Para-site-seeing: Departure Lounge
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 280603031
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Dundee
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- May
- Year of first exhibition
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Para-site-seeing, an Art/Science collaboration researching the mobilities of the Leishmania parasite, was produced by Southern and Dr Rod Dillon from the School of Biomedicine and Life Sciences, Lancaster University. Para-site-seeing was commissioned through peer-reviewed competitive submission for an online artwork for NEoN Festival, 2018, with the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, funded by Wellcome Trust.
Para-site-seeing was conceived to research mobility from the perspectives of non-human life; in this case a single celled organism called Leishmania, the cause of a medically important set of diseases named leishmaniasis. Employing novel and imaginative methods that worked across disciplines with scientists, writers, artists, students and imaging experts, the research imagined the world from the perspective of a microscopic parasite, investigating its mobilities on scales from the microscopic to the global, and temporalities from seconds to millennia. The initial commission used social media accounts on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and blog entries to release the storylines, which were then fed to the website pages to become part of the larger project. There have been almost 4,000 page views, from Auckland to Seattle, since November 2018.
A second exhibition was commissioned with Wellcome Trust funding of £31,500. The research developed into an installation ‘Para-site-seeing: Departure Lounge’ at LifeSpace art-science gallery, with over 500 visitors. A tour was arranged with additional funding of £5,750, to Dundee Science Centre, (installed November 2019), and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) Rio, Brazil (postponed due to Covid-19). Wellcome Trust funded a printed catalogue, including 26 pages of images, a foreword by Professor Sir Mike Ferguson Regius Professor of Life Sciences, Dundee University, and essays by Prof Sarah Cook, internationally leading scholar of the curation of new media arts and art/science, and contributions from Donna Holford-Lovell, Ali Floyd, Holly Yeoman, Rod Dillon, and Jen Southern.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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