COVEN

COVEN is a multi-phase research project by Tessa Hall and Júlia Rúbies Subirós, taking as its point of departure the Malleus Maleficarum (1486), a theological and legal manual that played a significant role in constructing and disseminating the figure of the witch during the European witch hunts. Unfolding across three phases (page, podcast and stage) the project investigates how figures of alterity are constructed, how narratives circulate, and how forms of knowledge and social control become legitimised. Its first phase is dedicated to historiographical research and writing practices. This will later develop into a series of experimental podcasts exploring voice, transmission and belief, before choreographically expanding into a 'performative podcast'. Across these different forms, COVEN remains rooted in a practice in which dance, text, voice and sound become ways of organising bodies, materials, and processes of cultural transmission.