aesthetics

In my previous blog post, I invited you on a virtual conceptual tour into the imaginary of The Living Room. Today I wish to dwell on the conception of care at museums and propose extending our sense of what it means to care beyond our inclinations to save at all costs. 

New publication between art, science and performance studies.

The journal Performance Studies has a call out for a special issue on ‘Microperformativity’, edited by Jens Hauser, international curator and researcher at Museion, and Lucie Strecker. The deadline for one-page proposals is September 2nd. CLICK HERE FOR THE CALL What is microperformativity? In simple terms, it invites us to consider what performance means when […]

Are our thoughts and feelings really our own? Take part in a creative writing course at Medical Museion to explore how the written word might engage with ‘gut thinking’. Recent research into the human microbiome suggests that the trillions of microbes that inhabit our guts are not just crucial for digestion – they may also […]

‘Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are’. o proclaims Brillat-Savarin famously in 1825.

A week into my most recent spell as director at Medical Museion and it is clear that May 2018 will be a hectic month – mixing new public exhibitions, a conference on an unusual approaches to research and a major new collections project.

For Culture Night 2016 at Medical Museion we made a poetic survey in collaboration with the author Merete Helle Pryds, which questioned peoples understandings of the relationship between feelings, body, food and digestion. As a part of the survey we asked people to draw where in the body they experience their emotions. We received 435 […]

For Culture Night 2016 at Medical Museion we made a poetic survey in collaboration with the author Merete Helle Pryds, which questioned peoples understandings of the relationship between feelings, body, food and digestion. As a part of the survey we asked people to draw where in the body they experience their emotions. We received 435 […]