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What are humans? I intuitively consider myself an individual with a specific personality. However, I also know that most of my cells are microbes (microbiota). I am others. This disturbing thought is at the base of this exploration of the humans and microbiotas (microorganisms found on/in human skin) personalities, including politicians’ microbiotas in a second step. All the data will be sonificated and applied to improve democratic choices in a bioartistic way.
Nathalie Dubois Calero is a BacterVirHuman, scientist (Ph.D. in biology, UPMC, France) and bioartist (BA, University Concordia, Montreal, MFA, University of Windsor, Canada). Her feminist/queer works explore human-microbe relationships through workshops, performances, ontological workshop games, and videos/sounds (Bandcamp as Bacterhuman) using fabric, tattoos made with pH indicator culture media, where color changes testify conflicts, overlapping multiplication or equilibrium between human skin (and its excretions), and and its non genetically human microbiota- creating images and sounds interacting with her performative quest of human identity. She collaborates on MaterVirus, an ontological workshop game about viral identity of Humans with Cecilia Vilca, on Waterbodies and How to change wine into water? a performative audiovisual quest for cultural embodiment of communication with rivers, with Ada Gogova, and she will present with Kristin Lucas “Stamping Genes: A Speculative Union of Flamingo, Urchin, and Rice” at the TTT event in September.
Academic Advisor: Adam Zaretsky
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Ionian Islands Region, Greece
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