Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station

27 Jan, 12 PM - 11 Feb, 12 PM

My PhD research concerns how three major apparatuses for the observation of wildlife whose respective chronologies meet at the intersection between the end of the 19th and the early decades of the 20th century have largely shaped the contemporary relation to the natural and its emphasis on the visual. These three apparatuses are the Natural History Museum (with its tradition coming from the Renaissance Wunderkammer and the Cabinet des Curiosities); the Zoological Garden (the urban and democratic evolution of the private Menagerie); and the Movie Theatre (inheritor of the tradition of the shadow play spectacles and of the apparatus of the theatre). This research aims at observing how these three figures both symbolic entities that stand within Foucault s definition of heterotopias (expand this section with writing about heterotopias), and concrete spaces whose existence plays a well-defined role in the life of most urban individuals both individually and collectively shape not only the imaginary of the natural (investigate when the idea of nature started to be used) but first and foremost have provided a consistent mode of framing and displaying nature.

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Under Project # 34471 | Research

The Current Selves - Interspecies narratives across science, art and humanities in South Pacific

graduate_student - Kingston University

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