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Delphi and Delos, a Journey (last edited: 2025)

Olivia Penrose Punnett
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This video essay explores the sacred landscapes of Delphi and Delos, studying their historical significance as a centres of female knowledge, through embodied, intuitive, and affective engagement. Thinking about Ada Lovelace’s notion of poetical science, the site visits seek to trace the contextual and geographical roots of this concept. The film approaches knowledge as a sensuous, relational and embodied process, one that resists dominant rationalist and technocentric paradigms. The voiceover, recorded in Greece, threads reflections from Hélène Cixous’s The Laugh of the Medusa (1976), Karen Barad’s Diffracting Diffraction (2014), and Sasha Biro’s The Oracle as Intermediary (2022) from Otherwise Than Binary, New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture Decker, J.E., Layne, D.A. and Vilhauer, M. (2022). Through these situated readings, the film proposes curating research and thinking through place as not merely interpretive but performative: an intra-active practice between self, site, and matter. The work explores myth and reverie, positioning the body in context as instrument. It proposes an expanded curatorial methodology rooted in presence, sensual attention, and poetic science - where intuition is included, and the landscape is approached as co-creator.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsCixous, Barad, Biro, Oracle, Delphi, Delos, Antiquity, Curatorial Studies, Poetical Science, art, embodiment, Mythology, curating
date25/06/2025
last modified14/10/2025
statusin progress
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copyrightOlivia Penrose Punnett
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3773862/3773863


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