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Historiography, Humans, Media Library, Plants, Technologies

VIDEO: Nehemiah Grew and the Making of the Anatomy of Plants (1682), by Christoffer Basse Eriksen

How can the “invisible life” of the vegetable world be made visible by means of visual techniques? Christoffer Basse Eriksen’s lecture puts a spotlight on the innovative representational styles devised by 17th-century botanist Nehemiah Grew in his book The Anatomy of Plants (1682), aimed at the dynamic representation of the vegetal processes of generation, germination, and growth. The talk is followed by a response by Prof. Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln) and a panel discussion.

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Architectures, Media Library, Plants, Practices, Spatial Orders

VIDEO: The Forest Cons: Sylvan Reflections within Architectural Imaginaries, by Dan Handel

Architect and curator Dan Handel explores the multifaceted ways in which forests are being conceived, experienced, and transfigured through human imagination, shedding light on how silvan epiphanies may find correspondence in spatial orders and architectural designs. The talk took place on December 13, 2021 as part of the 4A_Lab online seminar series.

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Architectures, Historiography, Media Library, Practices, Spatial Orders

VIDEO: The Last Gift from Beijing: the Jesuit Gardens and the Sino-European Botanical Exchanges, by Lianming Wang

In this 4A_Lab talk, Lianming Wang contextualizes the Beijing Jesuit gardens in the framework of global dynamics of horticultural and hydraulic practice as places of fruitful transcultural encounter and scientific knowledge production. The event took place on July 12, 2021 as part of the 4A_Lab online seminar series.

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Architectures, Media Library, Spatial Orders

The Alps as a Central Periphery? Recordings from a Research Trip along the Brenner Pass

By its very nature, a crossroads is a place you pass through, briskly moving onwards to the final destination of your journey. This podcast, curated by Emily Neumeier, provides a tantalising glimpse into one of Central Europe’s busiest border zones and mountain crossings—the Brenner Pass. A polyvocal account in eight acts based on a research trip of the Max-Planck Research Group “Objects in the Contact Zone – The Cross-Cultural Lives of Things” across Italy and Austria.

Emily Neumeier

Historiography, Media Library, Objects

VIDEO: Fragments of the Spanish Conquest from the Americas: Relics or Memorials? Curator Talk with Manuela Fischer & Bat-Ami Artzi

By means of two case studies closely related to the Spanish conquest of the America, Bat-ami Artzi and Manuela Fischer reflect on the value of the fragment as an aesthetic and scientific interpretative tool within the European tradition. They also consider the role of fragments as relics and memorials, and examine their relation to questions of identity in both an Andean and European context.

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Media Library, Objects, Plants, Practices

VIDEO: Images and Psychotropic Plants in Mesoamerica, by Johannes Neurath

The consumption of hallucinogens in ritual settings was—and to some extent still is—a common practice in Mesoamerica; yet, the artistic and aesthetic implications of this phenomenon have received little attention. In this talk, Johannes Neurath presents his research on the art inspired by psychotropic experiences in the context of Mesoamerican shamanic rituals. The talk took place on October 13, 2020 as part of the 4A_Lab online seminar series.

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