FRAGRANT / FUTURES
By Becky Lyon (GB)
Biologically-enhanced florals are evolved to adapt to the toxically-tinged atmosphere. Industrious and hungry bacteria catalyse plastic from the soil to return it to its earthly state. Sulphuric lava pools are a happy home to hardy species of extremophile organisms. This is truly life at the edges.
Venture into the future, where such life systems exists. Through your nose, you’ll sample scented artefacts from an imagined excavation. And what will you detect? What kind of environment is it from? Is Earth revived and refreshed? Or is it contending with the after-effects of climate change? Is this a planet you would be happy to inhabit?
Come smell for yourself, and share your thoughts on what you think the future will smell like...
BIO
Becky is an artist and researcher from London navigating our potential futures through artefacts, sensory transmissions and moving images. She describes her practice as ‘elastic fictions’ — malleable propositions opening up discussion, debate and interaction around critical issues and poetic tensions surrounding a post-natural planet. She has exhibited at the TATE Modern Studio Reflex and TEDx Royal Society. She’s had artwork featured in Imperial College London’s iSciencemagazine and is one of the artists-in-residence at The Cube, London. She is co-programme lead for London LASER and The Future Of_ conference. Becky is studying an MA in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins, London.