IT’S NOT ME

IT’S NOT ME uses saliva as an artistic medium to explore the concept of biological life. Saliva samples are taken from the artist and are placed in a petri dish. The resulting bacteria-human cell compound grown in the dish may have originated from the artist (“me“), but after being separated from and grown outside of the artist’s body, the living material in the petri dish evolved into a hybrid life form of human and non-human bacterial cells. To visualize this process, a programming language is used to map the growth of this new life, which is then converted into sound. The audience can listen to the sonic expression of this new life through headphones.