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MICKEY is pleased to present Civilization of Happiness, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Micah Schippa-Wildfong.
CIVILIZATION OF HAPPINESS
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3rd September, 1775, the surgeon John Hunter dissects an electric eel. He will discover the electrophysiology of the knifefish, how it generates its electric field and how it uses this field to sense its surroundings and kill its prey. Also in 1775, the American physician and politician Hugh Williamson, who had studied with Hunter, presented a paper “Experiments and observations on the Gymnotus Electricus, or electric eel” at the Royal Society. He reported a series of experiments, such as “7. In order to discover whether the eel killed those fish by an emission of the same [electrical] fluid with which he affected my hand when I had touched him, I put my hand into the water, at some distance from the eel; another knife-fish was thrown into the water; the eel swam up to it … [and] gave it a shock, by which it instantly turned up its…
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MICKEY is pleased to present Civilization of Happiness, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Micah Schippa-Wildfong.
CIVILIZATION OF HAPPINESS
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3rd September, 1775, the surgeon John Hunter dissects an electric eel. He will discover the electrophysiology of the knifefish, how it generates its electric field and how it uses this field to sense its surroundings and kill its prey. Also in 1775, the American physician and politician Hugh Williamson, who had studied with Hunter, presented a paper “Experiments and observations on the Gymnotus Electricus, or electric eel” at the Royal Society. He reported a series of experiments, such as “7. In order to discover whether the eel killed those fish by an emission of the same [electrical] fluid with which he affected my hand when I had touched him, I put my hand into the water, at some distance from the eel; another knife-fish was thrown into the water; the eel swam up to it … [and] gave it a shock, by which it instantly turned up its…
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