![]() There are things which were once articulated but now have become disarticulated and so, in a sense, inarticulate. Abandoned human remains are, however, not as unusual as we may think. We may even be uncomfortable about thinking about it in these terms. ![]() To, in effect, recycle it, by creating and curating a series of assemblages within which it would once again have value.ġBut before all this work there was a “lost” skull. Our project, which is described more fully below, was to take this skull and make something of it. It was discovered amidst bits of disassembled computer equipment, tattered box files, a headless mannequin, loops of electrical cord, yellow post-it notes and discarded sheets of chipboard. That thing was a human skull found in the storerooms of the Edinburgh College of Art. “Waste matter”, if you will – a thing which is surplus to, or in excess of, immediate requirements and so, somewhat perversely, also lacks utility by virtue of its being abandoned by any purposive arrangement that would suggest it being caught up in an intentional project of some sort. ![]() At the heart of this project was something leftover, abject and neglected. This paper began as a project, entitled “the bones beneath the face”, undertaken by a collective of artists, anthropologists and archaeologists at the University of Edinburgh 1. ![]() 1 Those involved in the “Bones Beneath the Face Project” were John Harries and Joost Fontein, with So (.). ![]()
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