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After a hectic few days preparation – from surveying artists who’ve worked at Medical Museion to cutting out 150 playing card sized images of art-science collaborations – I’m very much looking forward to the kick-off of The Future of Art Science Collaborations workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden tomorrow. You can read a workshop […]

I might worry a bit excessively before and be afraid that I won’t be able to give an interesting talk or teach students anything, but then while I’m doing it and afterwards I realize that I really enjoy it. Teaching. Its been a year now since the public health masters course in Public Health Science […]

As I wrote last week, Thomas and I are trying to work up a paper on the rhetoric of object agency (preliminarily entitled ‘Do Things Act?’). Here are a few thoughts from the reading process: Most reasonable and clearheaded account of object agency so far: Lambros Malafouris’ work on nonhuman agency. He has co-edited a […]

I’m preparing a grant application for the Danish Humanities Research Council, which if successful will include a PhD position in science communication/media studies. The project investigates ontologies of mind/brain in neuroscientific studies of hunger and obesity, via philosophical analysis, media studies, and exhibit making. The specific direction of the science communication/media studies PhD will be developed by the candidate within this framework. The project is […]

“En operationsscene” er titlen på den lille udstilling, som vi åbner i museets receptionslokale i morgen fredag. Ideen er egentlig ikke vores egen. Det hele kom sig af en henvendelse til vores samlingsleder Ion Meyer i forsommeren 2013. DR1ville gerne filme et indslag til udsendelsesrækken “Ved du hvem du er?”

I morgen onsdag d. 18. september er det Ask A Curator-dag. 525 museer fra 34 forskellige lande verden over vil tune ind på Twitter og følge hashtagget #AskACurator. Her kan man så stille spørgsmål til kuratorer/museumsinspektører fra et væld af forskellige museer. Måske har du et spørgsmål om ure som du kan stille til  Musée […]

”Skalpel … Krum saks … Sårhage … Sårrenser … Pincet … Suturnål … Suturtråd” [flickr id=”9736879570″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”large” group=”” align=”right”] …. synes det at lyde ud i rummet fra det store 110 x 160 cm operationsbillede med Dr. Th. Rovsing i midten flankeret af sit koncentrerede operationsteam. Det er et betagende livagtigt billede, som […]

In 2010, Thomas and I wrote a paper titled ’Do Things Talk?’, published in Susanne Lehmann-Brauns, Christian Sichau, Helmuth Trischler (eds.), The Exhibition as Product and Generator of Scholarship (the volume is available as a .pdf here). In the paper, we discussed the problems and pitfalls surrounding the still current ‘things that talk’ rhetoric. Our […]

Et af aldringsforskningens mere komplicerede emner er kompetence og kreativitet set i et livsperspektiv. Hvornår kan man “toppe” – og inden for hvad? Bibeholdes kreativiteten og energien til at tænke nyt gennem hele livet? Og hvad med udviklingen af modenhed og de egenskaber der beskrives med aldringens plusord? Center for Sund Aldring afholder en debatdag […]

How do you create a larger-than-life dress out of pills? This short film shows artist Susie Freeman of Pharmacopoeia doing just that. Knitting on her old industrial machine, comparing pill fabrics, and putting them on the dress base. Together with Dr. Liz Lee she has weaved a dress made of ten years of prescription pills […]

Datoen for vores arrangement Jeg kæmper, derfor er jeg nærmer sig. Vi glæder os til at invitere indenfor i auditoriet på Medicinsk Museion til en aften om filosofi, kampsport og livet i kroppen. Du kan bestille billetter og se praktiske detaljer her. Kamp, kamptræning og filosofi Arrangementet er en del af Golden Days festival om […]

I am currently in the process of formulating some thoughts on objects in collections (read more here and here) which I hope will coalesce into a proposal for an object-oriented exhibition.  While thinking and reading about what happens when objects are put in exhibitions, I came across a useful concept from film theory: The Kuleshov […]