Bring Me Her Heart is a beautiful card created by Daphne van der Zanden, a quirky and fun designer based in The Hague. The card design is inspired by the classic tale of Snow White. I love the whole idea of opening the heart to find a little gift!
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/streetanatomy/OQuC/~3/YWZGNcWUR7E/
Look out, Carrie Bradshaw. You are about to have some serious competition for the affections of Sebastian.
E! News reports that Molly Sims will appear on at least two episodes of The Carrie Diaries Season 2, coming on board as a "sexy woman" (d'uh!) who somehow gets "intimately involved" with Austin Butler's main character.
"Love working in New York," Sims Tweeted in response to the news. "So, so, so excited to be on The @CarrieDiariesCW!!"
Sims portrayed Delinda for five years on Las Vegas and has also stopped by episodes of Wedding Band and Royal Pains.
On The Carrie Diaries Season 1 finale, meanwhile, Sebastian and Carrie broke up after she discovered he hooked up with Maggie.
The Carrie Diaries returns with new installments on Friday, October 25 and the other major casting news of the summer revolves around Lindsey Gort: She has been cast as a young version of Samantha Jones.
Source:
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2013/08/molly-sims-to-compete-for-sebastian-on-the-carrie-diaries/
If you’re anything like me, you feel like death every single morning. My favourite remedy? Melt that feeling away with a pipin’ hot cup of coffee.
Snow Violent must have been feeling the same way about the dreadful a.m. when they designed these morbid skull & bones sugar cubes. Now you can literally dissolve the death out of your day. Or perhaps you’d like to imagine that tiny skull is the last remains of your caustic boss or your arrogant brother-in-law. I mean… that’s pretty horrifying, but I’m not judging you.
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Designer and illustrator Rachel Ignotofsky created these wonderfully quirky and creative anatomical posters. These are really fun for a kids room, especially if you don’t want real human anatomy up on their walls. You can purchase them over at Rachel’s Etsy site!
View more of Rachel’s work at rachelignotofskydesign.com!
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I am absolutely delighted to announce this year's 4th annual Congress for Curious People. This year's iteration, subtitled "A Festival of Spectacular Cultures," will take place from August 29th – September 8th at various locations around London and Blackpool and is kindly supported by the Wellcome Trust.
You can find a full schedule by clicking here and more information more information by clicking here,
Hope to see you at one or more of these terrific events!
The Congress for Curious People: A Festival of Spectacular Cultures
August 29th – September 8th 2013
London and Blackpool
Co-curated by Morbid Anatomy, Preserved!, and Strange Attractor
From Fun Fairs to Freak Shows… Magic Lantern Lectures to Flea Circuses… Cyclopian Artists and Mediumistic Drawings to Severed Heads and Anthropomorphic Taxidermy… Riotous Fireworks and the bright lights of an otherworldly Blackpool to the dark recesses of Old Operating Theatres and Clandestine Archives.Join us for an excursion into the peculiar, the carnivalesque and the macabre….
The Congress for Curious People is a week long festival of spectacular cultures, followed by a two-day symposium, co-curated by Morbid Anatomy, Preserved!, and Strange Attractor.
Founded in 2010 as a scholarly sideshow to the Congress of Curious People – a theatrical celebration of the carnivalesque at the Coney Island Museum in New York – the Congress for Curious People finds itself this year in a series of hidden locales and out-of-the-way venues across the U.K. Presenting talks, screenings, performances and walking tours, the festival will bring together over 40 international contributors specialising in eccentric customs, alternate histories and medical anomalies to explore ideas of spectacle and curiosity in some truly fascinating locales.
A two-day symposium on ‘Reclaiming Spectacle’ will include panels of academics, rogue scholars and artists discussing the intricacies of collecting, the politics of bodily display, non-human oddities, religion and the occult, whilst The Horse Hospital will host ‘Ethel Le Rossignol: A Goodly Company’, an exhibition of stunningly beautiful psychic artworks painted in the 1920s by this previously unknown medium and artist. The Congress will create a forum not only for discussing, but also for experiencing spectacle, combining the niche and the popular, the scholarly and the entertaining.
More information and a full schedule can be found at curiouscongress.wordpress.com. Please contact us at congressadmin@strangeattractor.com.
http://www.morbidanatomy.blogspot.co.uk / http://www.preservedproject.co.uk / http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk
Kindly supported by the Wellcome Trust.
More information can be found here, and a full schedule can be found here.Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-congress-for-curious-poeple.html
He: "Oh look; they have The Grave, The Dead March and the Danse Macabre."She: "Oh, that sounds ever so nice!"
--Look at Life - Coffee Bar, 1959
Readers of this blog will already be familiar with one of my favorite historical curiosities, fin de siècle Paris's Cabaret du Néant, or "Tavern of the Dead," which I have reported on here, here and here. I have just learned about two similarly-themed drinking establishments from days gone by; the first is London's "Cafe le Macabre," as pictured above in images drawn from a late 1950s newsreel documenting the nascent London coffee craze. You can watch that newsreel directly above this text block or by clicking here; the segement on "Cafe le Macabre" begins about 7 minutes in.
This Soho-based haunt--with Danse Macabre on the jukebox, death and the maiden-inspired murals and skull ashtrays--was featured in Mark Pilkington and Will Fowler's recent Vampires of London talk at the Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series at the Last Tuesday Society. I am happy to report that Mr. Pilkington will be writing a piece on the topic for volume two of the Morbid Anatomy Anthology, so stay tuned for more on that!
