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Other Self
- Thu 2410:00-23:00
- Fri 2510:00-23:00
- Sat 2610:00-23:00
- Sun 2710:00-23:00
Nikos Skalkotas Foyer
Joana has been exploring the microbiome as subject matter and artistic medium since 2011. Other self portraits is a series of portraits created using the actual microbiome of a subject and their environment that invites reflection on the parts of our body that are not human, and the connection they form between all of us, across generations, frontiers and the figure/ground boundary. Other self portraits can be experienced as an online gallery of over 300 portraits (microbialart.tumblr.com), as an installation and as a participatory performance. This project was supported with commissions from the Eden Project and the Wellcome Trust (2015) and, from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (2016).
Joana Ricou (US)
Joana Ricou works in the intersection of art and science as an artist and educator. She collaborates with galleries, schools and museums internationally, having worked with the Andy Warhol Museum, Harvard University, the Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and Ponce Museo de Arte (Puerto Rico) among others. In 2012, Joana received a fellowship from the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and a Spark award from the Sprout Fund. She worked for 8+ years as creative director of Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education, developing innovative experiences for science education across media.