- Lick the palm of your hand
- Eat dirt
- Wear socks in an airplane toilet
- Carry a headless bird for 15 minutes. Bury it.
- Leave camembert cheese on a bench in the sun for 4 hours. Eat.
- Kiss your cat’s feet.
- Ask the person next to you to breathe out. Sniff their breath.
- Lick your mobile phone.
- Kiss a football.
- Pick your nose and eat it.
- Make a cocktail from your blood and drink it.
- Take a sauna.
- Lick the soles of your shoes.
- Rub your face in someone’s beard.
- eat 1kg of prunes. Wait three hours.
- Wear bare feet in a public shower.
- Block your nose, go into a toilet. Breathe through your mouth.
- Spit on a glass slide and view under a microscope.
- Don’t wash your armpits for 5 days
- Kiss your partner.
I am Tarsh Bates and I am a postdoctoral researcher in Design and Molecular Biology. My background is in biotechnology, biological art, microbiology and cultural studies. I explore human-microbe relationships through artistic research and practice and am currently focusing on olfactory ecologies.
Interested in hearing more about olfactory art and biodesign? Join me for a Pint of Science at Gröna Älgen on Tuesday 14 May at 18.00.