The Conclave was one of the few concert-saloons to maintain a bar as well as table service, and the arrangement in the back bar aroused much comment--it was fitted up as an exact replica of a section of burial vaults, complete with marble slabs on which were chiseled "Brandy, Whisky, Gin," etc. The bartenders were clad as undertakers, and when one of them served a customer he opened a vault in the back bar and pulled out a small silver-handled coffin filled with bottles of the desired liquor. The Conclave was always very popular among sightseers, but never gained great favor with hard drinkers.
Sadly, I was unable to locate any images for "The Conclave;" If anyone knows of any, please send them along to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com!
Also, for those who wish to know still more about the wonderful Cabaret du Néant (and really, who doesn't?), the heavily illustrated final chapter of the upcoming Morbid Anatomy Anthology--“Hell Époque: Death-Themed Cabarets and other Macabre Entertainments of Nineteenth Century Paris" by Vadim Kosmos--is for you. You can still order a copy of the book by hitting the black "pre-order" button on the upper right of this blog.
Also, for the California-based among you, you will have an opportunity to learn yet more--and sample cocktails made from original Cabaret du Néant recipes (!!!)--under the tutelage of the incomparable Mel Gordon at the Morbid Anatomy segment of LA Death Salon this October 19th. Hope very much to see you there!
Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/08/death-themed-drinking-establishments-of.html
At the Oxford Ashmolean Museum last weekend, I stumbled upon the very curious woven- and monogrammed (!!!) human-hair and death's head-bedecked watch chain pictured above; the website describes it thusly:
Edward East (Southill, Bedfordshire 1602 - 1697)Turquoise-set gold cased verge watch with chatelaine...Case: Gold case with hinged lid. Studded with turquoises, graduated and in concentric circles. Gold and turquoise pendant. To the watch is attached an 18th-century gold chatelaine with five plaques held between two gold chains with an extra plaque suspended from a short gold chain at the top, the plaques as follows: i. contains a lock of woven human hair in the front and is inscribed M*S Mariae Fowke quae obijt 29 Aug. 1660 aestat 51 on the back ii. with a skull and cross-bones over a lock of human hair in the front and with the engraved monogram RC on the back iii. with a lock of woven human hair in the front and the engraved inscription Non pretty sed Amoris on the back iv. with woven hair in the front and the engraved inscription Ma: Cooke borne 22th Decemb 76 dyed 16 Aug 77 v. with the monogram SF in gold wire over human hair in the front and with the date 3 Dec: 86 engraved on the back vi. on a short chain, with a lock of human hair in the front and the engraved inscription M*C with a dove and olive branch on the back.The chatelaine also suspends a bronze winding key. Dial: The front plate is poorly engraved with bead decoration to surround the dial. A very thin brass dial now rivetted to the movement. The chapter-ring with hours I-XII around a quarters circle and with an engraved vase of realistic flowers on the front. This dial is unlikely to be original. Movement: Circular gilt-brass plates with four pierced Egyptian pillars. Tangent-screw set-up mounted on the back plate. The barrel, fusee and wheel train are all missing. Verge escapement, the crown wheel, verge and balance all survive. Pierced foliate balance cock screwed to the back plate. Movement signed: Eduardus East Londini Edward East, 1602-1697, apprenticed in 1618 to Richard Rogers in the Goldsmiths' Company. Clockmakers' Company 1632, Assistant, Warden 1638, Master 1645 and 1653. In 1660 appointed Clockmaker to Charles II. Workshops in Pall Mall, later in Fleet Street and then at the Sun outside Temple Bar. In 1688 he was living at Hampton, Middlesex.Bequeathed by Sir Samuel Hellier, 1784.WA1949.117
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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/08/turquoise-set-gold-cased-verge-watch.html
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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/08/out-of-ordinary-auction-september-5th.html
I am delighted to announce the final schedule for the two day symposium component of this year's London-based Congress for Curious People. The theme is "Reclaiming Spectacle," and it will take place at London's Horse Hospital over the weekend of September 7th and 8th.
Panels will cover "Spectacular Cultures," "Collecting the Spectacular," "Extraordinary Bodies," "Non-Human Spectacles," and "Ritual and Spectacle" and will feature such speakers as Carla Connolly, curator of Barts Pathology Museum; Chiara Ambrosio, Filmmaker and visual artist; Richard Barnett of the Wellcome Trust; artists Brian Catling and Tessa Farmer; Will Fowler, curator of artists’ moving images, BFI; James Kennaway, Durham University; Dr Matt Lodder, art historian, London; Ross MacFarlane, Research Officer of the Wellcome Library; Shannon Taggart, Photographer/independent researcher; and Simon Werrett, Lecturer, Science and Technology Studies, UCL.
Full schedule follows; you can find out more on all here, and purchase tickets by clicking here here. This project is kindly supported by The Wellcome Trust
Hope very much to see you there!
"Reclaiming Spectacle" Two-day Symposium, Congress for Curious Peoples, LondonA 2-day symposium devoted to spectacular cultures, produced by Morbid Anatomy, Strange Attractor, The Coney Island Museum, and Preserved!
Dates: Saturday September 7th and Sunday September 8th
Times: 10-6:30
Admission: £20 for the full weekend, £12 for one day. Click here to buy tickets.
Location: Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD (Map)The Congress for Curious People will draw to a close with this two day symposium addressing the concept of spectacle. Please see the full schedule below. To download a shorter programme as a PDF, please click here. For more information about each speaker, take a look at our participants page.
