https://scottishgutproject.com Scottish Gut Project Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:53:17 +0000 https://scottishgutproject.com en https://scottishgutproject.com/Landing-Page Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:39:53 +0000 Scottish Gut Project https://scottishgutproject.com/Landing-Page <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cde1d865e2075d3515447bbeb91d6dcc6fc02fe2db838b0fa2182128936788b/WELLCOME_COLOURWAY.png" data-mid="228348225" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cde1d865e2075d3515447bbeb91d6dcc6fc02fe2db838b0fa2182128936788b/WELLCOME_COLOURWAY.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1217918b9f9c90a1c5c910a3eeb0aa7faaff492f94b1c15b475515364213c452/HORRIFIED_COLOURWAY.png" data-mid="228348222" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1217918b9f9c90a1c5c910a3eeb0aa7faaff492f94b1c15b475515364213c452/HORRIFIED_COLOURWAY.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/433b116e03c1936bf03a3aa5437478a00b357d90a52e8d69f726602951cb5072/GOURMAND_COLOURWAY.png" data-mid="228348223" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/433b116e03c1936bf03a3aa5437478a00b357d90a52e8d69f726602951cb5072/GOURMAND_COLOURWAY.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2b1a81a2e7340cb8f447240577a0c15952df3289d3d095687a1719b47fda1f8/HUMAN-NATURE_COLOURWAY.png" data-mid="228348224" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2b1a81a2e7340cb8f447240577a0c15952df3289d3d095687a1719b47fda1f8/HUMAN-NATURE_COLOURWAY.png" /> What is the Scottish Gut Project? The Scottish Gut Project is the first research project to examine the links between gut disorders and patient wellbeing from an arts and humanities perspective. It will bring together people with practical expertise in gut disorders (patients dealing with conditions such as Colitis); historians and cultural scholars; and researchers from medicine and nutrition Gut disorders are much more common in Scotland than previously thought, and these disorders are often mis-communicated or misunderstood. This is what the project will improve: we will investigate problems of communication and language in explaining digestive diseases and their impact on wellbeing. We will also investigate the cultural dimension of gut disorders in Scotland. Is there a specifically Scottish way of talking about these concerns and how can this help improve understanding? The objective is to use arts approaches such as theatre and film to discover new ways of communicating these conditions and raise awareness amongst the public. It will involve a series of workshops and lead to a publicly available project film and a collection of open-access articles. The Scottish Gut Poroject is convened by&nbsp;Dr Manon Mathias (University of Glasgow) and Dr Elsa Richardson (University of Strathclyde). Manon and Elsa are researchers who work on the cultural history of health and wellbeing. https://scottishgutproject.com/About-Us Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:39:51 +0000 Scottish Gut Project https://scottishgutproject.com/About-Us <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1dfbfde27847684271bfe9e3df575cc58b88bc083a75453816c3a07fc715353c/MANON_REFORMAT.png" data-mid="228349705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1dfbfde27847684271bfe9e3df575cc58b88bc083a75453816c3a07fc715353c/MANON_REFORMAT.png" /> Dr Manon Mathias Project Lead (Principal Investigator) Manon is a Reader in French at the University of Glasgow, and has published a book on the gut-mind connection in French culture. Gut, Brain, and Environment (2024) examines links between digestive health and the mind in nineteenth-century novels, gastronomic writing, philosophical texts, and health manuals. The book offers a new way of conceptualizing food not as social or cultural symbol but as an agent within a network of relationships between body and mind and between humans and environment.’ <img width="1080" height="1078" width_o="1080" height_o="1078" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74fc5f64acd8bee284ae7c34c136102eaa7923d5ae7d351235b46dd3cd3b0dec/KEVIN_REFORMAT.png" data-mid="228350018" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74fc5f64acd8bee284ae7c34c136102eaa7923d5ae7d351235b46dd3cd3b0dec/KEVIN_REFORMAT.png" /> Dr Kevin Leomo Project Administrator Kevin Leomo is a composer of experimental music and recently completed a practice research PhD at the University of Glasgow. Kevin teaches on a number of Music courses, as well as on the undergraduate Creative Arts &amp; Industries programme, and MSc in Creative Industries &amp; Cultural Policy at the University of Glasgow. He is also the Project Coordinator for The Dear Green Bothy, Collaborations &amp; Cultural Activities Assistant, and Sound Thought Committee Chair. