By Cecilie Glerup and Nikoline Nygaard One of the outcomes of the Microbes on the Mind project is a podcast series about our relationship with microbes – more specifically those of them that either live in us or enter us through food. The journey we aim to take our...
Microbes – the podcast
Vandet er giftigt!
Da koleraepidemien ramte Danmark i 1853 var det et mysterium, hvor smitten kom fra. De fleste troede, at kolera smittede igennem luften, men karantæne foranstaltninger gjorde ingen nytte på koleraen, der ubesværet hærgede videre på trods af isolationsforanstaltninger. Først året efter kunne den engelske læge John Snow påvise, at kolera smitter igennem inficeret drikkevand.
Sonification, or, listening in wonder of the most discreet
The sonic arts have long been fascinated with accessing and revealing phenomena unavailable to direct aural perception. Seeking above, under or altogether beyond our scope of auditory perception – pursuing cries of bats, tectonic rumble, and electromagnetic fields –...
HEUNICKES SMITTEKURVE
Sundhedsminister Magnus Heunicke besøgte i sidste uge Medicinsk Museion. Her overleverede han sin grafik med den røde og grønne kurve til museets samling. Siden udbruddet af Corona har Medicinsk Museion samlet relevante objekter og historier ind. Nu bliver den...
3-year Postdoc in Science Studies – Diagnosis
We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow with a background in philosophy of science, science studies or history of science, for a project investigating diagnostic categories at the fault line between patient bodies, research labs and the clinic. Applications close 19th...
Postdoc position in art and science
Do you have a background in art history, have you worked at the intersection of art and science, or have experience with analyzing artistic practices through an interdisciplinary lens? If so, you might be the postdoc we are looking for! The postdoc will be employed as...
Online talk by Hannah Landecker on ‘Metabolism and Society’
On March 23rd, 17.15-18.00 CET, Professor Hannah Landecker of UCLA will give an online talk entitled ‘Metabolism and Society: A Short History of Mutual Transformation’. The talk is part of Metabolism Month – a weekly seminar series throughout March 2021, hosted by the...
Vi har brug for dig. Deltag i vores spørgeundersøgelse
I forbindelse med den kommende udstilling Verden er i dig har vi brug for at høre fra publikum. Hvad er forbundethed for dig? Hvor vigtig synes du, videnskab er? Foretrækker du historiske objekter eller samtidskunst?
Z-Time Online! Announcing our newest web exhibition
A reflection on curating the Z-time digital exhibition during a COVID 19 lockdown
SPYT FORBUDT!
Spyt forbudt!
Bakterier bor i spyt og kan smitte med sygdom. I dag ved vi det godt. Men i starten af 1900-tallet lærte store oplysningskampagner mod tuberkulose os at holde på mundvandet og synke spytklatten.
The Living Room at Medical Museion: A guided tour into the imaginary of the room
In this blog post, I invite you on an introductory guided tour into the conceptual imaginary of the Living Room at Medical Museion. Let me begin with a story. In 1940, a wig was donated to Medical Museion. It was the colour of strawberries and had belonged to a...
Dreaming of big noisy mushrooms: a peek into the first stages of a sonic experiment
As I attempt to grow Pink Oyster Mushrooms in my office at home (in a very low-fi DIY version) I am equally disgusted and excited by the presence of the mycelia. I have never tried growing any sort of mushroom before and the process triggers lots of questions and...
On Microperformativity: New publication between art, science and performance studies
While the Covid pandemic has made people more aware that non-human agency has a large impact on human lives, artists and performers increasingly address microscopic actors that indeed have macroscopic effects. This new publication with the international journal...
THE LIFE OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE
The life and behaviour of the infectious agent are often at the centre of scientific research on infectious disease. Currently, the structure and cycle of SARS-CoV2, the covid-19 virus, is being studied by a host of scientists attempting to locate possible sites of...
Epidemics, embodiment and Sartrean slime
The epidemic chaos, of the body, of other bodies, and of national borders, reminds us – among other things – that we are mortal, perishable. We are material bodies that are subject to the whims of nature and rely on very real structures to carry out our lives. While...
We are colonizers and colonized
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...
Writing from the Gut (Microbes)?
One of the driving questions for the Microbes on the Mind project (click here) is how we can represent a more-than-human body; how we can depict, write, feel, perhaps even hear and smell ourselves as partly microbial. We study how others have approached this...
We are making a podcast about microbes
The overall theme is to explore the role of microbes as an inherent part of our culture and everyday life. Through four themes: food, parenthood, wellbeing & health as well as microbes in art & fiction, we explore how we live with microbes, how we imagine them...
Micro Worlds Workshop
Micro Worlds is a speculative workshop, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the multiple ways in which museums and their collections can function as sites to better understand our relationship with microbial worlds. What if, we want to ask,...
Participated in the research group The Body of Animals
Max Planck institute for the history of science: The Body of Animals. I Participated in the research group The Body of Animals in 2018-2019. “Animals have been central to humans in their attempts to understand their world and in revealing the secrets of nature....
Materiality Beyond Machines: Reading Early Haraway
Last week I presented the following paper at the British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2020, as part of the ‘Materialities’ panel. Materiality beyond machines:Reading early HarawayJoana Formosinho, PhD FellowMedical Museion,...
Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care Workshop
XiSan village, Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, photo Pelin Tan, 2018 Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care is the first in an ongoing series of workshops and projects by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR) in partnership with the...
Jean Painleve: Film Screening
“Advocating the credo “science is fiction,” Painlevé managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fanworms...
Z-Time: The art and science of circadian rhythms
We are very excited to announce the launch a new pop-up display in collaboration with artist Isabella Martin called Z-Time: The art and science of circadian rhythms. This new display is an opportunity to share the process of developing a collaborative artwork...
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