Dirt: The filthy reality of everyday life

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Permalink Reply by Liz on July 12, 2011 at 13:09

I like that you think of me, Hugh,  when you're out even if its only when you spot things about dirt and rubbish :0 and not surprisingly Alan Stanton can be found in that Flickr group!

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on July 12, 2011 at 13:10

Thanks for the reminder, Hugh. I'd planned to go along to this. Its starting point is the work of the anthropologist Mary Douglas and her classic book Purity and Danger.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on July 27, 2011 at 9:40

We went to this free exhibition yesterday and I recommend a visit before it closes on 31 August.

Please don't be put off by the vacuous YouTube video or my reference to Mary Douglas. The exhibition rolls up its sleeves and shovels the topic. You'll discover the origin of the word tosh and see photos of mudlarks. That Joseph Bazalgette the sewer engineer originally accepted 'miasma' as the cause of cholera. There's the ground breaking Peckam Health Centre, and a video from an Indian Toilet Museum. With art made from dust; and a jewelled broom.

It finishes with a hill of garbage, with thought provoking film and interviews from Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island. 

More on the Wellcome Trust website.  Have other HoL members visited? What did you think?

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Permalink Reply by Liz on July 29, 2011 at 12:23

Resonance FM are holding a Dirty Weekend on Saturday and Sunday  July 30, 12pm – July 31, 12am

A weekend of talks and music pertaining to filth, dirt and sanitation produced in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection to augment the current exhibition at the Wellcome Collection - Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life.

Find out how to listen to Resonance FM here

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