Judith Noble

In the installation Waster Into Wine (ICA and touring, 1980), 28 women explored and recorded the links between their experience of menstruation, the moon, dreams, body magic and related ideas. My contribution examines Water Into Wine and its hinterland from forty years on and my subsequent explorations in both art and ritual of the importance and power of menstruation and menstrual blood within my art-magical practice.

Judith Noble is Professor of Film and the Occult at Arts University Plymouth (UK) and an artist-magician. Her research focuses on avantgarde/ artists’ film and Surrealism, and she has published on Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Derek Jarman and women surrealists. She works in moving image, image+text and latterly with assemblage and textiles. Her first widely exhibited artwork was Water Into Wine (1980). much of her work is based around women’s bodily magic. Current practice is made using possession and trance walking techniques.