Capitance

Title

Capitance

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Description

"Strategies such as juxtapositioning also served to highlight poetic and emotive qualities in fields not known for encouraging them, as in a cabinet curated by Langerman titled Capitance. This featured a range of instruments from the Physics department used to measure electrical currents (galvanometers, capacitors and Wheatstone bridges); a crystal goniometer measuring crystal face angles and crystal 175 from the crystal collection in Geological Sciences; M.R. Drennan’s models of the human embryo and a wax model of flesh; and a white tutu from the School of Ballet. In combining this selection of scientific instruments with a tutu, Langerman made allowance for the materials to be considered in a more poetic light, inviting the viewer to consider how a grand jeté defies the laws of physics, for example" (Liebenberg 2021: 186).

Access Rights

Centre for Curating the Archive

Curriculum

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air See all items with this value

On the External Characters of Minerals See all items with this value

url

https://issuu.com/cca.uct/docs/curiosity_for_web

Creator

Fritha Langerman See all items with this value

Date Created

2004

Source

Department of Physics, UCT

Skotnes, P., Langerman, F. & Van Embden, G. 2004. Curiosity CLXXV: A paper cabinet. Cape Town: LLAREC Series in Visual History.

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Type

Text

Photo

Exhibition

Item sets

99_LBNNIN001

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

On the External Characters of Minerals

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Materials

The Medicine Chest

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