This is an interdisciplinary book about objects and people in museums and galleries. It deals with the fundamentals of human experience of objects. Chapters explore some of the ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a symptomatically defined and debilitating condition that presents as a range of physiological and psychological effects. Post-exertional fatigue and ongoing low energy levels are cardinal fea…
Relics and the Eucharist, powerful physical links between the divine and the human, sit at the heart of narratives about twelfth-century English religious conflicts. These conflicts centered around internal strife between Jews and Christians, prior to the Jews' expulsion from En…
I don't think an object starts and ends within the object itself. This essay investigate objects and narratives and the different utilities attributed to both. Through sculpture, photography and installation I investigate how we through the development of time has managed to not…
Remembering Objects explores the relationship between memory, narrative and material culture. Assigning value to objects beyond their monetary or material worth is an inherent act entangled in the human condition. Material culture has an innate ability to manifest memory and nar…
Between the sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the Shiite Safavids of Iran and the Sunni Ottomans of Turkey--two of the greatest Islamic empires in history--developed a complex relationship in which tenuous peace alternated with bloody conflict, often with dizzying speed. …