Botched Anatomy/Mark Dion

    In The Postmodern Animal, by Steve Baker, I encountered the concept of "botched taxidermy".  After investigating examples of these and reading about the multidimensional meanings constructed by creating something that does not already exist.  The practice is usually that of those experienced in taxidermy.

    Steve Baker explained in The Postmodern Animal: “A botched taxidermy piece might be defined as referring to the human and to the animal, without itself being either human or animal, and without its being a direct representation of either. It is an attempt to think a new thing…Neither species, nor genus, nor individual, each one is open both to endless interpretation and, more compellingly still, to the refusal of interpretation…They are perhaps things with which to think, rather than themselves being things to be thought about…"


Here is a piece of literature available on the subject.

http://www.johnisaacs.net/press_files/ANTENNAE_7_2008.pdf

Examples of botched taxidermy...they get pretty weird..

It is noteworthy that Mark Dion received honorable mention in Baker's book, and also was a recent guest artist speaker at school.  I was thunderstruck by his fabricated relics, and presentations. 

Installation.  Huh.

Here is the pic of the current felcan prototype.  The answer to all your questions is...yes.

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