Generally, the word spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates. In nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, spectacle has been frequently described as simultaneously enticing, deceptive and superficial, but above all as the domination of mass media, consumption and surveillance, which reduces citizens to spectators by political neutralisation. From this elitist view the audiences for spectacles have been described as passive consumers while the agency of those creating content is rarely addressed. We want to exactly challenge the very opposition between viewing (or writing about) and acting. How one can actively translate and interpret scientific spectacles and how can the boundaries between looking and doing be blurred: What can we learn from an encounter with performers, objects and spaces that create spectacles? Can counter-spaces and interventionist critiques be created?
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7
10.00 Registration
10.30 Welcome address
Aaron Beebe (Coney Island Museum), Joanna Ebenstein (Morbid Anatomy), Petra Lange-Berndt (Preserved!), Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor).‘Spectacular cultures’ (moderated by Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy)
11.15 Richard Barnett, Engagement Fellow, Wellcome Trust: ‘All the Fun of the Fair’
Richard Barnett’s talk will tell the story of the fair. This is a tale of fleeting encounters, vivid pleasures, and the (temporary) dissolution of the bonds of mundane life. We will get our feet dusty at medieval patronal fairs, gawp at Victorian freaks and strongmen, and savour the neon and candyfloss of contemporary funfairs. We will look for traces of a pre-Christian festival culture, and examine what this endeavour reveals about changing attitudes towards the very notion of tradition. And we will end by asking: Who are the true modern inheritors of the ferias spiritus?12.00 Break
12.15 Panel discussion: ‘Being Spectacular, Collecting the Spectacular’
This panel will address a range of spectacular practices. Discussion will take place between artists who dabble in the spectacular and archival and museum professionals faced with looking after and caring for the remnants of spectacular practices and objects with, at times, challenging histories. Artist Brian Catling turns into a Cyclops using the special effects of latex rubber masks; artistic duo Claire and Bob Humm enjoy carnivalesque humbug such as the fertility rites of Hasting’s Jack in the Green; Will Fowler is curator of artists’ moving images at the BFI; Subhadra Das is curator of UCL’s biomedical Teaching & Research Collections; Carla Connolly works as curator of Barts Pathology Museum.13.30 Lunch break
14.30 Simon Werrett, Lecturer, Science and Technology Studies, UCL: ‘Fireworks: Behind the Bang!’
There’s much more to fireworks than meets the eye. We use fireworks t
oday for celebrations, but in the past fireworks had many different uses. This talk will show how fireworks were used for spectacular religious and political festivals in European history, as tools of empire on voyages of exploration, as polite parlour-games and as dangerous weapons for radicals and rioters. Spectacle served many ends. Along the way, fireworks inspired scientists, artists, and poets and provided models for all kinds of inventions that have become part of the modern world. The legacy of these spectacles remains in everything from home-lighting to space exploration.15.15 Break
‘Extraordinary bodies’ (moderated by Matt Lodder, Art Historian)
15.45 Robert Mills, Lecturer, History of Art, UCL: ‘Talking Heads, or, A Tale of Two Clerics’
Around the year 1000, two churchmen, Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester II) and his contemporary and one-time foe Abbo of Fleury became associated with tales of talking heads. Gerbert is the subject of the story, accused of manufacturing a head that magically issues prophesies and leads to his eventual downfall. Abbo is the author of the story, a narrative recounting the martyrdom of St Edmund of East Anglia, whose head miraculously announces its presence to the king’s subjects after its removal from his body by murderous Danes. This talk will use these stories as the starting point for an analysis of the phenomenon of talking heads in the Middle Ages, paying particular attention to the motif’s ambivalent associations. Located on the ambiguous borderland between magic and miracle, organic and inorganic, image and idol, medieval and modern, talking heads speak in many different voices.16.30 Bill MacLehose, Lecturer in History of Science and Medicine, UCL: ‘Remnants of Jesus’ foreskin’
17.15 Break
17.30 Ross MacFarlane, Research Officer, Wellcome Library: ‘Tom Thumb and the Hilton Sisters: Uncovering the ‘Freaks’ of the Wellcome Library’
Exploitation or entertainment? Highlighting handbills and journals, postcards and posters, this talk will delve into the sensational world of the freakshow, as seen through the collections of the Wellcome Library.18.15 End
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8
‘Nonhuman Spectacles’ (moderated by Petra Lange-Berndt, Lecturer, History of Art, UCL)
10.00 ‘The Micro-Spectacular’
We will screen the films An Insidious Intrusion (2008) by artist Tessa Farmer, and Serenading to Spiders (2012) by artist Eleanor Morgan. While Farmer engages in stop motion animation of dead insects and uncanny skeletal fairies, Morgan tries to attract a living spider by singing to the animal.Afterwards, Bergit Arends (Curator), Gavin Broad (Senior Curator, Hymenoptera, Natural History Museum), Catriona McAra (Research Fellow in Cultural Theory, University of Huddersfield) and Eleanor Morgan (Artist) will discuss the impact that creepy crawlies and parasites have on us and how artists have been addressing the micro-spectacular plane.
