On Sound & Smell
Video documentation, dur. 6:55 mins
2019
Pecha Kucha, The Caird Hall, Dundee, 28 May 2019.
See a selection of slides below.
This is the mushroom cloud of nuclear bomb ‘Fat Boy’ detonated over Nagasaki, 9 Aug 1945. Credit: Charles Levy, U.S. National Archives.
Wrinkled peach (Rhodotus palmatus). Credit: atlasobscura.com.
Jelly ear, also known as wood ear, black fungus, or Judas’ ear (Auricularia auricula-judae).
Truffle hog and fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), postcard, 20c.
'The Disembowelment of Judas’, Giovanni Canavesio (1491); Judas’ ear fungus.
Sanitary disease of front-line French soldiers, Crimea, postcard, 20c.
‘Fragment from marble head’, 2BCE, Roman. Credit: The Met Museum, New York.
Horn of plenty (Limoges Cornucopia), porcelain box, early-20c.
Common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus). Credit: Mary Whistling Wind.