2021/03/31

The Mythology Behind Tai Shani’s Witchy Online Fantasy

● 31/03/2021
“These are the Maiara, flying witches commemorated in local mythology on Alicudi, a remote Italian island historically afflicted with ergot-poisoned rye crops that, when milled and made into bread, dosed the entire starving and impoverished local populace with LSD.”
– Charlotte Gush, Senior Editor at Manchester International Festival (MFI), on the folklore that inspired artist Tai Shani’s contribution to MFI’s Virtual Factory
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