TAXIDERMICLABORATORY

byAmber Veel

theCABINET

ofWORK XI.

TRANSGRESSIONPOINTS

The CABINET OF CURIOSITIES is a collection ofspecimens and objects to reflect the particular curiositiesof their curators, whose categorical boundaries are yet tobe defined.

This edition of THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIESwas generated on February 16, 2016

5 .E V E N T H O R I Z O NSource: Event Horizon. (n.d.) In Wikipedia. RetrievedJanuary 20, 2016.

In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary inspacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outsideobserver.The event horizon as a skin between life and death.

1 9 .M A R K M Y L I P SSource: Copy from book: 'Cover to un.cover' by GieneSteenman.

2 3 .H O L L O W B O D Y - S K I NO P E N I N GSource: unknown

2 5 .B O R D E R A S A NE X C H A N G E L O C A T I O NSource: Written quote from book: 'The craftsman', by R.Sennett.

I look at the skin as a (bodily)border. What kind ofexchange is taking place through the skin border? Andwhich organims will be more interactive around theskin?

5 0 .F L A Y E DSource: Copy from book: 'Lovers Discourse' by RolandBarthes.

What remains after skin is taken away: a mass of irritablesubstance.The resistance of the skin varies depending on the placewhere we drive in the knife; skin is not isotopic.

5 9 .H A I R : I N - O R O U T S I D ESource: Sketch by Amber Veel.

Summer-clothing is worn with the hairs on the inside.Winter-clothing is worn with the hairs on the outside(worn on top of the summer garment).

7 3 .V E S A L I U SSource: Copy from book: 'Het menselijk lichaam' by Dr. J.H.van den Berg.

Vesalius - one of the founders of modern anatomy - wasthe first one to discover the skin as a separate organ. As alayer covering the inner body. Before Vesalius it seemslike people thought that the human body was one solid‘lump’ of meat.

8 0 .B O G B O D YSource:http://www.geschiedenisleraar.info/blog/?tag=veenlijken

A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturallymummified in a peat bog. Unlike most ancient humanremains, bog bodies have retained their skin due to theunusual conditions of the surrounding area.

8 2 .L I F E S I Z E B O D YE X P E R I E N C ESource: Writing by Amber Veel.

8 8 .A A R D A P P E L K R A B B E R SO F P I J P E N K O P P E N ( N L )Source: Copy from book: 'Het vergeten landleven' by: IngeborgWind, page 56.

When taking out the patatoes out of the earth, it wasnessisary to protect your fingers from glass, stone andsplinters.