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5902981f7fabebd33110c616cc538a08ea9b804575987ec510dd4975a81f718/LAURA_REFORMAT.png" data-mid="228350058" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5902981f7fabebd33110c616cc538a08ea9b804575987ec510dd4975a81f718/LAURA_REFORMAT.png" /> Dr Laura Freeman Contributor Dr Laura Freeman obtained her Medical Degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2006, completed her vocational training in General Practice in 2011, and spent several years working in Toronto, Canada.Dr Freeman has developed a strong interest for plant based nutrition and optimising health through lifestyle choices, becoming a diplomat of the International Board for Lifestyle Medicine and a certified CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Program) practitioner in 2019.Dr Laura Freeman is co-founder and medical director of Plant Based Health Online, the UK’s first CQC registered, online, plant-based lifestyle medicine healthcare service. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b45a3ec4205262f7f7b1402d5a5c9b75e1491a1da7fc9b36b0c2c063271851fb/RACHEL_REFORMAT.png" data-mid="228349972" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b45a3ec4205262f7f7b1402d5a5c9b75e1491a1da7fc9b36b0c2c063271851fb/RACHEL_REFORMAT.png" />Dr Rachel Clive Theatre Practitioner + Playwright Dr. Rachel Clive is a theatre practice-based researcher with extensive experience of teaching, arts facilitation&nbsp; and collaborative playwrighting. Her interest in the Scottish Gut Project is both personal and professional—she is particularly interested in the complex relationships between our guts and our nervous systems, and in how we experience, articulate and perform these relationships in our everyday lives.<img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f8ae3bcdb4f8edece16a2b13abb58b9440409d7bcb414df110a9c6c6a8d32d8/BF.png" data-mid="234366216" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f8ae3bcdb4f8edece16a2b13abb58b9440409d7bcb414df110a9c6c6a8d32d8/BF.png" />Bernadine FarrellProject ContributorBernardine Farrell is a public and academic anthropologist, writer, and teacher. She works with industry and educational institutions to explore the senses in everyday life, human and non-human. She founded Still Room Studio as a space between the garden and the kitchen to consider eating relationships. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d0e6b399b143b60c6d352d3bfb0569dc3dc6d83d3b25903b09c42ac1724e8ad/ELSA_REFORMAT.png" data-mid="228349701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d0e6b399b143b60c6d352d3bfb0569dc3dc6d83d3b25903b09c42ac1724e8ad/ELSA_REFORMAT.png" />Dr Elsa Richardson Project Lead (Co-Investigor) Elsa holds a Chancellor’s Fellowship in the History of Health and Wellbeing at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), University of Strathclyde. Elsa's current research examines histories of nutrition, vegetarianism, other alternative dietary cultures, mental stress and gastric disorders in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e0baa18684c32dd89fee5f10b30372426f78a2ed749a70a5109a1b83a061920/KIRSTY_REFORMAT.png" data-mid="228349973" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e0baa18684c32dd89fee5f10b30372426f78a2ed749a70a5109a1b83a061920/KIRSTY_REFORMAT.png" /> Kirsty HendryProject Artist Kirsty Hendry is an artist and facilitator living in Glasgow who develops projects exploring labour, work, and the body. Selected projects include: Navel Gazing for Collective Gallery’s Satellites 2020 Programme; Reader’s Digest commissioned by Market Gallery Glasgow as part of Reproductive Technologies (2019); Self-Service, publication and events programme in collaboration with Ilona Sagar at Centre for Contemporary Art and GoMA for Glasgow International 2018; So You See Me at Cooper Gallery, Dundee (2017); and Tenderpixel: Futures, ICA, London, UK (2015). Kirsty has undertaken residencies at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and Hospitalfield House, Arbroath. She is also the Learning &amp; Engagement Manager at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c3a9f57e2642aad4ca0f7f4eb3a4c336a1962532e9105c7e4cc37a254ab5b97/SFYN_REFORMAT.png" data-mid="228350019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c3a9f57e2642aad4ca0f7f4eb3a4c336a1962532e9105c7e4cc37a254ab5b97/SFYN_REFORMAT.png" /> Lyndsay Cochrane and Lucy Watkins Contributors Having been around for several years in various capacities, SFYN Scotland are currently in the process of re-building their network in preparation for COP26 and the surrounding events. Following Slow Food's ethos of good, clean and fair food for all, SFYN Scotland look to hone in on the values which speak to them most and then share this with not only Scotland but hopefully further afield. Current co-ordinators include Lyndsay (project coordinator with Scotland the Bread, supporting communities in learning to grow and bake with more nutritious