VMM’s visual essays and online exhibitions – offbeat and off the beaten track
Mira Marcinów’s Five Fundamental Feelings as Five Fingers is one of flagship online exhibitions produced by Virtual Museums of Małopolska (VMM). Hand-picked guest curators – experts in diverse domains of science, culture, and art – arrange and juxtapose together, often in a surprising and novel way, our digitised exhibits, whose physical originals are an integral part of museum collections in the region. These curated treasure troves serve as a catalyst for creating layered, richly illustrated contextual narratives. Some of them are available as online audio books – they are read (currently only in Polish) by well-known voices related to Małopolska. For the list of our virtual exhibitions, click here.
Author
Mira Marcinów
Philosopher, psychologist, and writer. Author of Szaleństwo jako wybór (2012), Niezabliźniona rana Narcyza (2018, co-written with Bartłomiej Dobroczyński), Historia polskiego szaleństwa (2018, shortlisted for the Poznań Literary Award), and critically-acclaimed Bezmatek (2020), for which she received “Paszport Polityki”, an annual Polish cultural prize awarded by the Polityka weekly, as well as the 2021 MISIE accolade. The book was also shortlisted for top Polish prizes, such as the 2021 Nike Literary Award and the Joseph Conrad Award. Graduate of psychology and philosophy at Jagiellonian University’s Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities, where she subsequently defended her doctoral thesis in psychology. Employed by the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Co-founder of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Thought at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy. Shortlisted for the 2019 Polityka Science Award.
Fingers on the pulse
Text: Mira Marcinów, CC-BY 4.0 PL
Idea: Kinga Kołodziejska (VMM)
Editorial assistance: Kinga Kołodziejska, Marta Dvořák (VMM)
Graphic design, illustrations: Kira Pietrek, CC-BY 4.0 PL
Animation: Robert Kalfas
Coding: Jan Chołoniewski
Translation: Bartosz Wójcik (VMM)
Photographs of exhibits from the collection of Virtual Museums of Małopolska.