Lucile Olympe Haute’s work combines spirituality, new technologies, and radical politics to advance ethical ways of being in the world. Key to her practice is that any ethical system must extend to the more-than-human worlds—including those of plants, animals, and even the bacteria that live in our bodies—on which our lives depend.
In 2017, the artist gathered together four friends who each identify as witches, even though each of them defines the term very differently. Together, they performed a ritual with the aim of finding common ground. This was the precursor to the Cyberwitches Manifesto, written two years later, which likewise aims to bring diverse constituencies of witches together around shared principles and to connect three areas that are usually considered separately: spirituality, politics, and technology. Featuring quotes from activists, hackers, and thinkers, it represents a call for living together consciously and with commitment.
