Open Access resource - interdisciplinary exhibition making

Following our exhibition The World is in You at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in 2021, the Medical Museion team is delighted to present a new Open Access publication about making interdisciplinary research-driven exhibitions. The whole text is available for download here.

The World is in You was an exhibition about our entangled bodies and how our milieu impacts our health, in the past and now. Moving across art, science and history, rather than providing answers it aimed to provoke questions. In practice, making the exhibition involved working across disciplines, bringing together scientists and artists, making new commissions, and incorporating academic research into a public-display.

In the publication, the exhibition team reflect on different aspects of the exhibition from text writing to content to design, art commissioning and audience research. It is part catalogue, part academic publication and part ‘how to’ that we hope will be interesting to anyone working in interdisciplinary exhibitions. I was very pleased to contribute chapters on visitor research, on curating time, and on the commission of the artwork ‘Time Animals’.