Date: 12.30 – 2.00pm, Thursday 22nd February
Location: Seminar Room 6,Chrystal MacMillan Building,15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Title: Positively Squishy – creative research in the lab
Speaker: Beverley Hood, artist and lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Edinburgh.
Abstract:
In an environment where bioscientific research undertaking “qualitative field-based inquiries with living people or living organisms are increasingly regarded as naïve or amateurish” (Ingold, 2016), creative practice researchers have a unique ability to undertake “positively squishy” (Ingold, 2016) approaches to inquiry, and act as agents of correspondence.
In this presentation, Beverley will talk about undertaking a micro-residency in the laboratory of Professor Sara Brown, an eczema genetic research lab, within the School of Medicine, University of Dundee, organised by ASCUS Art & Science, and funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Arts & Ethics Research Group. This research and development residency involved observing the day to day activities of the lab, from carefully nurturing skin cell cultures, to the precise, complex and delicate processes used to analyse these samples. Beverley will discuss the series of experimental creative works, developed in response to this, which attempt to immerse the viewer in the lab, by embodying the poetic, human and ethical issues that it’s work raises.
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