PLEASE NOTE: This event is now fully booked.
This event will be filmed and available to watch online shortly after.
Info: http://wellcomecollection.org/events/morbid-anatomy-salon
Date: Thursday 5 May 2016
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Admission: FREE
LOCATION: Offsite at The Wellcome Collection, London
Since 2008, the Morbid Anatomy blog and museum in New York have hosted thinkers and artists excavating the intersections of the history of art and medicine, death and culture. At this event, hear a ...
PLEASE NOTE: This event is now fully booked.
This event will be filmed and available to watch online shortly after.
Info: http://wellcomecollection.org/events/morbid-anatomy-salon
Date: Thursday 5 May 2016
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Admission: FREE
LOCATION: Offsite at The Wellcome Collection, London
Since 2008, the Morbid Anatomy blog and museum in New York have hosted thinkers and artists excavating the intersections of the history of art and medicine, death and culture. At this event, hear a series of short illustrated talks by contributors to the recently re-released "Morbid Anatomy Anthology." After the talks, strike up a conversation with the speakers or other audience members in the Reading Room.
PROGRAMME:
Introductory remarks by Joanna Ebenstein, co-editor and founder of the Morbid Anatomy blog and co-founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum
Naples: In the Court of Miracles - by Chiara Ambrosio, film maker
Staging Science at Wellcome Collection: Anatomical models in context - by Kate Forde, senior curator, Wellcome Collection
Death and Dr Buchan - by Ross MacFarlane, archivist, Wellcome Library
The Taxidermy of Walter Potter - by Dr Pat Morris, formerly Senior Lecturer in Zoology at University of London, co-author of Walter Potter's Curious world of Taxidermy
Image: The Wellcome Collection's own 18th century wax anatomical Venus. She is likely to have been a study for the iconic dissectible Medici Venus at La Specola.
