{"id":375,"date":"2017-01-25T08:29:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T08:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/?p=375"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T13:17:15","slug":"mundus-subterraneous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/2017\/01\/25\/mundus-subterraneous\/","title":{"rendered":"Mundus Subterraneous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2016\/01\/SarahCraskeMundusSubterraneousFilmStill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-230\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2016\/01\/SarahCraskeMundusSubterraneousFilmStill-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"SarahCraskeMundusSubterraneousFilmStill\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2016\/01\/SarahCraskeMundusSubterraneousFilmStill-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2016\/01\/SarahCraskeMundusSubterraneousFilmStill-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2016\/01\/SarahCraskeMundusSubterraneousFilmStill-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2016\/01\/SarahCraskeMundusSubterraneousFilmStill-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2016\/01\/SarahCraskeMundusSubterraneousFilmStill-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mundus Subterraneous<\/em>, the Templeman Library&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/2015\/06\/15\/the-templeman-librarys-first-art-commission\/\">first commissioned art installation<\/a>, is an exciting new piece by artist in residence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahcraske.co.uk\/\">Sarah Craske<\/a>, revealing the microscopic\u00a0life forms hidden in the Library.<\/p>\n<p>It opened on 21 March 2016, and is on show in the Templeman Gallery at various times throughout the year, among\u00a0other events.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah forensically swabbed items from our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/specialcollections\/\">Special Collections<\/a>\u00a0to collect the\u00a0microflora growing on them. She then cultivated them and documented their growth, blending it with an image from Athanasius Kircher&#8217;s seventeenth-century work\u00a0<em>Mundus Subterraneus<\/em> from our collections. Using macro and timelapse photography, digital and analogue technologies, Sarah has created a short film depicting\u00a0the beauty of the unseen microbial world in\u00a0our books.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahcraske.co.uk\/mundus_subterraneous\">Watch\u00a0the full installation and project background<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/visiting\/\">Templeman Gallery: visitor information<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pictured above: a still from the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mundus Subterraneous, the Templeman Library&#8217;s\u00a0first commissioned art installation, is an exciting new piece by artist in residence Sarah Craske, revealing the microscopic\u00a0life forms hidden in the Library. It opened on 21 March 2016, and is on show in the Templeman Gallery at various times throughout the year, among\u00a0other events. Sarah forensically swabbed items from our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157292],"tags":[157296,157293,20358,157295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}