If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause
and are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine (Italian edition) featured several
of the above artists in an article about this
museum and menstruation in 2003. The newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna
magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine Dishy (Turkey) showed some of
the artists in 2005 in articles about this museum.
 
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The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
"Mandragora menstrvalis"
"Vvlva dropping and reflected"
Opera Sangvinea
Dessovs vne Lvne Menstrvel
Ta Vvlve mon calice sacreé.
Mon vin Ton Sang.
De Toi j'ai été Vampir,
O Lvne Menstrvel de ma Nvit Satvrniènne!
Vnder a Menstrval Moon
Yovr Vvlva my sacred chalice.
My wine Yovr Blood.
Of Yov I were Vampire,
Oh Menstrval Moon of my Satvrnine Night!
Poem, translation and drawings by Maldoror Capvt Corvi, who writes,
This is part of an alchemical artwork project. The Menstrval drawing
and poem are part of a Work called Opera Sangvinea (a Work of Blood)
concerning the Red stage in the alchemical process, known as the Rvbedo
stage, Red Dawn or Avrora Consvrgens. This red stage of the alchemical process
is symbolized by Venvs, the Morning Star, the Dawn. The Avrora or the Red
Dawn becames after the Night. Satvrnine Night or the Nigredo (Blackness)
is the stage, in the same alchemical process, that preceeds the Rvbedo or
the Red Dawn. Satvrnine becavse, in alchemy, Satvrn is a symbol of Death
and Melancholy. This is a stage of Death also called Pvtrefaction, Mortification
and Raven's Head, symbolized by the Black Svn and the Raven. Opera Nigra
is, so, the name of the Art prodvction that becames before the Opera
Sangvinea or Opera Rvbea. These artwork projects make part of
a global project of Arts called PVTREFACTIO - mvsic (hermetic), live performance,
video, painting, drawing, poetry - .
The sovnd projects: Ipse Morietvr; Satvrnsk¦ Ensemble;
Capvt Corvi; Nox Satvrnii; Datvra Stramonivm. I prefer to call it hermetic
mvsic, or satvrnine mvsic, although some define it as contemporary
experimental mvsic; obscvre ritval mvsic; death-indvstrial and even anti-mvsic.
Mvsical instrvments are anti-conventional, like sickles, as an example.
The sickle is connotated with Satvrn (who always has one in his hand).
The artist added, "I am from Satvrn bvt I live in Lisbon, Portvgal."
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If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and
are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
See
also Bea Nettles' art The Moonsisters
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