Critical Writing Index

After the Witch of Malleghem

by Jenn E Norton

Public, 2024, no. 69, p. xxx

Toronto: Public Access, 2024

ISSN 08454450

"This augmented-reality pop-up print remediates The Witch of Malleghem, a 1559 image by Pieter Brueghel the Elder depicting a witch and her assistants removing "stones of madness" from the villagers' head. Through dramatic re-enactments and re-animations of the figures in this work, we reflect on the visual rhetoric used to de-legitamize healing practices outside of the dominant patriarchal religious/medical establishment in Europe during that period. This piece was created for The Witch Institute at Queen's University in 2021 with support from the Queen's Arts Fund." (p. xxx)

Includes a QR code to access AR content.

ITEM 2024.046 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

After the Witch of MalleghemJenn E Norton, Emily Pelstring, Edie Soleil