Cabinet Curiosities

Contents of this lecture

Overview of the wonderchamber The experience of wonder - and how this can be a key to interactivity and cross-disciplinary connections The box or shelf as a tool for making curious artworks Boxes and cabinets used by artists: -Duchamp -Fluxus (Maciunas) -Joseph Cornell

Collecting as media the work of Mark Dion internet collections and digital wunderkammers

Wunderkammer: wonder room, wonder chamber Wunderkabinet, Wunderschranke: cabinet of curiosities Kunstkammer: art room/art chamber Kunstkabinet: art cabinet

Olaus Wormius
Danish physician amassed a massive collection of objects and artifacts, both natural and man-made Collections depicted as etchings known as Museum Wormianum

1588 - 1654

Olaus Wormius

1588 - 1654

Ulisse Aldrovandi 1522 - 1605

His "theatre" illuminating natural history comprising some 7000 specimens. Interest in botany, geology and zoology Organized a variety of expeditions in order to collect and catalogue plants.

Ulisse Aldrovandi 1522 - 1605

History of Monsters 1642

Ulisse Aldrovandi 1522 - 1605

History of Monsters 1642

Albertus Seba
Published Thesaurus of animal specimens with beautiful engravings Linnaeus based his classification off of Sebas collection

1665 - 1736

Albertus Seba

1665 - 1736

Albertus Seba

1665 - 1736

Vincent Levinus
Installed a massive, vaulted gallery Collection open to the public Catalogue of his collection is called Wondertoonel der

1658 - 1727

Nature

Vincent Levinus

1658 - 1727

Vincent Levinus

1658 - 1727

The Freak Show Wonders 19th Century

Feejee Mermaid

Stephan Bibrowski
(Lionel the Lion-faced Man)

Current Wonders

Niagara Falls

Precious Moments Chapel

SCIENCE AND LIFE GALLERY, MELBOURNE MUSEUM, CARLTON

Paris - musee de la chasse et de la nature

(the boar in the center bottom speaks!)

Marcel Duchamp, 1938

Leonora Carrington, 1942

Louise Bourgeois, 1948

Georges Maciunas, 1966

Jane Hammond, 2003

Nicolas Lampert, 2006

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Solar Set), 1956

Mark Dion
collections - as - art

SCALA NATURAE, 1994

Mark Dion, 1994

Mark Dion, 1998

Mark Dion, 1998

Mark Dion, 2002

Mark Dion, 1991

Daniel Speorri, 1990

Thomas Grunfeld, 1992

Beauvais Lyons, 2010

Don Krumpos 1974 - ??

Student of Kristy Deetz His senior show thesis was his Wunderkammer

Don Krumpos, 2007

Don Krumpos, 2008-2012