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GUEST POST: A jar of pickled moles, haunting trees, Friday disasters and anatomy museum corpses- a smorgasbord of interesting things from curator Neil Lebeter
I am very excited to present today’s post, a bevy of fascinating things selected by curator Neil Lebeter. Neil is archivist curator at the New Art Gallery Walsall, where he is currently working with the very cool Bob and Roberta … Continue reading
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Tagged curiosities, grotesque, haunting, installation, institution, moles, museum, outsider art, sculpture, textile, trees
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Prisoners’ Inventions Project by Temporary Services
Temporary Services is an artist collective (made up of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer) based out of Chicago, who create activist-minded public projects which challenge conventional forms of public expression. One ridiculously interesting project they’ve undertaken is Prisoners’ … Continue reading
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Agnes Richter’s embroidered straightjacket
Agnes Richter was a German seamstress held as a patient in an insane asylum during the 1890s. During her time there, she densely embroidered her straightjacket with words, undecipherable phrases and drawings which documented her thoughts and feelings throughout her … Continue reading
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