Date: Sunday, March 13th
Time: 10.30 am - 8pm
Admission: $25 - $20 for Morbid Anatomy Members
Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn NY
Afterparty at Halyards (406 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215)
Tickets Here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2501838
Please join the Morbid Anatomy Museum for the second iteration of our “Festival of Arcane Knowledge.” The day will feature MC Evan Michelson of TV’s Oddities introducing a full day of short talks, offbeat tours, demonstrations, screenings and projections by our unique community of makers, teachers, collectors and rogue scholars. Following the day’s activities we’ll host a private after party at Halyards, our favorite local bar. Hope you can make it!
Confirmed participants include serial killer scholar Harold Schechter; Andi Harriman with a short reprise of her Desire for Dramaticism: Semiotics of the 1980s Goth Subculture, Phantasmaphile founder Pam Grossmann; Guardian columnist Jess Zimmerman; alchemist Brian Cotnoir; swordswallower Ilise Carter, artist Rebecca Purcell; Films curated by Mike Sappol, historian of the National Library of Medicine; A show and Tell by Mike Zohn of TV’s Oddities; Aaron Rodrigez with his insect and arachnid petting zoo; programmer in residence Shannon Taggart; perfumist Alexis Carl; hair artist in residence Karen Bachmann; Seth Gopin of Rutgers University; and much more!
Beer will be provided free of charge and lovingly by Brooklyn Brewery
SCHEDULE
MCed by Evan Michelson (TV’s Oddities, Obscura Antiques)
10.30am - Intro
11.00am - Pam Grossman (Phantasmaphile) - Art and The Occult
11.30am - Seth Gopin (Rutgers University) - Paris Catacombs
12.00pm - John Whitenight (Collector, Author of Under Glass: A Victorian Obsession) - Memento Mori, Stuffed pets and Hair Raising Cemeteries, a Show and Tell of Objects from the John Whitenight Collection
12.30pm - Andi Harriman - A Desire for Dramaticism: Semiotics of the 1980s Goth Subculture
1.00pm - Three Short films from the National Library of Medicine, curated by Michael Sappol (NLM Historian)
1.30pm - Harold Schechter (Serial Killer author and specialist) - Belle Gunness, the Arch-Murderess
2.00pm - Lunch Break
3.30pm - Karen Bachmann (Hair Artist in Residence) - Cursed Gemstones: Legend and History
4.00pm - Brian Cotnoir (Alchemist in Residence) - Alchemy, color symbolism and the ascent of the soul.
4.30pm - Mike Zohnn (TV’s Oddities, Obscura Antiques) - Mexican Pulp Art - Show and Tell
5.00pm - Alexis Carl - Ritual in Scent
5.30pm - Ilise S. Carter (Performer, Writer) - Female Freaks: Sex, Science and Sideshow
6.00pm Dylan Thuras and Michelle Enemark (Atlas Obscura) : Enjoy your deathstination: The long history of dark tourism
6.30pm - Jess Zimmerman (Guardian Columnist) - The Puzzle Book that Drove England to Madness
7.00pm - Shannon Taggart (Programmer in Residence) - Abnormal, Non-Natural, Holy: Michael Jackson as Modern Myth
IN THE CAFE:
2pm - 5pm: Aaron Rodriguez and his Insect Petting Zoo
5pm to 6pm - Rebecca Purcell (Artist, Stylist) reading her custom tarot cards
IN THE MUSEUM
3pm - Laetitia Barbier (Morbid Anatomy Head Librarian): Milagritos - Private devotion and catholic vernacular practices in the collection of The Morbid Anatomy Library
AfterParty at Halyards starting at 7.30pm !
Image: Cats being instructed In the art of mouse-catching by an owl ,Oil on canvas, c. 1700, Lombard School
Image: Cats being instructed In the art of mouse-catching by an owl ,Oil on canvas, c. 1700, Lombard School