11.15 Tim Cockerill, artist and zoologist: ‘The Flea Circus: The Smallest Show on Earth’
‘All our fleas are harnessed. You don’t take any more out than you bring in yourself’ (From a sign in John Torp’s American Flea Circus, 1950s)
Roll up and see the world-famous performing fleas! For over 150 years, audiences have been paying their sixpences to be amazed by whole troupes of real, live, performing fleas. Believe it, or not? In this talk, Tim Cockerill will persuade you that the flea circus, until recently, was a 100% genuine spectacle, made up of live fleas pulling chariots, riding tricycles and even fighting duels with perfectly crafted miniature swords. Find out how the Flea Circus ‘Professors’ fed their fleas, which household appliance spelled the demise of the Flea Circus in the 1950s, and how a flea could make a Victorian lady take all of her clothes off. Tim will teach you how – once you have found your fleas – to harness and train them yourself, so you can start a flea circus of your very own! After several years researching the history and techniques of the flea circus, Tim has uncovered previously unseen footage and photos of the fleas in action. Tim has also tracked down the last remaining Flea Circus Professors, who have taught him the secret techniques of flea training. All of this and more is included in the talk you can afford to see, but cannot afford to miss!12.00 Break
12.15 Dietmar Rübel, Professor of Art History and Theory, Art Academy Dresden: ‘Blobjects: Nothing can stop it!’
Spectacular B-Movie horror scenarios enable us to critically engage with anxieties in relation to liquid objects beyond human subjectivity. Rübel will consider the film “The Blob” from 1958, a horror film classic, in which a jellylike, life-forms-devouring mass from outer space is relentlessly growing and spreading. Out of this fictitious story in the past decades fascinating human-thing-hybrids have been developed: So called “Blobjects” push from the realms of art, design and architecture into public spaces and conquer our everyday lives. As one can hear in Burt Bacharach’s main title song: “Beware of ‘The Blob’, it creeps / And leaps and glides and slides / Across the floor / Right through the door / And all around the wall / A splotch, a blotch / Be careful of The Blob.”13.00 Lunch break
‘Ritual and Spectacle’ (moderated by Mark Pilkington, writer and curator)
14.00 Chiara Ambrosio, filmmaker and visual artist: ‘Tarantism: Dance, Possession and Exorcism in Southern Italy’
Tarantism is a form of dance mania that illustrates the complex struggle between Pagnism and Catholicism in the South of Italy. Its journey and development- from Greek and Roman times, through the middle ages and renaissance, straight through to the modern day- traces a story that transcends the history of medicine and religion to embrace a vast and complicated conversation about the political and socio-economical identity of a land, and the continued fight for freedom and emancipation in an extremely volatile and difficult terrain, both physical and psychological. This talk will explore Tarantism as a ritualistic spectacle that, through dance and music, offers a form of resistance and continuation of specific local h
istories beliefs and identity.14.45 Shannon Taggart, photographer and independent researcher, ‘Physical Mediumship, Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm’
The invention of photography coincided with the scientific exploration of a variety of invisible forces. Disembodied communication was made possible with the telegraph, the power of electricity was harnessed, radiation was discovered, x-rays were produced and worlds within worlds were being revealed via microscopes and telescopes. During this era of possibility, photography was used in scientific attempts to show thoughts and feelings, verify the existence of a universal life force and manifest proof of the human soul. This presentation will begin with an overview of early camera-less photographic experimentation including the evolution of what is now known as the Kirlian photography process. We will then set up a Kirlian device for a demonstration and everyone will have a chance to get their hand photographed.
15.30 Break
16.00 Panel discussion, ‘Practicing Occultism’
With Cecile Dubuis (artistic gothic librarian, UCL), Christina Harrington (Director of Treadwell’s Bookshop), Shannon Taggart (photographer/independent researcher), Robert Wallis (Professor of Visual Culture, Richmond University).17.15 James Kennaway, History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University: ‘Psychiatry vs. Religion’
Over the past two hundred years many psychiatrists have taken a dim view of religion, and have attempted to portray it, and especially its more extravagant and mystical aspects, as essentially an expression of types of mental illness such as hysteria or schizophrenia. The lives of prophets, saints and religious leaders have been reinterpreted in diagnostic terms. Ecstatic and mystical religious experiences, from Voodoo ceremonies to Pentecostal speaking in tongues, have been diagnosed as pathological delusions. Discussions of Jesus as a paranoid schizophrenic and Mohammed as a psychopath abound. This talk will look at some of the strangest examples of this phenomenon and consider its causes, uses and limitations.18.00 Final discussion
18.30 End
Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/08/reclaiming-spectacle-two-day-symposium.html
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Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Divya Anantharaman
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 - 5 PM
Admission: $110
Advance Tickets Required; Tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/392363
Email divya.does.taxidermy at gmail dot com with questions or to be put on wait list
Class limit: 10
This class is part of the Morbid Anatomy Art AcademyAnthropomorphic taxidermy--in which taxidermied animals are posed into human attitudes and poses--was an artform made famous by Victorian taxidermist and museologist Walter Potter. In this class, students will learn to create--from start to finish--anthropomorphic mice inspired by the charming and imaginative work of Mr. Potter and his ilk. With the creative use of props and some artful styling, you will find that your mouse can take nearly whatever form you desire, from a bespectacled, whiskey swilling, top hat tipping mouse to a rodent mermaid queen of the burlesque world.
In this class, Divya Anantharaman--who learned her craft under the tutelage of famed Observatory instructor Sue Jeiven--will teach students everything involved in the production of a fully finished mount, including initial preparation, hygiene and sanitary measures, fleshing, tail stripping, and dry preservation. Once properly preserved, the mice will be posed and outfitted as the student desires. Although a broad selection of props and accessories will be provided by the instructor, students are also strongly encouraged to bring their own accessories and bases; all other materials will supplied. Each student will leave class with a fully finished piece, and the knowledge to create their own pieces in the future.