and flavoursome grains) and Lucy (a freelance Graphic Designer producing print and digital collateral for organisations and companies doing good for people and planet). <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c11d76bf1e508c2a7226f1ebb9213a72e64aa25e19e4a58b16feaba32ea2828/stomach-ache.png" data-mid="233818513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c11d76bf1e508c2a7226f1ebb9213a72e64aa25e19e4a58b16feaba32ea2828/stomach-ache.png" />Stomach AcheProject Contributor 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. https://scottishgutproject.com/Digesting-Journeys Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:39:51 +0000 Scottish Gut Project https://scottishgutproject.com/Digesting-Journeys Welcome to Digesting Journeys—our online project space for Glasgow Science Festival’s Science on the Sofa strand as part of their 2025 programme! While taste and smell are often the primary senses we might think of when it comes to eating, Digesting Journeys also brings sight, touch, and sound into focus. Here we are sharing some materials that can be engaged with at your own time and pace to explore your physical, psychological, and linguistic relationships with your gutDigesting Journeys asks—what happens when we take the outside world in? <img width="2452" height="3508" width_o="2452" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb93f9a5c34d4009c91d6baee730d9d8e64afbbd4d4e1c26ccb838ebd5aa3eba/Green-Cream-Linocut-Modern-Rainforest-Travel-Zine_COVER.png" data-mid="233607966" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb93f9a5c34d4009c91d6baee730d9d8e64afbbd4d4e1c26ccb838ebd5aa3eba/Green-Cream-Linocut-Modern-Rainforest-Travel-Zine_COVER.png" /> Allow yourself to be taken on a sensory journey through Bee Farrell’s A Zine About TOUCH and How It Relates to Eating which will guide you through a series of prompts and hands-on experiences to explore the relationships between texture and foods. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56a1d6ffff4584f121a0a25efafdc7c3839c9162481dfc47437c921290177e4f/1.-SGP_12.09.24.png" data-mid="228348197" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56a1d6ffff4584f121a0a25efafdc7c3839c9162481dfc47437c921290177e4f/1.-SGP_12.09.24.png" /> We welcome you to watch Human Nature a short artist moving image work by Kirsty Hendry which ruminates on the shared tongue of eating and knowing, zooming in on the gut as site of interaction between human and more-than-human worlds. If you’re still hungry for more, we’ve gathered together the following reading materials; Sarah Elton Eating for Two Trillion Lisa Heldke It’s Chomping All the Way Down... Maya Hay Symbiosis and the Steward.. Maya Hay Against healthist fermentation... Hi’ilei Julia Hobart + Stephanie Maroney On Racial Constitutions... Heather Paxton Post-Pasteurian Cultures... Kateřina Kolářová, Tereza Stöckelová + Lukáš Senft Disability and the (dysbiotic) gut... Megan Tracy&nbsp; Missing Microbes... Pujau Vangay et al U.S Immigration Westernizes the... Nitin K. Ahuja + Amisha Ahuja Gastroenvironmental distress... Brillat-Savarin The Physiology of Taste James Kennaway + Jonathan Andrews The Grand Organ of Sympathy... Jean Macé The History of a Mouthful of Bread Manon MathiasGut, Brain + Environment... Manon Mathias Autointoxication + historical precursors... I Miller The gut-brain axis... Alison Moore + Manon Mathias Contextualising the microbiota... Tobias Rees, Thomas Bosch + Angela E. Douglas How the microbiome... Elsa Richardson Rumbles... Elsa Richardson Cranks, Clerks + Suffragettes... Sydney Whiting Memoirs of a stomach... We hope you have enjoyed Digesting Journeys! We would be very grateful if you could spend 5 minutes sharing your thoughts with us here https://scottishgutproject.com/A-Digest Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:39:52 +0000 Scottish Gut Project https://scottishgutproject.com/A-Digest <img width="3200" height="2133" width_o="3200" height_o="2133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f55a308729e825797912da5fb4042339ef36b1d76028e4f08c9084d1788bf69/ScGutProj24---eoincarey_0053.jpg" data-mid="228348199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f55a308729e825797912da5fb4042339ef36b1d76028e4f08c9084d1788bf69/ScGutProj24---eoincarey_0053.jpg" /> <img width="3200" height="2133" width_o="3200" height_o="2133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e15328c52ead86ae95fb4ec96a538870e34b2624c50a703773c0e2fe2bc6f67f/ScGutProj24---eoincarey_0043.jpg" data-mid="228348198" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e15328c52ead86ae95fb4ec96a538870e34b2624c50a703773c0e2fe2bc6f67f/ScGutProj24---eoincarey_0043.jpg" /> 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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&amp;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 | Glasgow12th September 2024 https://scottishgutproject.com/Modernity-The-Gut-Conference-1 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:53:17 +0000 Scottish Gut Project https://scottishgutproject.com/Modernity-The-Gut-Conference-1 <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3bb529c13ef427d76b42476a7ec4aaa1e4bb14317155dd30a88aed7a7f579c3/IMG_0661.jpeg" data-mid="228350822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3bb529c13ef427d76b42476a7ec4aaa1e4bb14317155dd30a88aed7a7f579c3/IMG_0661.