text Sybren Renema ; editor Timmy van Zoelen
- Author(s)
- Sybren Renema
- Editor(s)
- Timmy van Zoelen
- Publication
- Den Haag : Sybren Rennema & Timmy van Zoelen, 2012
- Scope
- 160 Pages, illustrated, 22 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789090266541
This publication, together with the similar titled exhibition, was the result of an international research project by artists Sybren Renema and Timmy van Zoelen into the afterlife of the trees associated with David Livingstone. Drawing on the remarkable collection of the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Sybren Renema and Timmy van Zoelen have assembled over 20 wooden objects and tree fragments for display at Glasgow University’s Hunterian Museum. Hoping to shed new light on the Scot whose missionary travels and “disappearance” in Africa gave him almost mythical status, the artists have set themselves the task of assembling the scattered fragments of David Livingstone’s ‘funeral tree’, the African muvla tree under which the explorer’s heart was buried by his loyal servants after his death in 1873 in present-day Zambia.YOU TOOK THE PART THAT ONCE WAS MY HEART was commissioned for The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, by Glasgow-based artists’ collective The Mutual as part of The Mutual Charter in association with Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012.
- Person as subject
- Timmy van Zoelen
- Keywords
- spirituality , trees , archives
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Archieven en collecties
- Remarks
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