Cinematic scene using troubadour elements

Troubadour

Troubadour introduction I have been drawn to various ‘figures’ from narrative sources as a means of contextualising artistic practices in a slightly ‘colourful’ way. I have consistently drawn on the implications of the coyote trickster figure, albeit reconfigured as the Hermetic. According to Michel Serres, the troubadour is also a figure that, like trickster (or […]

Cinematic scene using opossum elements

Opossum

Opossum introduction I have tried to gather trickster stories from most of the geographies with which I have had close relations. One of these is Mexico. Here opossum –or tlacuache – in folk tales is a trickster figure, but what interests me is that tlacuache is a rare female trickster. The speculation for this ‘deviation’ […]