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7306f6bb377dca2d7f7966ac0c83a7af7a75f32ea15fab8e920713c5dbaac8ed/IMG_0575.jpeg" data-mid="228350821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7306f6bb377dca2d7f7966ac0c83a7af7a75f32ea15fab8e920713c5dbaac8ed/IMG_0575.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/832abc05ec4fe56084d7b2ebdc940eb82f6ec58cf8b4fc61c2010d1c54bc3d66/IMG_0538.jpeg" data-mid="228350820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/832abc05ec4fe56084d7b2ebdc940eb82f6ec58cf8b4fc61c2010d1c54bc3d66/IMG_0538.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86234c2b67113738d467577acbf96d23ae58a8349c266d2c849393ceb9c5fda4/IMG_0569.jpeg" data-mid="228350844" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86234c2b67113738d467577acbf96d23ae58a8349c266d2c849393ceb9c5fda4/IMG_0569.jpeg" /> Concerns about gastric disorders have been around for centuries, but anxiety surrounding the gut intensified with the development of modernity. The rise of sedentary living and industrialised food processes deepened the chasm between what was perceived as a healthy gut and the status of people’s digestive systems. Often viewed as out of time with the frantic pace of urban working life, the gut has been characterised as a victim of modernity and yet the processes associated with it —consumption, absorption, disassembly, and waste— were closely allied to the project of modernism. Today’s scientists also note that the lifestyle changes caused by the agricultural and industrial revolutions have profoundly altered the ecological relationships and disease patterns of populations, notably the diversity of our gut bacteria. Keynote: Professor Jean Walton We are delighted to welcome Professor Jean Walton for the symposium’s keynote presentation. Walton has enjoyed a life-long career in the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) English Department, where she has developed courses on Modernism, Film, and Gender Studies, often with an emphasis on psychoanalysis, queer theory, or social activism. Walton was the recipient of a Fulbright Lectureship to Moscow in 2001; received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (ACLS) in 1997-98; and a URI Council for Research Grant to attend the Dartmouth School of Criticism and Theory, Summer 1995. Before joining the faculty at URI, she taught at Fordham University in the Bronx (1988-93). Her books include Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference (in which she probes the unacknowledged whiteness at the intersections of psychoanalysis, feminism, and queer theory), Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration (in which she and co-authors Mary Cappello and James Morrison reflect on their queer intellectual coming-of-age while grad students at SUNY/Buffalo in the eighties), and Mudflat Dreaming (a literary non-fiction book about 1970s squatters on the shorefront of her hometown of Vancouver). This last book shares some of her decades-long interest in matters of waste, human and urban metabolism, and bodily or performative forms of social and political dissidence. She will be talking today about some of these concerns as explored in her latest book, Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt. Kelly Adamson, Adam Bencard,&nbsp; Laura González, Maya Hey, Vanessa Höving, Sylvain Lallier, Megan MacGregor, Louise Morgan, Deren Pulley, Derek Ryan, Bee Sachsse, Sofia Sandalli,&nbsp; Genevieve Smart, Marita Vyrgioti, Christina Walter, Matthew Wolf-Meyer Naomi Wynter-VincentPeter Adkins, Adam Bencard, Rhodri Hayward, Ian Miller, Hannah Proctor MODERNITY + THE GUT Kelvinhall | University of Glasgow27th - 28th April 2023 <img width="1024" height="576" width_o="1024" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29398616a9760920e8b804be4f5312da524167f89d1c7b4334ad4e208737222c/LB_Warm-Decembers_2.png" data-mid="228357557" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29398616a9760920e8b804be4f5312da524167f89d1c7b4334ad4e208737222c/LB_Warm-Decembers_2.png" /> <img width="1024" height="576" width_o="1024" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ad26db8f0acc363ca204e498e2eb34075f30e43ed00cf6e1e6bf4092ada52b3/LB_Warm-Decembers-1.png" data-mid="228357555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ad26db8f0acc363ca204e498e2eb34075f30e43ed00cf6e1e6bf4092ada52b3/LB_Warm-Decembers-1.png" /> <img width="1472" height="1100" width_o="1472" height_o="1100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/235879335c220522705209d12b6c56891bbf4fd158864c25769d03660c8eadfb/MP_Bodies---Places-are-Contagious_2.png" data-mid="228357561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/235879335c220522705209d12b6c56891bbf4fd158864c25769d03660c8eadfb/MP_Bodies---Places-are-Contagious_2.