Event 1

Event 1 

Going to this exhibit I did not know what to expect considering I'm not usually around south campus. I went with a fellow classmate to the gallery who is also new to south campus and witnessed something I have never thought to be considered technology, science, and art. 

Kathy High who is a patient of Crohn's disease specializes in the study of autoimmune disorders where she researches waste matters. The basics of this idea are the study of one's waste matters given to that who has the disease and somehow that person would take in the nutrients and use that to cure their disease.

My first reaction to this idea was extremely confused on how this process would work. But, after reading the description it became an interesting and unique sounding topic. What appealed to me was that Kathy is the one who is suffering from the disease and she is the one who explores the immune system finding out a possible cure to her own health issues.

Kathy High wrote a letter to a famous songwriter/singer and collector of art David Bowie, basically asking him for his feces because she thought that his waste would be a match for her body. In hope, High’s body will accept the nutrients from his waste and heal her disease. In return, she offered Bowie photos of herself re-enacting major parts of his career.

The incorporation of art and science becomes the most noticeable because Kathy High is offering art to Bowie who would hopefully return the favor in a scientific way though his waste which then cures her disease or Crohn’s.