- Essayfilm / Lecture Performance
- Time: 2022
Theatrum Osteologicum is a film on (the city of more-than-human) bones, chimeras, and haunting. In our cities, we live together with a multitude of species. Our living together and their lives are being troubled by diverging interests and the harsh living conditions in the cities we’ve mainly built for ourselves. And some of these more-than-human lifeforms lived in our cities to countless numbers – they involuntarily helped us build them. What about those ones we’ve forgotten, where the only remains are bones and, sometimes, stories?
This short experimental video is a destillate of 15 months of research in London's waterways, museums, archives, and the artist's studio including previously unpublished research material such as geophone field recordings, 3D-scans, and virtual representations of domesticated animal bones found in the river Thames, in the heart of London, where the markets and the slaughterhouses were located.