In 2026, Wendy Wuyts is working with Lisa Sattell (Meadowverse LCC) and Louise McCulloch (Trinity College Dublin) on a project, which can be seen as a first step or preparation of a bigger co-creation project, hopefully for 2028-203?. On this page, you can follow the progress.
Digging into contemporary and old myths from Ireland
Myth-ecology, technology and hydrofeminism in Ireland: Púca in The Machine
three artists explore the more-than-human beneath poulaphuca reservoir, wicklow, 2021-22 In Ireland, ancient myths and modern machines coalesce, manifesting a unique myth-ecology, a narrative bridge spanning the past’s spiritual fervor and the present’s technological vigor. At the heart of this interplay lies the Púca, a renowned shape-shifting trickster from Celtic folklore. This creature was believed to bring both fortune and chaos to those it encountered. Meet a púca: Hydrofeminism With the advent of technology, our global waterscape is undergoing dramatic shifts, challenging the age-old boundaries between land, sea, and sky. In response, the academic and ecological world has introduced the concept…
Skipping International Women’s Day, Rewilding St Patrick’s Day instead
Bringing Back the Snakes and Wild Waters to Ireland Every year as Saint Patrick’s Day approaches, I find myself thinking about snakes. Not the symbolic ones we are told were driven out of Ireland by Saint Patrick, but the ones that live in stories. The serpents that wind through rivers and wells, the water snakes that appear in mythologies across the world, guardians of springs and thresholds between worlds. And I wonder: what if the story of driving out the snakes is not something to celebrate, but something to rethink? The Legend of the Missing Snakes According to legend, Saint Patrick banished all…
The link between Ireland and my own birth region: Flanders
I noticed that Irish stories and projects have let me re-think stories in Flanders differently. As one of my big passion projects is to make an ecomythology for Flanders, perhaps one of the most disenchanted and urbanized places in the world, I see that I often have to go to other countries to find crumbs or new goggles that help me to speculate what might have been lost in Flanders, or to identify similar stories that are hidden and often almost lost.
Dimpna, a story about an uprooted Irish princess rerooting in Flanders, and a 6 centuries old method of care for the mental ill
On a July day, in 2021, I was in Geel, with a fellow offspring of a witch that did not get burned in the 17th century, to “dig up some bones”. That’s what we call our project to look for the sites of local ancient stories. Geel is a town in the Campine (Kempen) which is known for the pioneering de-institutionalized method of care for the mentally ill. This practice is based on the positive effects…
A Flemish ghost in the throat: Imagining who Cathelyne van den Bulcke was
One week earlier, I walked with S., a friend, in the Flemish town Lier, once a rich city with Game of Thrones intrigues. The city has installed a walking tour, with different stops and QR codes, to learn more about the witches that were burnt, and in particular Cathelyne, the last woman was burned as a witch in Lier. When we were at the first stop, the old market square, we were surrounded by a fair…
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