A walk from the Phoenix Art Gallery to the sea with a radiation counter, a global tracking system, unnecessary protective suits - oh, and some members of the human race.
We explored the bacterial flora of Brighton with the Institute OF Unnecesary Research, able led by Anna.
I do love the number of curious and some concerned looks we attracted from the pubbling and restauranting public of Saturday evening Brighton. Luckily not the attraction of the police as we stickered the collected bacterial images to railings, benches and even shingle.
Sadly a suit could not be found to fit me - I am too tall (not fat). But I wore momentarily some safety goggles and a mask.
Unnecessary, irreverant and most of all, creative, inspiring and revealing.
Anna is re-inventing the cheese and questioning the nature of what is necessary. It's collusion-breaking stuff.
It left me very hungry and I went home and devoured a lot of food with added bacteria (probably not all good).
We've had a booking for Cheese in Exeter.I think I will take them the stilton version of our theatre show as the mould is very good in that version.
For info:
www.bio-tracking.annadumitriu.co.uk
Performance Walking Tour:
On 14th October 2006 starting at 5pm from the Phoenix Gallery Anna Dumitriu
will lead a guided walk around the sites included in her Photo Biennial
Fringe Project "Bio-tracking", bio-hazard precautions are unnecessary but
will be taken anyway. We will also carry GPS to track our route and a geiger
counter to take unnecessary radiation readings
Bio-tracking is a mobile phone based exhibition using GPS (Global
Positioning System) and a leading edge new smart phone software (suitable
for Nokia Series 60) called Socialight downloadable via
www.socialight.comenabling the placement of virtual sticky notes around various locations in
Brighton as part of Brighton Photo Biennial Fringe. Download the software
and wander around the sites from 7th October 2006 you’ll receive text
messages, sound files and images straight to you phones. Check out the
bio-tracking group on socialight.com for details of all the locations via
google maps.
Anna Dumitriu has sampled and cultured various locations for normal flora
bacteria and moulds, revealing this incredible, unseen and sublime world to
us through a series of beautifully enhanced digital micrographs. Ollie
Glass, Luciana Haill, Ian Helliwell and Juliet Kac have created a series of
sound works to accompany the images. Microbiologist John Paul has written
scientific text descriptions of the microbes.
The images create a kind of dialectic, bringing together the pure emotion of
the sound responses and the analytical texts.
By bringing in the use of GPS in the initial creation of the work, mapping
the locations where the microbiological swabs were taken, the work draws
together the microscopic and the macroscopic, drawing a thread between the
satellites orbiting the earth and the bacteria at our feet.
Socialight is currently in Beta test so if you have a any problems accessing
the work via your smart phone or would like further information please get
in touch.
For further information see www.bio-tracking.annadumitriu.co.uk
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