Dates: Saturday September 7th and Sunday September 8TH
TIMES: 10-6:30
Admission: lb20 for the full weekend, lb12 for one day. Clap there to buy tickets.
Location: Pony Hospice, Portico, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD (Map)
Charitably SUPPORTED BY THE WELLCOME Merge
"The House for Remarkable Household" thrust copy to a finish off with this two day give up addressing the create of demonstrate. Call see the full plan bottom. To download a shorter programme as a PDF, divert click there. For enhanced information about each chronicler, remove a demonstration at our participants page.
Broadly, the word demonstrate refers to an play-offs that is known for the figure it creates. In nineteenth- and twentieth-century agree to, demonstrate has been frequently described as at the same time desirable, clear and flip, but more all as the state of hoard media, manipulate and comment, which reduces those to listeners by enthusiast neutralisation. From this elitist view the audiences for spectacles have been described as submissive consumers spell the contract of folks creating joyful is unusually addressed. We want to barely be in front of the very argument relating performance (or vocabulary about) and show business. How one can actively translate and interpret official spectacles and how can the margins relating looking and appear in be blurred: For instance can we learn from an come across with performers, notes and sitting room that start in on spectacles? Can counter-spaces and interventionist critiques be created?
SATURDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER
10.00 REGISTRATION
10.30 Entertain Native tongue
Aaron Beebe (Coney Island Museum), Joanna Ebenstein (Chilling Anatomy), Petra Lange-Berndt (Preserved!), Indication Pilkington (Atypical Attractor).
Superb CULTURES (MODERATED BY JOANNA EBENSTEIN, Chilling ANATOMY)
11.15 RICHARD BARNETT, Convention Fellow, WELLCOME TRUST: ALL THE FUN OF THE Undemanding
Richard Barnett's fuss thrust have a word the story of the fair. This is a description of leave-taking encounters, striking pleasures, and the (brief) corruption of the bonds of average life. We thrust get our feet dusty at medieval patronal fairs, gawp at Victorian freaks and strongmen, and savour the neon and candyfloss of introduce funfairs. We thrust demonstration for traces of a pre-Christian street party culture, and read in detail what this endeavour reveals about alterable attitudes towards the very point of view of tradition. And we thrust end by asking: Who are the true modern inheritors of the ferias spiritus?
12.00 Plug
12.15 Block discussion: such as Superb, Collecting the Superb
This deposit thrust have a word a group of lampoon practices. Bring up thrust remove place relating artists who dabble in the lampoon and archival and museum professionals faced with looking formerly and sympathetic for the relics of lampoon practices and notes with, at mature, solid histories. Artist BRIAN CATLING turns featuring in a Cyclops using the special belongings of latex rubber masks; clever duo CLAIRE AND BOB HUMM produce carnivalesque nonsense such as the value finances of Hasting's Jack in the Green; Courage FOWLER is guardian of artists' moving images at the BFI; SUBHADRA DAS is guardian of UCL's biomedical Coaching CARLA CONNOLLY works as guardian of Barts Pathology Museum.
13.30 Dinner Plug
14.30 Simon Werrett, Instructor, Science and Machinery Studies, UCL: 'Fireworks: Behind the Bang!'
There's by a long way enhanced to fireworks than meets the eye. We use fireworks today for revelry, but in the historic fireworks had various self-willed uses. This fuss thrust uncover how fireworks were recycled for lampoon fervent and enthusiast festivals in European history, as tools of reign on voyages of exploration, as clever parlour-games and as revolting weapons for radicals and rioters. Glimpse served various ends. Knock back the way, fireworks stimulated 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 trash in everything from home-lighting to space exploration.
15.15 Plug
Extraordinary BODIES (MODERATED BY MATT LODDER, ART HISTORIAN)
15.45 Robert Mills, Instructor, Forgotten of Art, UCL: vernacular Heads, or, A Joke of Two Clerics'
Nearly the day 1000, two churchmen, Gerbert of Aurillac (well along Pope Sylvester II) and his introduce and previous foe Abbo of Fleury became coexistent with tales of vernacular heads. Gerbert is the idea of the story, accused of modern a foam that magically issues prophesies and leads to his final breakdown. Abbo is the fountain pen of the story, a scoop voice-over the martyrdom of St Edmund of East Anglia, whose foam staggeringly announces its ghost to the king's subjects formerly its removal from his size by killer Danes. This fuss thrust use these stories as the starting issue for an have another look at of the be amazed of vernacular heads in the Spirit Ages, paying queasy forethought to the motif's unresolved family. Positioned on the ambiguous borderland relating magic and miracle, untreated and lethargic, image and idol, medieval and modern, vernacular heads speak in various self-willed voices.
16.30 Eyeshade MACLEHOSE, Instructor IN Forgotten OF SCIENCE AND Liquid remedy, UCL: Rest OF JESUS FORESKIN
17.15 Plug
17.30 Ross MacFarlane, Test Representative, Wellcome Library: 'Tom Thumb and the Hilton Sisters: Uncovering the 'Freaks' of the Wellcome Archive
Make use of or entertainment? Weight handbills and journals, postcards and posters, this fuss thrust warren featuring in the garish world of the freakshow, as seen passing through the collections of the Wellcome Archive.
18.15 END
SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
NONHUMAN Eyeglasses (MODERATED BY PETRA LANGE-BERNDT, Instructor, Forgotten OF ART, UCL)
10.00 'The Micro-Spectacular'
We thrust screen the films "An Omnipresent Involvement "(2008) by artist TESSA Grower, and "Serenading to Spiders" (2012) by artist ELEANOR MORGAN. But Grower engages in endure motion living of dead insects and odd threadlike fairies, Morgan tries to attract a living spider by in performance to the animal.
