You Took The Part That Once Was My Heart
You Took The Part That Once Was My Heart

text Sybren Renema ; editor Timmy van Zoelen

Auteur(s)
Sybren Renema
Editor(s)
Timmy van Zoelen
Uitgever
Den Haag : Sybren Rennema & Timmy van Zoelen, 2012
Omvang
160 p., geïllustreerd, 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.


Persoon als onderwerp
Timmy van Zoelen
Trefwoorden
spirituality , trees , archives
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 11 - 3: Archieven en collecties
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