Note from curator Joanna Ebenstein, plus the "Morbid Anatomy" blog is wow
Andy Antippas and I are working on putting together an exhibition at Barrister's Gallery in New Orleans to open on May 9th. The title will be "The Morbid Anatomy Cabinet." The exhibition will consist of a lively cabinet-like clutter of objects as well as photographs of privately held "personal cabinets"--idiosyncratic museum-like collections owned by individuals rather than institutions and housed in apartments, homes, and studies around the United States and England. Objects, artifacts, installation, and other 3-D works are especially of interest.
To get a sense of the kind of work we are seeking to fill our cabinet with, here is the full title of the blog from which the cabinet will take its character-- "Morbid Anatomy: Examining the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and culture"--and here are some adjectives: anatomical, 19th Century, hysteria, specimens, natural history, teratology, macabre history, art/science, reliquaries, death, freaks, old science, phrenology, taxidermy, taxonomy, the encyclopedic impulse, waxworks, antiquated forms of seeing and showing, magic lanterns, panorama, diorama, curious objects, bones, bell jars, the melancholy, old lunatic asylums, things in jars, the "pathological sublime", antiquated photographic methods, shrines, cabinets of curiosity, devices of wonder, collections, exotica, the sacred/profane, ephemera. memento mori, funerary art and iconography. You know, that sort of thing—real objects or invented and imaginary objects.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions: joanna@astropop.com or Aantippas@aol.com. You may submit jpegs of work to both of us and we will exercise a certain amount of curatorial judgment on the execution and appropriateness of the works. Conceptual projects should be detailed out. No work will be accepted after Saturday, April 25th.
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