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Life of Bone brings into sharp relief, and interrogates, the abutting practices of the scientific and the artistic, practices which have co-existed since the beginning of our species. It's based on an exhibition, scheduled to open in May 2011 at the Origins Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand. This exhibition will display the original fossil skull of the Taung child hominid alongside artworks by Joni Brenner, Gerhard Marx and Karel Nel made specifically in response to these evolutionarily significant remains. This unique combination of paleoanthropological finds and art prompts a range of enquiries on the nature of both artistic and scientific disciplines, and encourages a dialogue between the very distant historic and the contemporary.

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Obsessions and impulses; history, ancestry, genes; being-craft; part of the story; of words and skulls; where do we come from? who are we? where are we going?; matter out of place; cartographer of consciousness

Life of Bone: The Taung Fossil and Thre South

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    A Hardback by Joni Brenner, Elizabeth Burroughs, Karel Nel

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      Publisher: Wits University Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/2011
      ISBN13: 9781868145393, 978-1868145393
      ISBN10: 1868145395

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Life of Bone brings into sharp relief, and interrogates, the abutting practices of the scientific and the artistic, practices which have co-existed since the beginning of our species. It's based on an exhibition, scheduled to open in May 2011 at the Origins Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand. This exhibition will display the original fossil skull of the Taung child hominid alongside artworks by Joni Brenner, Gerhard Marx and Karel Nel made specifically in response to these evolutionarily significant remains. This unique combination of paleoanthropological finds and art prompts a range of enquiries on the nature of both artistic and scientific disciplines, and encourages a dialogue between the very distant historic and the contemporary.

      Table of Contents
      Obsessions and impulses; history, ancestry, genes; being-craft; part of the story; of words and skulls; where do we come from? who are we? where are we going?; matter out of place; cartographer of consciousness

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