Tomorrow September 21st from 12 to 14 CET you have the chance to join an online conversation event featuring Cornelia Sollfrank, Amy Whitaker, Brian Castriota, Caitlin DeSilvey and myself taking place as part of the workshop “The work of art without...
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Tuesday-Friday 10am – 4pm
Saturday-Sunday 12pm – 4pm
Monday closed
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THE WORLD IS IN YOU
30 September 2021 – 16 January 2022
An exhibition by Medical Museion at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Through science, art and culture, this exhibition project offers different perspectives on how the big world is present and shapes our bodies and daily physiological existence. The world is in You is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
CORONA WILL ALSO BE HISTORY ONE DAY
12 June 2021 – 28 August 2022
The exhibition traces threads back in time, reflecting a year with Covid-19 in the mirror of past epidemics.
THE BODY COLLECTED
Fetuses, skeletons and DNA. The exhibition presents a large selection of historical collections of human remains from the 18th century to now.
WEB EXHIBITION: LIFE SUPPORT
The web exhibition was made during the first lock down in Denmark in Spring 2020, and explores Corona life with the themes; knowing, breathing, cleaning, isloating and dying.
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Upcoming talk about curating decay in The Living Room
Curating Decay in The Living Room – Notes from an ongoing conversation
In spring 2021, Martin Grünfeld (University of Copenhagen) and Caitlin DeSilvey (University of Exeter) began a period of virtual collaboration around their shared interest in curating decay in museum contexts, with support from the Medical Museion at The University of...
Curating Time
What does time mean to you? Is it the ticking of a clock? The rhythm of a dance? The oscillation of a cell? Still from Time Animals – Isabella Martin, 2021 The prospect of curating a selection of objects and artworks on the theme of ‘time’ for The World is in...
Life on- and offline
By Joana Formosinho On July 15th, I had the pleasure of presenting a talk entitled INHABITING THE CONCEPT OF HOLOBIONT: THINKING THROUGH VISUAL IMAGERY at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology’s first...
Inhabiting the concept of holobiont: thinking through visual imagery
By Joana Formosinho On June 23th 2021, I (Joana Formosinho) had the pleasure of giving a talk at Aarhus University’s Center for Environmental Humanities. The talk was based on my research of how the rise to prominence of microbes within biology and biomedicine, as...
Microbiomic Dietary Orientations at the Chronic Living Conference
By Andréa Wiszmeg On March 4th – 6th 2021, the international conference Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century took place. As with so many other events the past year and a half the conference was an online event, however, it was an...
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