Post-specimen encounters between art, science and curating : rethinking art practice and objecthood through scientific collections

Post-specimen encounters between art, science and curating : rethinking art practice and objecthood through scientific collections / edited by Edward Juler & Alistair Robinson.

Examines how scientific objects in museums and other collections act as inspiration to contemporary art practice, its histories, curating and aesthetics. Cross-disciplinary essays from leading arts professionals explore how scientific encounters in museums provoke new modes of creative thinking abou...

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Other Authors: Juler, Edward (Editor), Robinson, Alistair (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2020.
Subjects:
Art and science.
Art museums.
Museum techniques.
museology.
ART / History / General
Art and science
Art museums
Museum techniques
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Notes
  • References
  • 1 Narratives of the 'Fetish'
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2 Curating Interobjectively in Museums
  • 'A Scientific Encounter': Envisaging the Myth of the Museum
  • The Museum's Omniscience
  • Presenting Objects in the Academy: The Poetics of Academic Space
  • Towards an Interobjective Curatorial Practice: Exercises in Diplomacy
  • The Collection as Collectivity-'How to Redefine the Collectives?'
  • Three Scenes from an Exhibition
  • Object Encounter #1: Kelly Richardson and Annibale Carracci
  • Object Encounter #2: Murray Ballard and Anon.
  • Object Encounter #3: Daniel Brown and Jan Breughel
  • Notes
  • 3 'A Readiness to Find What Surrounds Us Strange and Odd': Objects in the Alternative Curiosity Museum
  • Museums: Laboratories of the Marvellous?
  • Cabinets of Curiosities: 'Boudoirs Earmarked for Experts'?
  • Museum of Jurassic Technology: A Detective Challenge
  • Museum der Unerhörten Dinge: 'A Literary Wunderkammer'
  • Wonder in the Face of Abundance or Wonder in the Face of Rarity?
  • The Alternative Curiosity Museum as 'Wild Museum'
  • Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature: Wonder and Critical Awareness
  • Château d'Oiron: Curiosity and Multisensory Engagement
  • Curiosity as a Way of Seeing, Thinking and Caring
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 Art, Science and the Mutant Object
  • The Live Specimen
  • Mutant Objects
  • Neither Animal, Nor Vegetable Nor Mineral
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5 Blind Summit/Models of Subjectivity: Surrealism, Physics and Psychoanalysis
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6 Glimpsed Phantoms of Sensation
  • Or, a Psychogeographical Investigation of Various Anatomical Specimens with Reference to Christine Borland's Cet être-là, c'est à toi de le créer!
  • Notes
  • References
  • 7 ... as far back as I will remember
  • Jardin des Plantes, Montpellier, South of France
  • Call Me by My Name
  • From Alexandria to Carthage
  • Life's Rich Pageant
  • Better Living through Chemistry
  • Pansexuality
  • I, post-specimen
  • I, superspecies
  • Living in the Homogecene
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • 8 Poetry and the Pathology Museum: A Model of Difference
  • Notes
  • References
  • 9 The Scientist and the Magician
  • Introduction
  • A Compendium of Vignettes, or, Imagining-and Imaging-'Energy'
  • Deus ex machina: From the Magic Lantern to the Layden Jar
  • #1: A First Experiment-Imagining Electricity
  • Reflecting upon the Presence of Magic in Artwork, and Artistry of Magic and Science: Some Inconclusive Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • 10 Choosing, Unpicking and Connecting: On Drawing Museum Objects
  • Choosing
  • Unpicking
  • Connecting
  • Notes
  • References

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