Tuesday, October 7, 2008

I interviewed Emily Sutherland, who is doing her paper on the Bodies exhibit. This exhibit is currently traveling the world showing bodies that have been dissected and are in motion. In her paper she plans to talk about the history of the Bodies exhibit, and the history of the bodies themselves. She also wants to cover how the bodies are maintained and plasticized. This is the process in which they inject plastic into the cells so the bodies remain rigid during the exhibit. Another topic she plans to cover, she ran across during her research, and that is that it is rumored that there is a possibility that some of the cadavers may have been former prisoners, who were imprisoned only so that their bodies could be used in the exhibit. All in all it sounds like she has a very interesting topic that should turn into a neat paper.

1 comment:

Chris Brown said...

I think it would be good for Emily also to talk about the purpose of this bodies exhibit, and what has been discovered or seen because of it.