October 2011
03 October 2011- 14 November 2011
8 October 2011
ABNORMAL: CONVERSATION WITH JU GOSLING
1pm
Hunterian Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons of England,
35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
Ju Gosling talks and answers questions about her exhibition Abnormal, the residency at the National Institute of Medical Research which led to its creation and the installation she made for the Hunterian Museum, the Memory Jar Collection. Ju will also
discuss her accompanying book, Abnormal: How Britain became body dysphoric and the key to a cure. Chaired by Hunterian Museum director Dr Sam Alberti.
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/documents/hunterian_events_brochure_aug-dec.pdf
14 October 2011
CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY: TURNING 20
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre
Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
An anniversary programme, featuring the restaging project Set and Reset/ Reset with Trisha Brown Dance Company, a new work by Rachid Ouramdane and a solo by Matthias Sperling. This performance is part of Dance Umbrella 2011.
18 October 2011
DISABILITY, MEDICINE AND MUSEUMS
7pm - 9pm
Hunterian Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons of England,
35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
Ju Gosling, artist; Jocelyn Dodd and Professor Richard Sandell, University of Leicester; Professor Gus McGrouther, plastic and reconstructive surgeon; Dr Ruth Richardson, medical historian.
Disabled people, where represented in museums, are often defined by a medical condition or physical impairment. Nowhere more so than in medical museums, where the human specimen is shown as an example of a disease, injury or illness. Little consideration is given to the person who was once connected to a broken limb or a 'tuberculous spine'. Join us for an evening discussion where an expert panel will examine how the ‘social model’ of disability can re-interpret and re-present the human behind the medical condition.
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/events/disability-medicine-and-museums