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1432" width_o="1920" height_o="1432" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1528718973d656a5855a81ac27459a1566df43aa8de068547943f939a111ae66/Wormcharmer5.png" data-mid="228357570" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1528718973d656a5855a81ac27459a1566df43aa8de068547943f939a111ae66/Wormcharmer5.png" /> <img width="1958" height="1086" width_o="1958" height_o="1086" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/991554613c81c8543e5b4ea26e64350d05337a02927e0e2bd948779864e8cca0/JS_2.png" data-mid="228357572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/991554613c81c8543e5b4ea26e64350d05337a02927e0e2bd948779864e8cca0/JS_2.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/071c386ce37310474bf7c6db9fedafe7ee18af6fcd557c570ba544c792a5777d/NG-Navigation.png" data-mid="228358300" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/071c386ce37310474bf7c6db9fedafe7ee18af6fcd557c570ba544c792a5777d/NG-Navigation.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d46d12897a28eaa75e4fe25afcbd1793d1f18ced707b2c5ab96a624de88b431/Navel-Gazing-Thumbnail-Vimeo.png" data-mid="228358691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d46d12897a28eaa75e4fe25afcbd1793d1f18ced707b2c5ab96a624de88b431/Navel-Gazing-Thumbnail-Vimeo.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1444" width_o="1920" height_o="1444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd65dca856d7757ce08bf5e43c3dae9e48a678889f7ffea0a58b1f42f7c49704/RM_Wormcharmer_1.png" data-mid="228357565" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd65dca856d7757ce08bf5e43c3dae9e48a678889f7ffea0a58b1f42f7c49704/RM_Wormcharmer_1.png" /> <img width="1116" height="834" width_o="1116" height_o="834" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed740aed0349d81b2f268e364acfe56644491d85a6bdb7cbababd99375b525cf/RM_Wormcharmer_2.png" data-mid="228357568" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed740aed0349d81b2f268e364acfe56644491d85a6bdb7cbababd99375b525cf/RM_Wormcharmer_2.png" /> <img width="1966" height="906" width_o="1966" height_o="906" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5957182c96b45a3d64075f8bc74ee74d998a2ebb3057d833b1a0564793ca172f/MP_Bodies---Places-are-Contagious_3.png" data-mid="228357563" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5957182c96b45a3d64075f8bc74ee74d998a2ebb3057d833b1a0564793ca172f/MP_Bodies---Places-are-Contagious_3.png" /> <img width="1968" height="1064" width_o="1968" height_o="1064" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0706db7483bc48606e822fab2a9e747c2082e5a1c6c70291295b30a940166fc1/MP_Bodies---Places-are-Contagious_1.png" data-mid="228357559" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0706db7483bc48606e822fab2a9e747c2082e5a1c6c70291295b30a940166fc1/MP_Bodies---Places-are-Contagious_1.png" /> <img width="1024" height="576" width_o="1024" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e212f611a4992dfded6d0dad1c36713ca20ae06d3c5c283f16853a26684854d/LB_Warm-Decembers_3.gif" data-mid="228357558" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e212f611a4992dfded6d0dad1c36713ca20ae06d3c5c283f16853a26684854d/LB_Warm-Decembers_3.gif" /> Living Together was presented as public closing event of the Modernity and the Gut Conference. The relationship between our human and non-human selves is often described as symbiotic. Yet ‘symbiosis’—a biological term used to describe a connection between two organisms—is often used as a synonym for balance, harmony, and equilibrium, glossing over the complexity of both the term itself and the complexity of our kinship with the non-human world. No relationship is ever so straightforward; as poet Daisy Lafarge writes ‘I had to keep reminding myself that parasitism was a type of symbiotic relationship and not its opposite’.Featuring works by Maria Fernandez Pello, Lucy Beech, Roz Mortimer, Jenna Sutela, and Kirsty Hendry, Living Together explores digesting, ingesting, and metabolising as practices of self-making and unmaking.The works in Living Together exploit scale to reveal the complex drama that unfold beyond the limits of human perception; internal life and interior spaces might also contain outer-spaces and other worlds. Living Together dwells on the idea that our understanding of what is internal/external, inside/outside, self/other is maybe a question of perspective?You can find the full programme and screening notes here LIVING TOGETHER Kelvinhall | University of Glasgow28th April 2023