1 Mar 2020
In February 2020, artist Nick Laessing and I devised and ran a week-long free introductory course for those interested in studying ecologies of making in a wider sense, with Slade School of Fine Art, located in Hackney Wick at Yard Theatre’s community space Hub 67.
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19 Oct 2019
At Fungifest, the Roving Microscope and I presented an encounter with microscopic fungi, and I led a workshop making personal medicinal mushroom broths using fungi growing wild in London, collected with the help of John the Poacher.
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1 Sep 2019
An up-close and personal sensory exploration of human-material-microbe interaction, through mudlarking, microscopy, biscuit making and creative writing together. Where do microbes like to live? How do we feel about the materials in our environment? Can looking really closely change our feelings and behaviour towards other matter and ecosystems?
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6 Mar 2018
Sat 17 March 2018, 10:00 – 17:00
A one-day hands-on workshop at the Calthorpe community project on the theme of food production, sustainability and closing the energy loop with artist researchers from the Slade School of Art. Join an experiment to test a hydroponic plant machine, originally devised by NASA and make your own vegetarian closed loop sausages.
21 Dec 2017
18 – 20 December 2017: three sausage making research workshops, Slade Research Centre, then at Woburn Square. I asked researchers from across disciplines to think together about the borders of human and non-human matter, our human relationship to the food we eat, and how we cook, through the delicious metaphor of the sausage and sausage […]
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8 May 2017
An experimental sensory encounter with sugar as a shape-shifting material: a liquid, a glass, a fibre, a foam and a crystal, and its transformative properties upon history, culture, our bodies and our future.
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