Also, some technical notes:
- We use NO harsh or dangerous chemicals.
- Everyone will be provided with gloves.
- All animals are disease free.
- Although there will not be a lot of blood or gore, a strong constitution is necessary; taxidermy is not for everyone
- All animals were already dead, nothing was killed for this class.
- Please do not bring any dead animals with you to the class.
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Ex Voto Making Workshop with Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann
With Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen BachmannDate: Sunday, August 11Time: 1 - 5 pmAdmission: $150***Must pre-purchase tickets at http://exvoto.brownpapertickets.com; 8 person limitThis class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art AcademyAn Ex-voto is an offering made in fulfillment of a vow, usually offered to a particular saint or other divinity. The term is Latin in origin, short for ex voto suscepto –“from the vow made." Ex-votos are placed in chapels, shrines, and other places of pilgrimage to offer thanks for blessings, healing, and to seek grace. Such places of pilgrimage have been found throughout history and in such diverse places as Egypt, Italy, and Mexico.As ex-votos are often associated with miraculous healing, the forms they take reflect the healed body part. Hearts, lungs, legs, arms, heads, breasts, crutches, etc. often find themselves replicated in embossed and sometimes painted metal which adorn the walls of chapels in fantastic array. They are sometimes accompanied by written verse as well. Such ex-votos stand not only as tokens of thanks, but also as testaments of faith to other viewers.This class will demonstrate how to construct from sheet metal an ex-voto of one’s own choosing. Using metal sheers and embossing tools, students will learn how to lay out a design and create their own individualized ex-voto suitable for hanging on a wall (chapel or otherwise). Metal and tools will be supplied. Samples will be shown, as well as anatomical images suitable for reproduction. Please bring sketchpad and pencil.Karen Bachmann is a fine jeweler with over 25 years experience, including several years on staff as a master jeweler at Tiffany and Co. She is a Professor in the Jewelry Design Dept at Fashion Institute of Technology as well as the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute. She has recently completed her MA in Art History at SUNY Purchase with a thesis entitled Hairy Secrets:... In her downtime she enjoys collecting biological specimens, amateur taxidermy and punk rock.
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Small Rabbit Taxidermy Class with Divya AnantharamanDate: Sunday, August 25
Time: 12:00pm
Admission: $250
Class limited to six students
*TICKETS MUST BE PRE-ORDERED AT http://rabbittaxidermy.brownpapertickets.com
In this intimate, hands-on class (limited to only six students), we will study the happy and hoppy rabbit! Students will create a fully-finished rabbit mount in a naturalistic or anthropomorphic position. Students will learn everything involved in producing a finished mount - from initial preparation, hygiene and sanitary measures, to proper technique and dry preservation. The class will teach how to create a wrapped body form using the rabbit's own body as reference, and how to reconstruct a rabbit head using the skull as reference. Students will also be introduced to the techniques of ear turning and ear carding. The use of anatomical study, reference photos, and detailed observation will also be reviewed as important tools in recreating the natural poses and expressions that magically reanimate a specimen. A selection of props will be provided, however, students are welcome to bring their own bases and accessories if something specific is desired. All other supplies will be provided for use in class.
Each student will leave class with a fully finished piece, and the knowledge to create their own pieces in the future.
Divya Anantharaman is a Brooklyn based artist whose taxidermy practice was sparked by a lifelong fascination with natural mythology and everyday oddities. After a journey filled with trial and error, numerous books, and an inspiring class (Sue Jeiven's popular Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class at Observatory!), she has found her calling in creating sickly sweet and sparkly critters. Beginning with mice and sparrows, her menagerie grew to include domestic cats, woodchucks, and deer. Recently profiled on Vice Fringes, the New York Observer, and other publications, she will also be appearing in the upcoming season of Oddities-and is definitely up to no good shenanigans. You can find out more at http://www.d-i-v-y-a.com
Also, some technical notes:
- We use NO harsh or dangerous chemicals.
- Everyone will be provided with gloves.
- All animals are disease free.
- Although there will not be a lot of blood or gore, a strong constitution is necessary; taxidermy is not for everyone
- All animals were already dead, nothing was killed for this class.
- Please do not bring any dead animals with you to the class.
_______________________________________________The Glass Flowers: Marvels in Art and Science
Illustrated lecture by Jenny Brown, Collection Manager of the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at Harvard
Date: Tuesday, August 27th
Time: 8.00
Admission: $8
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at Harvard University, more popularly known as The Glass Flowers, is often described as “an artistic marvel in the field of science and a scientific marvel in the field of art.” The collection was commissioned to aid in botanical instruction and serve as the premier botany exhibit in what is now the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The models were made from 1887 through 1936 by Leopold (1822-1895) and Rudolf (1857-1939) Blaschka, father and son glass artists who lived and worked in Hosterwitz, Germany near Dresden.
Prior to making the Glass Flowers, the Blaschkas established a very successful business supplying collections around the world with glass models of marine invertebrates such as sea anemones, jellyfish, and squid among many other species. Like these marine animals, plant specimens were difficult to preserve and display in a compelling fashion. Once-vibrant colors would fade and forms would be flattened when mounted on a herbarium sheet or become distorted if preserved in liquid. Glass, in the highly skilled hands of the Blaschkas, provided a medium from which lifelike models of plants could be made for study and public display. The Glass Flowers are complex items to categorize, straddling art and science, regarded as teaching tools and exemplary works of art glass. This lecture will share the fascinating history and creation of this truly singular collection.
