They Call Me Witch
Artist & Works
Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter


Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter is a Canadian artist-researcher whose practice explores witchcraft as feminist technofeminist science and resistance to medicalized control over deviant bodies. Working through the intertwined lineages of craft, biotechnology, and occult knowledge, she reclaims both laboratory and ritual space as sites of embodied autonomy and insurgent care. Hunter holds a PhD in Biological Art from SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia, where her research examined menstrual and stem cell biotechnologies through feminist and witch-theoretical frameworks. Her installations and biotechnical artefacts weave together blood, fibre, and cellular matter to question how technologies shape life and to propose new material ethics of becoming. Hunter has exhibited and presented internationally, including at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (UK), Art Laboratory Berlin (Germany), and Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal). She is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Simon Fraser University, developing DIY biofabrication as an act of techno-magical resistance and world-building.

website:www.whitefeatherhunter.ca
ins: @astrodesia



Palimpsest (2022)
 
Silk, embroidery floss, devil’s cherries, mandrake root, beeswax, waxed linen, projected video


Developed during Hunter’s 2022 research-creation residency at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (Cornwall, UK), Palimpsest engages with historical demonology texts from the museum’s archive to examine intersections of witchcraft, gender, and medical epistemology. The silk surface bears photochemical transfers of the original pages—“ghost pages” of demonological documentation—interlaced with embroidery and embedded botanicals historically linked to female transgression. The accompanying video alternates between these spectral inscriptions and sequences of the artist creating the work within the Boscastle landscape. Palimpsest reanimates archival material through embodied ritual, positioning technofeminist craft as resistance to biomedical control and the erasure of subjugated knowledges.



*Special thanks to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic for generously lending Palimpsest by Dr WhiteFeather Hunter for this exhibition.