“SHIT!: (Re)narrating the Holobiont Through Co-creative Art and Design Practices” presented by Kelley, Parker, Pynor, Ihlein, Williams, et al. …
Session Title:
Ecological Imaginaries (panels)
Presentation Title:
SHIT!: (Re)narrating the Holobiont Through Co-creative Art and Design Practices
Presentation Subtheme:
Speculative practices
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Abstract:
This panel explores several creative projects that demonstrate how art and design can make multi-species metabolic landscapes of consumption, digestion and excretion sense-able to humans. We examine embodied and sensual methods that connect matter and situated material and bodily practices across time and space. We discuss human manure composting, heavy metal refining from human faeces, giant holobiont networks, mycoremediating textiles, and collaborative, and multi-species and multi-sensory participatory workshops, positioning bodies as thresholds in metabolic relations where acts of eating are webs that weave community and social relations through intimate and taboo digestive processes.
