Do you care for the communities in your gut? Are you concerned about the mould in your bathroom or the invisible threat on your hands? What about the 0.01% of germs that survive your bathroom cleaning product? If you’ve thought about any of these things and use the bus, then carry on reading…
Communities of microbes exist around us and in us, and as well as populating surfaces, they travel in the air alongside gases, dust and pollen. In spaces of work, leisure and travel, air is the medium through which our bodies interact with others.
The Micro-passenger Community Airspace project explores human relationships with (almost) invisible nonhumans like microbes, and asks how we feel about and represent them. It brings researchers from microbiology, geography, landscape architecture and art into dialogue with Southampton bus users.
The Micro-passenger Community project team is running a series of free workshops led by artist Paul Hurley, to imagine who and what a Micro-passenger Community Airspace might be. With citizens from Southampton the project will co-produce an interactive artwork for wider publics to encounter at events and online.
The Micro-passenger Community Airspace workshops will be running in Southampton between 5-15 July. The project team is looking for people who use (or who used to use) the bus to take part. If this sounds like you, the team would love for you to join them.
Please sign up via this registration form.
For more information contact Paul Hurley on [email protected] or visit the project website.
