Zone of Inhibition: Relating to the Single Cell through Speculative Performance Practice

TY - JOUR

T1 - Zone of Inhibition

T2 - Relating to the Single Cell through Speculative Performance Practice

AU - Mackenzie, Louise

PY - 2019/6

Y1 - 2019/6

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1386/public.30.59.56_1

DO - 10.1386/public.30.59.56_1

M3 - Article

SN - 0845-4450

VL - 30

SP - 56

EP - 59

JO - Public

JF - Public

IS - 59

ER -