Join us for this unique Eco- and Bioart Lab webinar – first this academic year – with artist and researcher Dr Tarsh Bates (Umeå University, SE), which takes place on 26th October 2023 at 13:15 – 15:00 CEST on Zoom!

For info on how to register – please, see below!

S(c)en(t)sory Foraging: the eros of olfaction in multi-species metabolisms

About the webinar:

This seminar presents an overview of Tarsh Bates’ artistic research with the human as a queer ecology, taking seriously the agency and response-ability of micro-organisms within this ecology, attempting to understand and navigate the microbiopolitics of multi-species Umwelten. Tarsh presents previous voyages in the CandidaHomo ecology and introduces a new project which ventures into the tactility and in/tangibility of olfaction in multi-species digestions. Odorants are fundamental within metabolic processes, ingested, digested, excreted through the living, the non-living and the semi-living. This project positions olfaction as a transcorporeal, queer sense-ability, a microbiopolitical eros.

Respondent: Prof. Em. Nina Lykke (Linköping University)

Bio:

Tarsh Bates has a PhD from SymbioticA (University of Western Australia) and has worked as a pizza delivery driver, a fruit and vegetable stacker, a toilet-paper packer, a compost researcher, a honeybee ejaculator, a gallery invigilator, a raspberry picker, an academic, an editor, a bookkeeper, a car detailer, and a life drawing model. They are currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Design & Molecular Biology at Umeå University, Sweden. The are enamoured with Candida albicans.

Nina Lykke, PhD, is a poet-philosopher and Professor Emerita of Gender Studies at Linköping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She* has participated in the building of Feminist Studies in Scandinavia and Europe more broadly since the 1970s. She* is co-founder of the International Network for Queer Death Studies. Her* monographs include: Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010), and Vibrant Death (2022).

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Image included in the poster: Tarsh Bates, Foraging action – time for ink to run out (2023)

Now, if you missed the webinar in real time, we have something special for you – the recording on our channel on YouTube! Please, check it out below: