![]() ![]() Spong is based in the United Kingdom, where her recent practice has orientated towards the women she refers to as ‘mystic writers’. I had searched online using the University directory-Spong’s name produced a long list including entries about dance, the Walters Prize, art in the Asia-Pacific region, and books published through her dealer gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau. ![]() They offer a warm greeting, and I repeat the thesis title: “‘Scirinz (a running sore): particular and ecstatic scripts of the body by mystic women in the Middle Ages and early Modern Europe’. ![]() The university librarian wears a Breakers jersey and a cap that reads Aotearoa. The books aren’t chained here, locked to the shelves as they were in monastic libraries, or cursed at the final page of inscription. It’s the thought that carries me into the General Library of the University of Auckland. LIBRARIANS WERE MONKS in medieval Europe. ![]()
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