Come join us for a free move night at Kunsthall Trondheim Friday 3 March at 7 pm.
We will be screening Women Shamans: The ancients (2013) by historian and archaeologist Max Dashu.
In Woman Shamans, Dashu's archaeological investigations relating to female shamans are presented, revealing an unimaginably rich matriarchal past. After the screening, you can join a conversation between Max Dashu and the artist in the exhibition Kunna Guanna Concha, Elin Már Øyen Vister.
Program of the evening
6.30 pm
Doors open
7 pm – 8.15 pm
Screening of the movie
8.30 pm – 21.30 pm
Max Dashu in conversation with Elin Már Øyen Vister
Read about the film here.
Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document global women's history. She teaches with images from her collection of some 50,000 pictures, having created 150 visual talks on female cultural heritages from the paleolithic to the present. She is internationally known for her expertise on Goddess iconography; matricultures and female spheres of power; patriarchy and systems of domination; medicine women, shamans, witches, and the witch hunts. In addition to having produced the film Woman Shaman: The Ancients” (2013), she is the author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture, 700-1100 (Veleda Press, 2016) and two forthcoming volumes on women in Greek history and mythography.
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Kunna Guanna Concha's public program is curated by Sissel M. Bergh, Carolina Caycedo and Elin Már Øyen Vister in collaboration with Kunsthall Trondheim’s Program Curator Carl Martin Rosenkilde Faurby.