Writer Ludmila Oulitskaïa says that a forbidden book is granted suplementary reason to be read, taboo being a sort of quality label of an artifact. Could the same be said about substances that come out of the body? Not just the usual suspects, such as semen, but ones that a society agrees to deem repulsive: urine, blood, vomit, snot, excrement. The Un/savory Sub/stances colloquium proposes to look at the erotic potential of such bodily waste through the work of PhD and rMA students, as well as ecodeviant artist Arthur Guilleminot’s piss soap project.

Speakers

Nor Akelei, “Allow me to chew on some words even as their taste may turn us sick”

Xinyi Li, “A Touch(ing) of Traumatophilic Revisitation: Psychoanalyzing a Self” 

André Soliva, “Looking into the Eyes of God while Showered in Manure” 

Maz Jardon, “Blood, Cum, and White Makeup: An Autotheory on Opacity and Erotic Desire” 

Samuel Ludmila Feline Constantin, “three plastic tubes (1997-2010)"

Arthur Guilleminot, Piss Soap project