Tine Friis

Text as technology for care and understanding is an upcoming PhD course, asking what ‘text’ is, and how and when ‘text’ matters in practices of education, medicine, care, hybrid art, exhibitions and research. To explore these questions and their implications, we bring together interdisciplinary perspectives to problematize text as technology. The PhD course takes place […]

What happens when we talk about the connection between our gut and psyche? How might such ‘articulations’ change the ways we understand the body, self and health? How can writing down personal memories help us experiment with ‘body talk’? Sign-up here before June 2, 2021 to participate in the research project. PhD student Tine Friis […]

You are a colonizer – and so am I Look around you. What did you touch before opening this blogpost? What are you touching at this very moment? Perhaps you are sitting on a chair, leaning up against a wall, touching your phone or typing on the keyboard in front of your computer. Microbes on […]

In August 2020, I will be presenting a paper on performative experimentation and collective memory-work at the digital conference Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds. The conference is organized by The European association for the study of science and technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science […]

Microbes on the Mind co-organizes a panel at the international conference on Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century*. The panel organizers are Adam Bencard and Louise Whiteley from Medical Museion and CMBR, University of Copenhagen and Andrea Butcher, Jose Cañada and Salla Sariola from University of Helsinki. The title of the […]

This invitation to my colleagues in Microbes on the Mind kicked off two workshops with the method memory-work. The workshop course was a test-run of the memory-work method, an experiment and an engagement with Medical Museion’s exhibition Mind the Gut.

Bring your own human. This was the instruction (and name) for our workshop in September 2019. It is a simple, short and sophisticated instruction. As soon as you start thinking more about what to do, several questions quickly loom over you. Are you going to bring a fully-grown human or a human that just started walking on its own? Will you bring an entire human or maybe just a microbe on its pinky finger? Maybe you would rather like to convey a feeling of being human or let your audience become aware of the fact that they are humans experiencing right now.

Råber dine tarme ’stop’ i stressede perioder? Svinger dit humør i takt med, at dine tarme laver knuder på sig selv? Bliv medforsker i dine oplevelser og mavefornemmelser, og del erfaringer og nysgerrighed med andre. Frist for at tilmelde sig forskningsprojektet er d. 20. februar 2020. Ph.d.-studerende Tine Friis rekrutterer deltagere til sin forskning på […]

An international conference on ‘Chronic living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century‘ will take place in Copenhagen 23-25 April 2020. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 November 2019. Medical Museion participates with a panel on ‘Living with microbes’. CLICK HERE FOR THE CALL Despite advances in medical treatments and technologies, many people […]