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...
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...
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...
Eating for gut health – a survey on probiotic food
By Andréa Wiszmeg Fermentation for cooking and preservation has old roots and can be found in most food cultures around the world. For a long time, people have chosen what to eat in order to maintain and strengthen a healthy gut. This seems to be a rising trend, with...
Bevilling til Medicinsk Museion til overtagelse af sygehushistorisk samling fra Holstebro
Medicinsk Museion har modtaget 711.291 kr. fra Cand. Pharm Povl M. Assens Fond til at overtage instrumenter, diagnoseudstyr, billeder mm. fra Holstebro Sygehus. Foto: Optræningsbarnecykel til optræning af børn med ortopædiske sygdomme. Medicinsk Museion har med glæde...
Text as technology
Text as technology for care and understanding is an upcoming PhD course, asking what ‘text’ is, and how and when ‘text’ matters in practices of education, medicine, care, hybrid art, exhibitions and research. To explore these questions and their implications, we bring...
Upcoming online talk: Curating Decay in The Living Room
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...
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...