Tomorrow June 10th from 11 to 13 you have the chance to join a conversation event taking place online as part of the Future Urban Legacy Lab online discussion series at Politechnico di Torino. Together with Caitlin DeSilvey, I will discuss our collaborative work on...
Upcoming online talk: Curating Decay in The Living Room
Multiplying our senses of caring at the museum: Saving, nurturing and beyond
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...
Digital eventserie: Medicin til den forbundne krop
Vores kroppe er forbundne. Med hinanden, med vores forfædre, med vores omgivelser og med planeten. I denne eventserie vil vi undersøge, hvordan banebrydende forskning i den forbundne krop påvirker nutidens og fremtidige muligheder for behandling af sygdomme. En række...
Job advertisement: Student assistents 8 h/w – temporary
Medical Museion is seeking five student assistants to join an exciting new art-science project as exhibition hosts, for a period of 15 weeks from October 2021 to January 2022. ‘The World is in You’ is an ambitious interdisciplinary exhibition – combining contemporary...
RESEARCH INVITATION: HOW CAN WE TALK ABOUT GUT AND PSYCHE?
What happens when we talk about the connection between our gut and psyche? How might such ‘articulations’ change the ways we understand the body, self and health? How can writing down personal memories help us experiment with ‘body talk’? Sign-up here before June 2,...
Studentermedhjælpere søges 8 timer/uge til særudstilling, Medicinsk Museion (midlertidige stillinger)
Medicinsk Museion søger 5 studentermedhjælpere (HK) til vores igangværende art-science projekt i en periode på 15 uger fra oktober 2021 til januar 2022 (med oplæring i juni og august). ”Verden er i dig” er en ambitiøs interdisciplinær udstilling, der kombinerer kunst,...
A HISTORY OF FERTILITY
Children will always be at the heart of our existence as a species. Having children, and surviving childbirth, has fascinated people through the ages. There have been stories of infertility as far back as stories have been recorded.
Microbes – the podcast
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...
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...
‘The World is in You’ needs you! Introducing our new audience survey
What does entanglement mean for you? How important is science in your life? Are you more drawn to historical objects or contemporary art? Share your thoughts here in English and in Danish In a few months’ time, Medical Museion will open its exhibition The World is in...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...