What does the body remember when archives fall silent?

12.02.2026

“DIE KULTHEXE” is an interdisciplinary artistic research project exploring ritual body knowledge – movements that may never have been written down and yet have been passed on. Through glances. Through gestures. Through breath. Through cycles.

Between the 15th and 18th centuries, hundreds of thousands of people – predominantly women – were persecuted, tortured, and executed as witches. With them, not only individual lives were destroyed, but also knowledge: healing knowledge. knowledge of nature. cyclical knowledge. communal embodied practices.

We ask ourselves:

What remains of this?

What traces do we carry in our bodies?

And how can suppressed knowledge be brought back into movement?

Our project understands the body as a living archive – as a vessel, a landscape, a space of resonance. For us, rituals are not folkloric images of the past, but embodied forms of knowledge. They connect body, earth, community, and resistance.

“DIE KULTHEXE” is a trinational research project between Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Artistic perspectives from these three countries flow into the process and enter into dialogue with one another.

We work between archive and studio, between literature and physical practice. A central part of our research involves traveling to places where history, landscape, and cultural memory intersect.

Together, we explore how suppressed ritual movement practices can be translated into contemporary choreographic forms – not as historical reconstruction, but as a present-day embodied inquiry.

For us, the witch is not a mythical figure.She is a projection surface – for empowerment, for resilience, for earth-connected embodiment.

This blog accompanies our process.

We share texts, fragments, images, videos, voices, and movements.

No final answers – but an ongoing search.

for you, my witch.