Exhibitions and other events
Exhibitions
Exhibition "Between Shade and Darkness: The Fate of the Jews of Luxembourg Between 1940 and 1945". Venue: University Of Luxembourg. In partnership with the Musée de la Résistence.
Exhibition "Légionnaires ". The exhibition « Légionnaires » is the outcome of a collaboration between the C²DH and the Musée Dräi Eechelen, bringing together the results of a quinquennial investigation on the Luxembourgers in the French Foreign Legion conducted at the University of Luxembourg as well as the work of local specialists, public historians, and international experts. The exhibition represents also the last phase of Éischte Weltkrich, a digital public history project on the experience of WW1 in Luxembourg.
Exhibition : "Aux Frontières de l'Humain" au Musée de l'Homme, Trocadéro, Paris. Co-elaboration of the "we are cyborgs" room, the room on "funeral rites and the will to prolong life" and the exhibition catalogue. This multimedia exhibition proposes the use of anthropology and other disciplines to look at humanity through a plurality of convergent approaches. It represents a contemporary works of art, museographic items, multimedia devices and audiovisual screening create a full tour wondering about the very essence of humanity. This co-production is related to Maxime Derian's doctoral and post-doctoral work on the history of the augmented or repaired human, the possibilities of hybridization of humans and machines, AI and the ongoing "cyborgization" of industrial societies.
The Laboratory of Psychical Research
Sound Installation at Senate House, University of London
A reimagining of The National Laboratory of Psychical Research established in 1926 by Harry Price, psychic investigator. Visitors explored laboratory equipment and toy instruments that were used to detect activity of unseen psychic forces. Using a bespoke smartphone app and headphones, visitors listened to historical recordings of spiritualist séances overlaid with newly-created soundscapes inspired by the history of psychical research. The Laboratory of Psychical Research sound installation was created by Aleksander Kolkowski, kitt price, and Laurence Cliffe. It was produced especially for the Media of Mediumship research project as part of the Being Human Festival of the Humanities, 2021, hosted in partnership with Senate House Library, University of London. A short video presentation of the installation is currently streaming on the Media of Mediumship YouTube channel.
Other events
Mental Radio: Radiophonic Montage
Aleksander Kolkowski and kitt price recreate the experience of ’thinking-in’, when thousands of listeners engaged in radio telepathy experiments during the 1920s and '30s. British and American parapsychologists insisted that broadcasting was simply a means to access minds in the mass, but European investigators claimed they had captured the sound of ‘brain waves’ using radio equipment. 'Mental Radio' reanimates the archived protocols of mass telepathy, mixing the signals received by listeners with the soundscapes of the early twentieth century’s radiating brain. Commissioned as part of The Media of Mediumship, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. MENTAL RADIO was first broadcast by Resonance FM on 31 October 2021, 7–8 pm. It is currently streaming on the Media of Mediumship YouTube channel.