Scottish Gut Project
A Digest was an evening of moving image, readings, discussion, and endless digestive puns, that launched a series of new works resulting from The Scottish Gut Project—an interdisciplinary research project exploring (and challenging) the politics underpinning the mind-body divide and identifying new strategies for understanding and communicating the role the gut plays both biologically and culturally in our lives.
A Digest brought together the launch of Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut by Elsa Richardson and Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine by Manon Mathias, alongside the premier of Human Nature.
The screening and readings, were followed by a Digestif (i.e. drinks reception) and a long table discussion with Q&A, where Elsa, Manon, and Kirsty were joined by researcher and curator Rachel Marsden of the Stomach Ache project.
Stomach Ache is a project led by Dr Vanessa Bartlett (University of Melbourne) and Dr Rachel Marsden (University of the Arts London) that explores ways of representing the brain-gut-microbiome axis in curatorial and artistic practice to highlight the gaps between cutting-edge science and everyday lived experience.
Documention courtesy of Eoin Carey
A Digest brought together the launch of Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut by Elsa Richardson and Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine by Manon Mathias, alongside the premier of Human Nature.
The screening and readings, were followed by a Digestif (i.e. drinks reception) and a long table discussion with Q&A, where Elsa, Manon, and Kirsty were joined by researcher and curator Rachel Marsden of the Stomach Ache project.
Stomach Ache is a project led by Dr Vanessa Bartlett (University of Melbourne) and Dr Rachel Marsden (University of the Arts London) that explores ways of representing the brain-gut-microbiome axis in curatorial and artistic practice to highlight the gaps between cutting-edge science and everyday lived experience.
Documention courtesy of Eoin Carey
A DIGEST
Centre for Contemporary Art | Glasgow
12th September 2024
Glasgow Science Festival ︎︎︎ Digesting Journeys
Event ︎︎︎ A Digest
Conference ︎︎︎ Modernity + The Gut
Writing ︎︎︎ Publications
Glasgow Science Festival︎︎︎Digesting Journeys
Event ︎︎︎ A Digest
Conference ︎︎︎ Modernity + The Gut
The Scottish Gut Project is supported by The Royal Society of Edinburgh
