Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (c. 1940s) AKA dollhouses of death. We talk Victorian children and dollplay; the origins of legal medicine; CSI…
S2E1 S2 Ep1: The Sims 4 Paranormal, Video Games and Belief, and Alternate Worlds
Emma and Christy play The Sims 4 Paranormal ‘Stuff Pack’, exploring the game’s haunted house and séance aesthetics. We talk Victorian occult imaginaries, playing Sims as an emotional outlet, the…
S1E6 S1 Ep6: Human Remains in Museum Collections, Care, and Contemporary Art
Emma and Christy look at the ethics, politics, and practice of displaying human remains — from museum collections of mummies to photographs of dead bodies. We talk bog bodies, the rights of the dead,…
S1E5 S1 Ep5: Cosmas and Damian, The Miracle of the Black Leg, and Transplant Histories
Emma and Christy explore the story of surgeon-saints Cosmas and Damian through paintings of the ‘miracle of the black leg’ from c. 1370-1495 in Italy and Spain. These pictures bring up complicated…
S1E4 S1 Ep4: Nationalism, Folk Horror, and the Ecopolitics of ‘Midsommar’
Emma and Christy look at Ari Aster’s 2019 folk horror film Midsommar and talk environmentalism, nationalism, community, grief, horror (obviously), folk art, facial transplants, whiteness, screaming,…
S1E3 S1 Ep3: Andy Warhol’s Noses, Capitalism & Race, and the Art of Plastic Surgery
Emma and Christy discuss surgical and cultural ideas embedded in Andy Warhol’s series of Before and After paintings (1961/62) of a nose job. In this episode we talk plastic surgery and big egos, the…
S1E2 S1 Ep2: Ectoplasmic Touch, Margery Crandon, and Science in the Séance Room
Emma and Christy look at archival photographs from the séances of Mina 'Margery' Crandon (around 1925) and talk slimy protrusions, sex, scientific photography, the testing of mediums, and the science…
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