Jenny Brown is the Collection Manager of the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at Harvard University, better known as the Glass Flowers. She holds a master’s degree in library and information science from Pratt Institute and a BFA in Interrelated Media from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has done cataloging, archiving, and collection management work for the estate of abstract painter Doug Ohlson (NYC) and in the studio of glass artist Toots Zynsky (Providence, RI) where she also worked as a studio assistant and gained valuable experience handling fragile artworks. Jenny brings a love of natural history, the organizational skills of a librarian, and just the right mixture of confidence and caution to her position managing the Glass Flowers._______________________________________________
Anthropomorphic/Naturalistic Chipmunk Taxidermy Class with Divya Anantharaman
Date: Sunday, September 15th
Time: 12:00 – 5 PM
Admission: $120
Tickets at http://chipmunktaxidermy.brownpapertickets.com
This class is part of the Morbid Anatomy Art Academy
Perfect for beginners, this hands-on class will examine the nutty ways of the chipmunk! Students will create a fully-finished chipmunk mount in the naturalistic or anthropomorphic style of their choice. Students will learn everything involved in producing a finished mount - from initial preparation, hygiene and sanitary measures, to proper technique and dry preservation. The class will teach a few methods of creating a form to suit a small animal, and students will have the option of selecting which technique they would like to use for their piece. The use of anatomical study, reference photos, and detailed observation will also be reviewed as important tools in recreating the natural poses and expressions that magically reanimate a specimen. A selection of naturalistic and anthropomorphic props will be provided, however, students are welcome to bring their own bases and accessories if something specific is desired. All other supplies will be provided for use in class.Each student will leave class with a fully finished piece, and the knowledge to create their own pieces in the future.Divya Anantharaman is a Brooklyn based artist whose taxidermy practice was sparked by a lifelong fascination with natural mythology and everyday oddities. After a journey filled with trial and error, numerous books, and an inspiring class (Sue Jeiven's popular Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class at Observatory!), she has found her calling in creating sickly sweet and sparkly critters. Beginning with mice and sparrows, her menagerie grew to include domestic cats, woodchucks, and deer. Recently profiled on Vice Fringes, the New York Observer, and other publications, she will also be appearing in the upcoming season of Oddities-and is definitely up to no good shenanigans. You can find out more at http://www.d-i-v-y-a.com
Also, some technical notes:
- We use NO harsh or dangerous chemicals.
- Everyone will be provided with gloves.
- All animals are disease free.
- Although there will not be a lot of blood or gore, a strong constitution is necessary; taxidermy is not for everyone
- All animals were already dead, nothing was killed for this class.
- Please do not bring any dead animals with you to the class.
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Heavenly Bodies – Jeweled Sacred Skeletons of the 16th Century
Illustrated lecture and book party with Dr. Paul Koudounaris, with music and artisinal cocktails by Friese Undine
Date: Friday, October 11
Time: 8:00
Admission: $8
**Copies of Heavenly Bodies will be available for sale and signingTonight, Dr. Paul Koudounaris--author of Empire of Death, the definitive book on ossuaries--will present a heavily illustrated talk based on his new book Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs, the story of skeletons discovered in the Roman Catacombs in the late sixteenth century.
These largely anonymous skeletons were presented as the remains of Early Christian martyrs, and treated as sacred. They were sent to Catholic churches and religious houses in German-speaking Europe to replace the holy relics that had been destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. Here, the skeletons would be carefully reassembled and richly adorned with jewels and precious costumes by teams of nuns. Intended as flamboyant devotional items, they are now considered some of the finest works of art ever created in the medium of human bone. As time passed, faith in these sumptuously decorated skeletons--once an important part of the spiritual life of many people--wavered, until finally they were cast out during the Enlightenment as remnants of a superstitious and embarrassing Catholic past.Largely forgotten in the annals of religious history, Dr. Koudounaris gained unprecedented access to religious institutions where the surviving decorated skeletons are held. His photographs are the first that were ever taken of many of them, and the images which will accompany his lecture are bizarre, moving, and beautiful.
Dr. Paul Koudounaris holds a PhD in Art History (UCLA) and has taught classes at numerous universities and published in magazines throughout the world. He is the author of The Empire of Death, the first illustrated history of charnel houses and religious sanctuaries decorated with human bone. Named one of the ten best books of 2011 (London Evening Standard), it has garnered international attention for its combination of unique historical research and stunning photography.
Photo: Photo by Dr. Paul Koudounaris, tonight's speaker, from his new book "Heavenly Bodies."
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Death Salon, Los Angeles, CaliforniaA weekend symposium devoted to to discussions of mortality and its cultural implications with special programming by Morbid Anatomy, Atlas Obscura, and The Order of the Good Death
Dates: October 18 - 20
Full info and registration hereS C H E D U L EFriday, October 18, 2013
The Order of the Good DeathFor registered guest's only, this day will be devoted to discussions about death and the feminine and uncommon corpses. Presenters will include Annetta Black of Atlas Obscura; Nancy Caciola, Medieval History professor at UC San Diego; Brandy Schillace, Managing Editor of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Andrea Wood, professor at Winona State University, Joanna Ebenstein, founder of Morbid Anatomy, and Snow Mercy, biochemistry PhD and professional dominatrix and advocate.This will be followed by an open-to-the-public Death Salon Cabaret with talks, music, and short films hosted by Lord Whimsy with speakers including Paul Koudounaris, Author of The Empire of Death; Bess Lovejoy, author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses; Lindsey Fitzharris, Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow; and Sarah Troop, host of The Cabinet of Curiosities P
odcast. There will also be musical performances by Jill Tracy and Adam Arcuragi. More details can be found here.------------------------------------------------------------Saturday, October 19, 2013
Morbid Anatomy Day
11 AM-6 PMA one day, open-to-the-public Morbid Anatomy pop-up event which will explore the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture with screenings, a mini-symposium, a lecture on fin de siècle Parisian death themed cabarets with recreations of their classic drinks, and a panel on saints and mortification of the flesh.
