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TRANSCORPOREAL — MICROPLASTICS in DRINKING WATER, TROY, NY





2024



Video and olfactory installation completed while in residence at EMPAC. A meditative space for the complexities and contradictions of the Anthropocene, highlighting a citizen science project to document micropalstics in drinking water and purity politics underlying acts of consumption.

Perfume and sensory installation representing various volatile organic chemical (VOC) phenomena releated to drought and rising average temperatures.

An experimental scent blending the smell of petrichor (dirt after rain), preserved oyster and reishii mushrooms, and fungal decay.
Filed under: Olfactory, Fungi, Sensory

An installation and speculative natural history  archive which involves human bodies in geologic processes, signaling the ways in which a landscape digests human materials and may mirror bodies’ intimacy with the geologic through metabolism.  


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