Abstract
This article presents extracts from a short film - a speculative vital materialist tale that reaches beyond a human perception of time, to document a conversation between a past-present-future sentient community-being of cells and their kin, present day humans who are always already symbiotically and parasitically involved in their generation. The conversation took place during a participatory performance workshop held at ASCUS Lab in Edinburgh, 2017, where participants genetically modified E. coli bacteria to hold a thought (DNA with no known biological meaning, only cultural meaning) within their bodies, and were then invited to enter into a speculative dialogue with their distant cellular kin.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 56-59 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Public |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 59 |
Early online date | 1 Jun 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2019 |