The Academy of Things/Curiosity 0.2: Die Wunderkammer in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
- Submitting institution
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The University of Cumbria
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Williams4
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, Germany
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- October
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Contribution to a conference (Curiosity 0.2. Die Wunderkammer in der zeit-genössischen Kunst), exhibition (Mark Dion: The Academy of Things) and catalogue (text and photography) Mark Dion: The Academy of Things. The exhibitions, the conference (conducted in German and English) and the related events celebrate the 250th anniversary of HfBK (Höchschule für Bildende Künste) Dresden. Whilst this was both an artistic and academic context, it is also an exploration of historical and contemporary ideas that sur-round ideas of the Wunderkammeren and Künstkammeren within the context of the remnants of historical collections from HfBK. Williams, long-time collaborator with Dion, contributed to the exhibition (as the only other artist invited to participate), in reprising his role as ‘the bone man’ from the Tate Thames Dig (1999), and focused on the organisation of two elements of the show dealing with ossiferous material – The X-Ray Wall and Bone Table within the Didacticum. Here, uncatalogued bone and X-Ray collections from the Academy were re-collected, and re-presented by Williams to form ephemeral alternate comparative anatomies. This work built on an earlier visit to HfBK (2011) by Williams as a guest of Prof. Rübel at an early stage in the research towards the exhibition and event.Williams participated in a panel discussion, Die Praxis der Wunderkammer, for the conference – Dr. Mark Dion (Artist, New York), Dirk Syndram (Director of the Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden), Professor Robert Williams (Artist, Lancaster) in conversation concerning The Wunderkammer, facilitated by Professor Petra Lange-Berndt. The focus of the discussion set the agenda for the event as it sought to address the central themes and aims of the project and conference to bring together contemporary discourses of the Wunderkammeren and Künstkammeren as vehicles for contemporary art and curatorial practices.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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