S3 Ep6: Seeing Voices, Margaret Watts Hughes, and the Science of the Invisible (00:57:57)
Emma and Christy discover Margaret Watts Hughes's beautiful 'voice figures', a series of images made through the direct action of her voice between 1885 and 1904. In this episode, we discuss the earli...
S3 Ep5: David Cronenberg's 'Crimes of the Future', Surgery, and Performance Art (01:04:20)
Emma and Christy watch David Cronenberg’s 2022 film Crimes of the Future, exploring the themes of this work while also connecting to some of the director’s earlier movies. In this episode, we discuss ...
S3 Ep4: Tattoos, 'Deviant' Signs, and Surveilled Skins (00:54:01)
Emma and Christy present a brief history of tattooing in Europe. We talk tattoos as art history; sailors and soldiers; the archival (in)visibility of tattoos; the ‘Cook myth’, colonial contact, and co...
S3 Ep3: Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo (01:03:06)
In this episode, Emma and Christy look at the complex paintings of the Spanish-Mexican Surrealist painter Remedios Varo (1908-1963). During our conversation, we discuss female alchemists, artist’s stu...
S3 Ep2: Cannibalism on Film, Empathy, and Eating Disorders (01:01:53)
Emma and Christy watch Julia Ducournau’s first feature film, the cannibal coming-of-age body horror flick 'Grave' (or 'Raw'), 2016. In this episode, we cover cinéma du corps and New French Extremity, ...
S3 Ep1: Dental Phantoms, Tooth Horror, and Medical Simulation (01:02:25)
Emma and Christy look at dental phantoms — terrifying but ubiquitous tools in dental education since the nineteenth century that feature humanoid heads made out of metal or wood, and a gaping mouth fu...
Minisode 1: Women and Early Modern Mines with Dr Gabriele Marcon (00:29:34)
Surprise — it’s a minisode! In our very first interview, historian of early modern mining Dr Gabriele Marcon (I Tatti / Harvard University) shows Emma and Christy a painting from early modern Spanish ...
S2 Ep6: Atheist Relics, Couples’ Cremation, and Victorian 'Infidels' (00:55:41)
Emma and Christy look at Alfred Gilbert's sculpture Mors Janua Vitae (c. 1905–1907) at the Royal College of Surgeons, London — a life-sized bronze which houses the remains of the couple Edward and Eli...
S2 Ep5: Morphine Addiction, Decadence & Degeneration, and Fin-de-Siècle Paris (01:03:21)
Emma and Christy use Eugène Grasset's lithograph Morphinomaniac (1897) as a starting point to talk about artistic depictions of morphine and historical opioid addiction, as well as decadence and degen...
S2 Ep4: Vegetal Agents, Plant-Human Entanglements, and Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photography (01:04:48)
Emma and Christy look at Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph 'Maud' (c. 1874) and discuss plant consciousness, agency, and erotics. In this episode, we cover tendrils and tentacles, Victorian queernes...
Taking a Short Break (00:00:28)
We will be back soon with the second half of season two!
S2 Ep3: Disability, Bad Horror, and M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’ (01:06:12)
Emma and Christy discuss M. Night Shyamalan’s 2021 film Old. We talk about what makes good (and bad) horror; harmful representations of disability in movies, art, and society; aging and chronic illnes...
S2 Ep2: Dollhouses of Death, Forensic Science, and Close Looking (01:12:04)
Emma and Christy look at Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (c. 1940s) AKA dollhouses of death. We talk Victorian children and dollplay; the origins of legal medicine; CSI as...
S2 Ep1: The Sims 4 Paranormal, Video Games and Belief, and Alternate Worlds (00:45:23)
Emma and Christy play The Sims 4 Paranormal ‘Stuff Pack’, exploring the game’s haunted house and séance aesthetics. We talk Victorian occult imaginaries, playing Sims as an emotional outlet, the promi...
S1 Ep6: Human Remains in Museum Collections, Care, and Contemporary Art (00:59:02)
Emma and Christy look at the ethics, politics, and practice of displaying human remains — from museum collections of mummies to photographs of dead bodies. We talk bog bodies, the rights of the dead, ...
S1 Ep5: Cosmas and Damian, The Miracle of the Black Leg, and Transplant Histories (00:50:13)
Emma and Christy explore the story of surgeon-saints Cosmas and Damian through paintings of the ‘miracle of the black leg’ from c. 1370-1495 in Italy and Spain. These pictures bring up complicated ide...
S1 Ep4: Nationalism, Folk Horror, and the Ecopolitics of ‘Midsommar’ (01:05:32)
Emma and Christy look at Ari Aster’s 2019 folk horror film Midsommar and talk environmentalism, nationalism, community, grief, horror (obviously), folk art, facial transplants, whiteness, screaming, a...
S1 Ep3: Andy Warhol’s Noses, Capitalism & Race, and the Art of Plastic Surgery (00:52:26)
Emma and Christy discuss surgical and cultural ideas embedded in Andy Warhol’s series of Before and After paintings (1961/62) of a nose job. In this episode we talk plastic surgery and big egos, the b...
S1 Ep2: Ectoplasmic Touch, Margery Crandon, and Science in the Séance Room (00:59:36)
Emma and Christy look at archival photographs from the séances of Mina 'Margery' Crandon (around 1925) and talk slimy protrusions, sex, scientific photography, the testing of mediums, and the science ...
S1 Ep1: Severed Breasts, Lee Miller, and Surrealist Photography (00:46:47)
Emma and Christy look at Lee Miller’s photographs Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting I) and (II) (c. 1929) and talk about double mastectomies, fragmented bodies, feminist...
S1 Ep1: Intro: Drawing Blood (00:03:25)
Emma and Christy introduce ‘Drawing Blood’, a podcast about art, science, and the macabre.
‘Drawing Blood’ was made possible by funding from the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network. Follow ...
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