Scratching 'n' Sniffing London's air
Building on a previous collaboration with Natalie Jeremijenko, the folks at Proboscis (of Urban Tapestries fame) have just annnounced a rather unusual performance and public forum planned in London on April 10 named Snout. A cross between a carnival parade and a seminar, the event will include a demonstration by artists, producers, performers and computer programmers of ways to turn scavenged media into wearable technologies that can map the invisible gases in the air we (or Londoners) breathe. The event, a collaboration betweeen Proboscis, inIVA (the Institute of International Visual Arts), and researchers from Birkbeck College, begins at Cargo, on 83 Rivington St in East London. Given Birkbeck's involvement, we feel duty bound to recommend as background reading the script from Birkbeck literature professor Steven Connor's intoxicating audio essay "On the Air", here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/skc/onair/
More info here: http://www.iniva.org/season/winter/project_05