Vidensseminar med Hotel Pro Forma

Den japanske billedkunstner og performer Ayaka Okutsu er pt. artist-in-residens hos det internationale teaterkompagni Hotel Pro Forma. Med afsæt i hendes kunstinstallation Meating Ghost afholdes onsdag d. 9. april 2014 kl. 13-14 et vidensseminar på Medicinsk Museion. Vidensseminaret har foruden Ayaka Okutsu deltagelse af museumschef Thomas Söderqvist, Medicinsk Museion, centerdirektør Lene Juhl Rasmussen, Center for Sund Aldring og grundlægger af Robot Culture and Aesthetics, Elizabeth Ann Jochum. Arrangementer er gratis, men tilmelding er nødvendig. Læs mere her.

Touching the tactile. 2 dages workshop om følesansen

 

1000 håndtryk. Besøg og performance om bakterierne i og på vores krop

Den canadiske forsker og kunster Francois-Joseph Lapointe kommer til Museion som visiting artist i maj. Han er professor i biologi ved Université de Montreal og forsker blandt andet i bakterierne i vores krop og deres arvemateriale, det såkaldte metagenom. Under sit besøg vil han lave en performance på Panum, hvor han forandrer sammensætningen af bakterier på sin håndflade gennem håndtryk med forbipasserende studerende og forskere – deraf de 1000 håndtryk. Sammensætningen af mikrofloraen vil løbende blive samplet og sekventeret for at se forandringerne. De vil derefter blive visualiseret og udstillet på Museion i oktober i forbindelse med Kulturnatten. Læs mere om Lapointe og hans besøg her.
 

 

Seminar with Hotel Pro Forma

The Japanese artist and performer Ayaka Okutsu is currently artist-in-residence at the international theater company Hotel Pro Forma here in Copenhagen. On the basis of her art installation ‘Meating Ghost’ a seminar will be held at Medical Museion on Wednesday 9th April 2014, 1-2pm. In addition to Ayaka Okutsu presenters will include Thomas Söderqvist, Director of Medical Museion, Lene Juhl Rasmussen, Director of Center for Healthy Aging, and Elizabeth Ann Jochum founder of Robot Culture and Aesthetics. The seminar is free, but registration is required. Read more here.
 

Touching the Tactile. 2 day workshop on the sense of touch

In collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts, Medical Museion will host a workshop on the sense of touch from an art and museological perspective. One focus will be the way the sense of touch is often overlooked in the production of exhibitions. More broadly, the workshop presentations and interventions aim to explore the experience and knowledge acquisition that occurs whenever we touch something. See the full program here.

1000 handshakes. Visit of artist-scientist François-Joseph Lapointe and bacterial performance at Panum

In May, the Canadian researcher and artist Francois-Joseph Lapointe will be visiting artist at Medical Museion. Lapointe has a PhD in choreography, and is also Professor of biology at the University of Montreal. One of his research interests is the bacteria that inhabit our bodies; the ‘microbiome’, and their genetic material; the ‘metagenome’. During his visit Lapointe will perform ‘1000 handshakes’ at the Medical Faculty’s Panum building, which involves changing the composition of the bacteria in the palm of his hand by shaking hands with passing students and researchers. The composition of his hand microbiome will be periodically sampled, and the DNA sequenced to reveal changes over time. The results will be visualized as maps of his changing microbiome and displayed at Panum and at Medical Museion in October as a part of the annual Culture Night. Read more about Lapointe and his visit here.