Linda Stupart

 ...their idea of coven is more porous and expanded to include any ally willing to participate in open performances. Stupart’s coven acts as a neo-materialistic assemblage, always in flux, open, exchanging, fusing with the other(s). [...] Stupart’s coven acts as a neo-materialistic assemblage, always in flux, open, exchanging, fusing with the other(s).

- Simon Olmett

Linda Stupart [...] casts ritual magic and witchy aesthetics as tools of queer subversion and self-care. In A Spell to Bind Straight Cis White Artists from Profiting Off of Appropriating Queer Aesthetics and Feminine Abjection (2016), Stupart conjures a safe space of sorts from a candle-lit salt circle. From personal anecdotes to an account of Ana Mendieta’s death, the artist incants tales of misogyny and heteronormativity in the art world, while a video collage plays out scenes of self-harm, floating crystals, as well as sequences of vengeful empowerment and possession in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 

Witchcraft sabotages dominant forms of being and seeing, as it ever did. If only for the duration of a performance, art works its magic.

- Gary Zhexi Zhang