11-1: Morbid Anatomy Anthology book panel of mini lectures, Midnight Archive screenings and panel discussion moderated by Lord Whimsy featuring:
- Colin Dickey, Author of Cranioklepty; Co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology
- Caitlin Doughty, Ask A Mortician/The Order of the Good Death
- Joanna Ebenstein, Founder of Morbid Anatomy
- Richard Faulk, Author of Gross America
- Mel Gordon, Author of The Grand Guignol and Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin
- Evan Michelson of TV’s “Oddities”
- Paul Koudounaris, author of Empire of Death
- Ronni Thomas, The Midnight Archive
1-2: Lunch2-5: Obliterated Bodies, Dissected Souls: Panel Moderated by Colin Dickey
Mortification of the Feminine Flesh: Elizabeth Harper
From the fatal anorexia of St. Catherine of Sienna to St. Rose of Lima's hidden crown of nails, self-inflicted pain has become part of a well-worn path to holiness for many Catholic women. However, these shocking acts become comprehensible and even logical when seen as a response to the transformation of the Church from the egalitarian early Christian church to the strict patriarchy of the Catholic Church as we know it. This change, coupled with Catholicism's unique views on death and martyrdom have lead many holy women to believe that to perfect a woman's soul, her body must be destroyed.The Annihilated Saint: The Signifying Body of Bartholomew: Colin Dickey
Colin Dickey discusses images of torture in the cult of Christian saints, particularly Saint Bartholomew, who was flayed alive and who is regularly depicted holding his own skin. Inverting the traditional relationship of torturer and powerless victim, Christian imagery turned the act of torture into empowerment, where specific methods of torture became iconically associated with specific saints. As the cult of the saints waned, these images of torture began to filter into European consciousness in bizarre and fascinating ways, as Bartholomew's singular torture found its way into the lexicon of Renaissance anatomy textbooks, creating a new relationship between the sublime body and the dissected corpse.Bringing Out the Dead: The "Anatomy Art" of Gunther von Hagens: Allison de Fren
Filmmaker/media scholar Allison de Fren discusses the corporeal displays of controversial German anatomist Gunther von Hagens. Using examples from both his traveling exhibition of human cadavers, Bodyworlds, and his UK television series Anatomy for Beginners, she will show how von Hagens recycles the visual motifs of Renaissance anatomy theatre and art to resuscitate the practice of public dissection for contemporary audiences5-6: ”Cabarets of Death” : Lecture followed by fin de siècle Parisian death-themed cabarets cocktails from original recipes with Mel GordonHighly illustrated lecture with reprints of the Cabaret du Néant’s menu and a recreation of their classic drinks from original recipes.------------------------------------------------------------Death Salon Soirée
Silver Lake, Los Angeles
8pmIn the evening, for conference attendees only, address in registration email.------------------------------------------------------------Sunday, October 20, 2013
Atlas Obscura DaySunday Mourning Death Salon planners’ breakfast. Location and TBA. Open to conference attendees only.Atlas Obscura‘s field agent Matthew Blitz will lead guided field trip(s) to Evergreen Cemetery, exploring its long, fascinating history since 1877. Shuttle bus transportation provided by LA Beer Hop. Open to conference attendees only.
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Reliquary Wax Doll Workshop with Artist and Ceroplast Sigrid Sarda
Date: Saturday, October 26th and Sunday October 27th
Time: 1 – 6:30 PM
Price: $350
Must RSVP via
sigrid.sarda(at)gmail.com to sign up.
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art AcademyWax artist Sigrid Sarda has returned for a special 2 day class teaching the art of doll making. This class will revolve entirely on the creation of a wax doll in the image of the student’s chosen saint with the relic of their choice.The wax doll represented as a human figure has always fascinated man. In early times these dolls were connected to witchcraft, magic, exorcisms for priests, and effigies. For this class they represent talismans and reliquaries for the student’s own personal interpretation of the saint’s meaning. The doll then becomes an object of prayer and veneration.Each student will receive a handmade wax doll by Sigrid, either male or female and in turn will learn to set eyes, root hair, color the skin tone and add special physical quirks the saint may have, an example being stigmata or a particular wound. The student will then realize their own decorated costumes for the saints using patterns in the art of Victorian paper clothes making for dolls.First day schedule:
- short talk on the history of the wax doll and everyone’s chosen saint and what it
- means to them.
- inserting glass eyes
- rooting hair
- Lunch break
- rooting hair, beginning of skin coloring and adding any special physical quirks.
Second day schedule:
- finish up skin coloring and quirks
- insert / add relic
- lunch break
- make and decorate clothing for doll
- dress doll
Materials are included though the student is expected to bring their own relic. The relic can be a lock of hair, a fingernail, bone, anything that has meaning to the student. The trims, spangles and paper for the costumes are either antique or vintage as are the glass eyes.
