"Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities” at MoMA

"Compact Object" Natsuyuki Nakanishi, 1962

Visit the exhibition website.

"The wunderkammer was a free-form collection of all things rare and marvelous: small works of art, exquisite objects made of precious materials, natural specimens, unusual rock or crystal formations, scientific instruments. Although ancestors of today’s museums, wunderkammers were more capricious, with a broader mandate: the goal was to gather knowledge and explain the world — not just art — through its wonders."

Read the whole article here: The New York Times

The Dead Sea Scrolls

EXHIBITION REVIEW | 'THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS'
Peering Into the Mystery of Those Enigmatic Fragments

Go, finally, because there is something rarely felt in exhibitions, and which the critic Walter Benjamin argued was heading toward extinction. In the 1930s he suggested that art objects were now so easily reproduced that they were being stripped of their “aura.” Aura, he suggested, is connected with uniqueness, but it also involves a sense of distance. An object possessing aura stands at a distance from us, no matter how near we get to it.

Read the whole article here: The New York Times

Schedule updated

Week 41
Monday October 6 Seminar led by Jenny Bergström
Tuesday October 7 Receive Second Assignment
Friday October 10 Group Presentations and Discussion (Svarta Havet)

Second Assignment

Mindful of discussions yesterday about what constitutes RTP, please examine all of the collections and exhibitions from the Museum of Jurassic Technology (see list of links) and then select one using it as a "litmus test" for what RTP can create.

Then work backwards: Does the collection or exhibition your group selected seem to be the result of using RTP as a methodology? Yes or no, use your conclusion to open the door onto a narrowed description of RTP as a methodology which will serve you in your main assignment.

Presentations will take place in Svarta Havet on Friday October 10 at 1pm.

Groups 1, 2, 3 and 4

Group 1
Rui Tenreiro, rui (at) soyfriends.com, (GDI)
Martin Ernstsen, marshtin (at) hotmail.com, (GDI)
Rossana Mercado, apoptosix66 (at) yahoo.com, (WIRE)
Martha Johansson, martha.johansson (at) konstfack.se, (T)
Nina Westman, nina.westman (at) konstfack.se (KoG)
Ami Izaki, izakiami (at) gmail.com, (EDG)
Marie, marie.gullander (at) konstfack.se, (ID)

Group 3
Eva, eva.jauss (at) konstfack.se, (GDI)
Sharmila, sharmila.bandyopadhyay (at) konstfack.se, (GDI)
Gulli, gudlauger.valgardsson (at) konstfack.se, (IA)
Bernard, b.s.abele (at) gmail.com, (MF)
Mars, hwasung.yoo (at) konstfack.se, (ID)
Brett, brettascarelli (at) gmail.com, (EDG)

Group 4
Joakim Nyström, joakim.nystrom (at) konstfack.se, (IA)
Margot Barolo, margot (at) barolo.nu (KG)
Chia-Wei Lin (Owen), chia-wei.lin (at) konstfack.se, (ID)
Eva Jakovits, eva.jakovits (at) konstfack.se (T)
Dana Hakim Bercovich, danahakim (at) gmail.com, (MF)
Joakim Forsgren, joakim (at) joakimforsgren.com, (K)