YOUR DIRT, MY TREASURE
YOUR DISGUST, MY JOY

project type - Site-Specific Installation
year - 2022

This uncanny installation was devised by producing a set of critical applications, tools and situations for queer spatial agency by appropriating space through the dispersion of human saliva. These sculptural gestures — dispersed bodily fluid in mist and the embedded screen displaying magnifying saliva — can be seen as exercises in scale that exemplify the tension between bodily fluids in relation to manufactured devices, aerial circulation in space, and defamiliarization through magnification. By using consumerism’s language combined with scientific, or rather pseudo-scientific visualisations, a tactical intervention was made, relating to a broader modern scientific and medical discourse on hygiene, which historically engendered spatial segregation, and continues to do so. An intimate, yet thought-provoking spatial proposition where desire, ambivalence and transgression could be seen as gestures associated to “queer-scapes” and appropriation through forms of apparent pollution.