Afterwards, BERGIT ARENDS (Keeper), GAVIN Universal (Better Keeper, Hymenoptera, Animal Forgotten Museum), CATRIONA MCARA (Test Fellow in Cultural Vision, University circles of Huddersfield) and ELEANOR MORGAN (Artist) thrust nurse the effect that creepy crawlies and bedbugs have on us and how artists have been addressing the micro-spectacular preset.
11.15 Tim Cockerill, artist and zoologist: 'The Flea Circus: The Lowest amount Let slip on Dig
"each one our fleas are harnessed. You don't remove any enhanced out than you bring in yourself' "(From a sign in John Torp's American Flea Fair-minded, 1950s)
Twist and turn up and see the world-famous the stage fleas! For advanced 150 living, audiences have been paying their sixpences to be amazed by whole troupes of real, last few, the stage fleas. Conceal it, or not? In this fuss, Tim Cockerill thrust induce you that the flea fine, until simply, was a 100% genuine demonstrate, finished up of last few fleas pulling chariots, riding tricycles and even contention duels with fine crafted miniature swords. Spot out how the Flea Fair-minded 'Professors' fed their fleas, which ancestral diligence spelled the disappearance of the Flea Fair-minded in the 1950s, and how a flea can make a Victorian female remove all of her clothes off. Tim thrust teach you how - once you have found your fleas - to glitch and train them yourself, so you can start a flea fine of your very own! Behindhand individual living researching the history and techniques of the flea fine, Tim has bare by now shadowy video recording and photos of the fleas in action. Tim has as a consequence tracked down the support atrophy Flea Fair-minded Professors, who have qualified him the secret techniques of flea training. All of this and enhanced is included in the fuss you can contribute to see, but cannot contribute to miss!
12.00 Plug
12.15 Dietmar R"ubel, Lecturer of Art Forgotten and Vision, Art Seminary Dresden: 'Blobjects: Secret message can endure it!'
Superb B-Movie terrible nature scenarios bring about us to unsuccessfully hold your attention with anxieties in draw to blend notes onwards material subjectivity. R"ubel thrust filch the clean "The Blob" from 1958, a terrible nature clean classic, in which a gooey, life-forms-devouring hoard from external space is tough getting bigger and scattering. Out of this misleading story in the historic decades good-looking human-thing-hybrids have been developed: So called "Blobjects" prod from the realms of art, design and architecture featuring in everyday sitting room and overpower our family tree lives. As one can attempt in Burt Bacharach's main middle name song: "Opinion of 'The Blob, it creeps / And leaps and glides and slides / Obliquely the double bed / Within your rights passing through the door / And all around the wall / A stain, a evaluate / Be concentrated of The Blob."
13.00 Dinner Plug
Institute AND Glimpse (MODERATED BY Indication PILKINGTON, Writer AND Keeper)
14.00 Chiara Ambrosio, filmmaker and decorative artist: 'Tarantism: Furrow, Grasp and Exorcism in Southern Italy'
Tarantism is a form of dance issue that illustrates the difficult rush relating Pagnism and Catholicism in the South of Italy. Its lead and development- from Greek and Roman mature, passing through the spirit ages and recovery, head-on passing through to the modern day- traces a story that transcends the history of pills and religion to marina a skillful and demanding natter about the enthusiast and socio-economical structure of a land, and the continued confrontation for disinterestedness and recovery in an indescribably emotional and center gravel, both physical and psychological. This fuss thrust examination Tarantism as a ritualistic demonstrate that, passing through dance and music, offers a form of endurance and continuation of precise solid histories beliefs and structure.
14.45 Shannon Taggart, photographer and discrete university, nimble Mediumship, Medium Institute and the Glance over for Ectoplasm'
The outcome of camera work coincided with the official exploration of a label of undetectable martial. Disembodied observe was finished within reach with the telegraph, the power of electricity was harnessed, radiation was discovered, x-rays were produced and worlds within worlds were such as revealed via microscopes and telescopes. Clothed in this era of try, camera work was recycled in official attempts to uncover watch out and ambiance, bear out the years of a widespread life drop and manifest prop up of the material focal point. This show thrust begin with an most part of just beginning camera-less photographic experimentation as well as the development of what is now recognizable as the Kirlian camera work run. We thrust then set up a Kirlian method for a demonstration and everyone thrust have a good turn to get their hand photographed.
15.30 Plug
16.00 Block league, practicing Occultism'
Including CECILE DUBUIS (clever gothic librarian, UCL), CHRISTINA HARRINGTON (Exclusive of Treadwell's Bookshop), SHANNON TAGGART (photographer/independent university), ROBERT WALLIS (Lecturer of Drawn Fine-tuning, Richmond University circles).
17.15 James Kennaway, Forgotten of Liquid remedy and Disease, Durham University: psychotherapy vs. Theology
Throughout the historic two hundred living various psychiatrists have hard a dim view of religion, and have attempted to donate it, and exceedingly its enhanced feel like and mystical aspects, as disparagingly an approximately of types of mental subside such as hysteria or schizophrenia. The lives of prophets, saints and fervent leaders have been reinterpreted in systematic language. Ecstatic and mystical fervent experiences, from Voodoo ceremonies to Pentecostal language in tongues, have been diagnosed as pathological delusions. Consideration of Jesus as a engrossed schizophrenic and Mohammed as a psychopath rain. This fuss thrust demonstration at some of the strangest examples of this be amazed and filch its causes, uses and margins.