Diana Policarpo: The Oracle (2020). HD film, 16:9, color, 12'28" (in loop). Produced by Kunsthall Trondheim and Galeria Municipal do Porto. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Daniel Vincent Hansen
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Historian Rune Blix Hagen in conversation with Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen, Curator Kunsthall Trondheim, on the role of the ergot mushroom in the witchcraft processes in Finnmark, Norway in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The conversation is held in Norwegian, and in relation to Diana Policarpo's exhibition Nets of Hyphae.
The conversation is published in English in the monograph on Policarpo’s work, published on the occasion of Nets of Hyphae at Kunsthall Trondheim and Galeria Municipal do Porto. The book is co-published by Galeria Municipal do Porto, Kunsthall Trondheim and Mousse Publishing, and with support from the Arts Council Norway. The exhibition was curated by Stefanie Hessler, former Director Kunsthall Trondheim.