Where? Who? When? What? Crossing Wires
WHERE
Tuatara House
295 K’Rd, (opposite ArtSpace)
Newton, Auckland
WHO
Raewyn Turner and Dr Richard Newcomb
Scientist, Dr Richard Newcomb has research interests in olfaction in both humans and insects, and in ways of comparing these different biological systems to address how they have evolved. Raewyn Turner is a practicing artist exploring sensory perception through alternative expression, including extrasensory and subsensory plant-animal-human communication.
Raewyn Turner: r.turner@orcon.net.nz
Richard Newcomb: richard.newcomb@plantandfood.co.nz
WHEN
2-20 November 2009
Moday-Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday 10am-1pm
WHAT
The collaboration PLUME brings together the multidisciplinary artist Raewyn Turner and molecular biologist, Richard Newcomb to explore the power of olfaction. The initial focus is on the human plume and the multitude of chemical communications between all living beings. The collaborators will explore novel ways of developing the sense of smell, as a way of knowing as well as for opening up the possibilities of subjective knowledge. The potential to address human relationship and environmental concerns by exploring brand-new fields of emotional and relational expression will be also explored. This may be discovered within the research field of sensory information signals.
Newcomb and Turner decided to create Crossing Wires, a publicly visible working interactive space for the initial phase of their collaboration as the first draft for the next larger phase of their work, PLUME.
Crossing Wires theatre/laboratory is both a working laboratory and a performance installation. During the three week installation in November 2009, they will employ drawing, dialogue, technology, and extracted olfactory samples representative of the essence of humans currently walking on the earth.
It is envisaged that the final piece of installation and/or performance art will be synesthetic in nature, and multimedia in practicality, to produce an art experience that will challenge how we perceive and cooperate with our environment and each other.
Back and front of the flyer for Crossing Wires
