Museum of Extinction

The Field Ornithology Collection

Authors

• Natalie Field NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142530

Keywords:

speculative taxidermy, materiality, museology, re-imagining, extinction

Abstract

This artistic research project combines an exploration of natural history conservation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and museology at Museene i Sør-Trøndelag. The exposition is structured around Field Notes: qualitative records of my observations. Taking an ethnographic and interpretive phenomenological approach, I argue my hypothesis through the subjective experiences of the living, as well as the living dead. Drawing a correlation between the utilitarian subjugation of the animal-other and loss of biodiversity, I posit that the re-presentation of animal materialities in art and artefacts has the potential to re-form culture in the time of the sixth extinction.