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My GP once told me I suffer from ‘conscious hypochondria’ — every cough, every bout of fever, is a source of great anxiety. So maybe it would help me to attend the afternoon symposium on ‘Culture and Hypochondria’ at Tate Britain, London, on Friday 18 September 2009. The speakers — Julia Borossa, Steven Connor, Brian Dillon, […]

A year ago, Adam and I made fun of the tendency in the humanities and social sciences to invent ‘turns’ — the linguistic turn, the bodily turn, etc. (see earlier posts here and here). But some ‘turns’ are more justified than others. Melissa Littlefield at the University of Illinois and Jenell Johnson at the Louisiana State University have […]

I sidste uge modtog Medicinsk Museion meddelelsen om at professor emeritus Torben Schiødt døde d. 12.august, 83 år gammel. Torben Schiødt var gennem en længere årrække en trofast støtte for museet og tilknyttet dels som konsulent og dels som gæstekurator. Torben Schiødt var professor i patologisk anatomi (læren om sygdomsforandringer i organer og væv i […]

Vi skal jo snart have vores egen kunstperformance her på Medicinsk Museion, hvor publikum får mulighed for at se kunstneren Philip Warnells indre (læs mere om det her). Men der er også en anden udstilling i København for tiden, der tager publikum med under huden. Udstillingen har titlen “AUTOPSI – mere end 500 anskuelsestavler” og […]

Bloggen om hjerneforskning i medierne fik mine tanker tilbage til Holbæk Museums Corpus Culturae-udstilling, som jeg har skrevet om i en tidligere blog. Apropos hjerneforskning, så havde Corpus Culturae udstillingen nemlig en forholdsvis stor afdeling om frenologi, en lære fra 1800-tallet, der gik ud fra, at hjernen var inddelt i forskellige områder, der hver svarede […]

Yesterday, Vancouver-based writer and curator Robin Laurence wrote a persuasive plaidoyer for post-postmodern art, which I believe has some implications for the understanding of bioart in museums (I’ve been musing about bioart in sci/tech/med museums before). Laurence identifies a movement of “emerging and established artists who are working with found and salvaged materials, discarded objects […]

Haidy Geismar’s post on ‘significant objects’ gave me an idea for a curatorial game that might increase the awareness of the importance of the material culture and aesthetics of biomedicine and biotechnology: ask a faculty member/graduate student/technician to choose a favourite biomedical object, i.e., an object which is of some significance for them personally, workwise or otherwise. the […]

Billedet her er taget i udstillingsrummet med titlen Koldt og godt fra vores nye særudstilling Del og hel. Brudstykker fra biomedicinens tid, hvor et komplet køleanlæg er opstillet. Museets gæster er velkomne til at gå indenfor og på egen krop mærke, hvordan det er at være vævsprøve i en biobank. Før sommerferien havde udstillingsgruppens Martha Fleming og Søren Bak-Jensen inviteret journalisten […]

Come to Copenhagen and watch UK-based artist Phillip Warnell’s intestines from the inside on Sunday 13 September. The performance will take place in the old anatomical theatre at Medical Museion at 2 pm. Phillip will swallow a pill camera that is going to send images to a screen — allowing you to follow its way through his intestinal system. London-based consultant […]

First of all, the title makes it sound worse than it really is. Actually this is just a little follow-up to Thomas’ and Adam’s posts about medical board– and computer games. This time though, the roles have been reversed. In Crazy Monkey Games‘ nifty (and free!) little game Pandemic 2, you take on the role of […]

Programmet for dette års Golden Days festival, der bliver afviklet 11. – 18. september, er netop blevet offentliggjort på festivalens nyindrettede hjemmeside.  Med overskriften: Kroppens præstationer – Verdensmestre, hvepsetaljer og viagra er årets tema er kroppen, og festivalen præsenterer det selv således:        Årets tema går på tværs af kronologien, og her er plads til både […]

The program for the Artefacts meeting at Science Museum, 20-22 September, has been finalised. It looks great! Medical Museion’s former senior curator Søren Bak-Jensen (now at the Copenhagen City Museum) will present some of the ideas behind the current exhibition ‘Split+Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine’. Here is the whole list of papers for the meeting: Bruce […]