Open Studio with Tarsh Bates
Launch 15 August 15.00-17.00.
Open Studio sessions 16-21 August 10.00-15.00
Tarsh Bates has spent the summer in the UmArts Research Studio exploring the agencies of odorants within ecologies and how they are affected by environmental and climate changes.
Everyone is welcome to the launch of her project on Friday 15 August, where she will perform a live distillation of Umeå Summer scents. Or drop-in to the Open Studio sessions Saturday 16 to Thursday 21 August 10.00-15.00. You are welcome to contribute to the live distillations, so bring some biomatter that smells of an environment that has significance for you.
Tarsh Bates is UmArts Postdoc in Design and Molecular Biology. Their Scentsory Foraging research explores the agencies of odorants within ecologies and how they are affected by environmental and climate changes. Ephemeral and invisible, smell chemicals are exchanged at all scales, from the molecular to the atmospheric, flowing between microbes, fungi, plants, animals, soil, water and air. Odorants move through and between bodies and species, integral to life processes and multi-species place-making. Consumption is central to these olfactory re-orientations: matter is sensed, ingested, metabolised and emitted. However, olfactory orientations are increasingly redolent with the pungent stench of colonial and capitalist over-consumption, extraction and terra-firming. Tarsh is particularly interested in the agency of odorants in Arctic ecologies.