Palmer, J. Cole, T, Hampson S, 2003.
The Field Hospital
| Output Type: | Exhibition |
| Venue: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Dates: | May-October 2003 |
| Number of Works: | 3 |
1. Collaborative installation by Judith Palmer, Tim Cole & Sally Hampson. A site-specific wooden building made from reclaimed materials, presented as an old research station, housing hundreds of made and found artefacts.
2. Additonal relational projects by Judith Palmer operating within the installation.
a) "Tales from the Field Hospital": a series of performative interventions about domestic remedies and plant superstitions, then written up daily and exhibited as text artefacts.
b) "Remembered Remedies": an interactive artwork collecting home cures. After the exhibition the data collected was transfered to the EthnoMedica Archive.
Documentation includes: 2 episodes of BBC TV documentary A Year at Kew; photographic and video record; web-page; reviews, features and interviews including Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, The Lancet, BBC1 news, BBC Radio 4 You & Yours. It was also the subject of a question on BBC2's The Weakest Link.
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