The dolls will be approx 6"-8".Sigrid Sarda is self taught in the art of ceroplastics. She has been featured on such programs as The Midnight Archive, TV's Oddities, and has exhibited in London and NYC. She has an upcoming residency at The Gordon Museum in London, recreating the Black Dahlia for NoirCon 2014 and will be giving a demonstration in the art of medical wax moulage for The New York Academy of Medicine this fall._______________________________________________SOLD OUT!!! Death in Mexico: A Special Field Trip to Mexico for Day of the Dead, Obscure Macabre Museums, and other Sites Important to the History of Death in Mexico October 31 - November 4
A 4-day trip to Mexico focusing on sites influential to the Mexican history of death, organized by Mexican writer and scholar Salvador Olguín and Morbid Anatomy
Dates: October 31 - November 4 2013 (**Must reserve by July 20)
Includes: Two Day of the Dead Festivals; Special tours of The Museo de las Momias (Mummy Museum), The Museo Nacional de la Muerte (National Museum of Death), and The José Guadalupe Posada Museum, and a visit to historical Hidalgo market in Guanajuato, the Zacatecas Cathedral, the Temple of the Jesuit Order and other beautiful places.
Cost: $600.00 USD (Includes all hotels, luxury ground transportation, museum admissions, and breakfasts; airfares not included)
PLEASE NOTE: non-refundable down payment of $250.00 required by July 20 to reserve) Email info@borderlineprojects.com info [at] borderlineprojects.com with questions.This Halloween season, why not join Morbid Anatomy and Mexican scholar Salvador Olguín for a very special 4-day, 4-night trip to Mexico for our favorite holiday, Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead?With Mexican writer and history of death in Mexico scholar Salvador Olguín as our guide, this tour will introduce attendees to some of the of lesser-known macabre destinations in Mexico holding unique gems associated with the culture of death. Our journey will take us to two off-the-beaten-track Day of the Dead celebrations, special tours of obscure museums, markets selling Day of the Dead and Santa Muerte artifacts, churches, cemeteries, and, throughout, great regional cuisine (and drink!) and luxury transportation.Departing from Monterrey, the trip will take us to the beautiful, historical colonial cities of Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes to experience an area traditionally described as wild and untamed within Mexico. This region of Mexico is uniquely important to the history of death in Mexico in that it was the home of both José Guadalupe Posada and Joaquín de Bolaños, author of the first official Mexican biography of Death La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte published in 1792.Attractions include:
- Two Day of the Dead celebrations
- The Guanajuato The Museo de las Momias (Mummy Museum)
- The Museo Nacional de la Muerte (National Museum of Death)
- The José Guadalupe Posada Museum,
- The Hidalgo market in Guanajuato, a historical market where attendees can buy Day of the Dead and Santa Muerte
souvenirs- Temple of the Jesuit Order
- A plethora of stores and other places for shopping, delicious food, an evening tour of Guanajuato with live music included, and much more.
October 31
We recommend arriving in Monterrey on the evening of Halloween, October 31. We will have a Halloween celebration, Mexican style, and we will depart to our first destination early in the morning of November 1st.November 1st - Monterrey/Guanajuato
We will convene in Monterrey, Mexico at 7:30 in the morning, and leave for the city of Guanajuato by bus. Mexico’s Museo de las Momias (Mummy Museum) makes the small Colonial city of Guanajuato the star of this tour. The Mummy Museum has been displaying the naturally mummified bodies of people buried in the local cemetery for almost 150 years. A combination of dry weather, a mineral-rich soil, and a potent concentration of minerals in the water makes every person who has lived and died in Guanajuato a potential mummy, according to local lore. The museum itself is a wonderful combination of the macabre and the kitsch. You can visit the actual cemetery and see real mummies, but you can also visit the ‘modern’ Halloweenesque section of the museum, and eat charamuscas, a sugary candy shaped like a mummy.November 2nd – Zacatecas
Zacatecas, another small Colonial city in Northern Mexico, was the home of Joaquín de Bolaños, author of the first official Mexican biography of Death. La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte was first published in 1792, and was quickly condemned by the literary elites and some prominent officers of the Inquisition. The book managed to survive, and nowadays the City of Zacatecas honors Bolaños, its prodigal son, with a festival named after him around Day of the Dead.November 3rd – Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes was the birthplace of José Guadalupe Posada. Posada’s Calaveras have become icons of the festivities around Día de Muertos. In this city, we will visit the José Guadalupe Posada Museum, which houses original illustrations by Posada and other engravers of the time. The tour includes an exclusive visit of the Museo Nacional de la Muerte (National Museum of Death.)We will be back in Monterrey by November 4 after 5:00 p.m. Please consider this for your traveling arrangements. For more information, contact info [at] borderlineprojects.com
Cost: $600.00 USD - airfares not included, non-refundable down payment of $250.00 required by July 20 to reserve . Email info [at] borderlineprojects.com for questions.
The $600 fee covers land transportation in a luxury bus, traveler insurance, lodging (double rooms at hotels), taxes, breakfasts, guided tours, tickets to all museums, special visits to some of the sites, and special treats.
_______________________________________________Full list and more information on all events can be found here. More on the Morbid Anatomy Art Academy can be found here.Top image: Jacaranda filicifolia, Image courtesy of The Archives of Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka and the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/08/glass-flowers-la-death-salon-rabbit.html
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