Mark Dion: misadventures of a 21st-century naturalist

Director's foreword / Jill Medvedow

Into the field / Ruth Erickson

Mark Dion's tropical ecology / James Nisbet

Wonders of the sea / Andrea Barrett

Some notes toward a manifesto for artists working with or about the living world / Mark Dion

Of collectivities and emergent possibilities : Mildred's Lane / Petra Lange-Berndt

On culture in action / mark Dion in conversation with Mary Jane Jacob

Selected projects. Reshuffling the university and gestures of hope / Colleen J. Sheehy. Cabinet of curiosities, 2001 ; The museum and the marvelous / Lucy Bradnock. Bureau of the Center for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, 2005 ; A scrapbook, a journal, a time capsule / Sarah Suzuki. Fragments of travel, exploration and adventure, 2007 ; A naturalist's return / Kathrinne Duffy. Travels of William Bartram - reconsidered, 2008 ; A bunker of one's own / Denise Markonish. The octagon room, 2008 ; Encountering Daedalus : a letter to Mark Dion / Sarina Basta. Oceanomania : souvenirs of mysterious seas - from The expedition to the aquarium, 2011. Extranaturel, 2016 ; The strenuous life / Lisa G. Corrin. Phantoms of the Clark Expedition, 2012 ; Lost worlds (In the jungle with Mark Dion) / Alastair Gordon. Dr. Fairchild's Kampong laboratory, 2016

Selections from the exhibition. Scala naturae, 1994 ; Killers killed, 1994-2007 ; Les nécrophores - l'enterrement (Hommage à Jean-Henri Fabre), 1997 ; The Ladies' Field Club of New York, 1999 ; South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit : mobile laboratory, 2006 ; Den, 2012 ; Harbingers of the fifth season, 2014 ; Memory Box, 2016

Exhibition chronology / compiled by Jessica Hong

Checklist of the exhibition.