This residency will support my investigation into esoteric ritual practices in ancient Athens as counter-hegemonic systems of knowledge. Focusing on curse-writing, magical technologies, and the witch as a transgressive figure, my research examines how ritual operated as a form of embodied resistance. I will produce sculptural works employing historically significant materials—wax, lead, ceramic—drawn from Greek magical traditions. This inquiry situates esoteric practice within feminist and queer epistemologies to interrogate power, relationality, and non-binary subjectivity across temporal and cultural registers.
