a durational live performance
by tarsh bates
curated by Megan Schlipalius

PICA
3 September - 30 October 2011
Tues - Sun 11am - 6pm

how do we change when we care for other bodies?

What does it mean to care for fruit flies, slime mold, daphnia, hydra, or soil nematodes in a gallery? Is it possible to develop a different relationship between Candida albicans (commonly known as thrush) and humans by caring for it? How do we care for creatures that are not cute, furry or even visible? Is it appropriate – or ethical – to contain organisms in glass terrariums and keep them for our own purposes, aesthetic, cultural, educational or scientific? These are just some of the questions under investigation…