Cut and clipped bodies by Oejerum

See his work on his website: http://oejerum.dk/

Queering Eco-Psychology and Post-Anthropocene Dreams

The recent Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in Copenhagen was a wild ride, replete with considerations of refiguring human-plant relationships and experimenting with algae, bacteria, and chlorophyll in art. Here are some images of conference-related happenings:

The Art of Sigrid Sara

See text via The Order of the Good Death. Here are some images to get you started on a fascinating journey:

The artist also has a crowdfunding campaign to create a series in New Orleans. $500 gets you a diseased hand, mouth, or eye! Donate more and you can get your own face immortalized in wax!

The Historical Body in Copenhagen

First the Medical Museion:

Reconstruction of the torso of Alexis St. Martin, who was observed for years by William Beaumont after a gunshot wound turned into a fistula with a direct view of the insides of the stomach.

Kidney stone 

Glass eyes

Former anatomical theater

Reconstructed apothecary

Preserved fetus in utero

Preserved head showing veins

Preserved foot showing tendons

Hand showing tendons

Forest of spines

Conjoined twins

Dissection table

Former anatomy theater

Spanish flies used as irritants

Cholera sample

Padded box for psychiatric patients

Prosthetic leg

Prosthetic arm

Surgical chair

And from the National Museum of Denmark:

For more On this miniature wax cadaver and much larger ivory skeleton See HERE.

Get Your Vampire Study On

Some scholarly sources on vampires in New England:


Bell (2004), Vampires and death in New England, 1784 to 1892 http://www.yorku.ca/kdenning/+++2150%202007-8/BellVampiresandDeath.pdf


Sledzik & Bellantoni (1994), Vioarcheological and biocultural evidence for the New England vampire folk beliefhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8085617