Submit a proposal for our new season: MOUTHY

How many teeth do you actually need to survive? Does flossing extend your life? What kind of bacteria lives in your mouth? Why would you snog someone but not share their toothbrush? How do your teeth affect your job prospects?

During MOUTHY, our new season at Science Gallery at King’s College London, we will dive into the oral orifice with artists and scientists to explore the visceral space of the mouth, and everything inside it. The MOUTHY season will include events, activities and installations held from July to November 2016 in and around Guy’s Campus at King’s College London, with other campus venues to be confirmed.

We put our mouths through endless daily rituals – they are prodded, poked, and re-aligned, brushed, scraped and refined. But this remarkable portal to our gut is also the gateway to self-expression and communication. Our mouths are powerful tools that can inspire everything from love and ecstasy to fear and loathing. From fillings and tooth tattoos to split tongues and pierced lips, mouths provide visual cues about who we are and where we have come from. 

We’re especially looking for participatory projects that will engage our core 15-25 year-old audience and are hoping to see proposals for a range of innovative projects that explore the following themes and topics:

  • The salivating mouth – the essential role of spit.

  • Healthy/unhealthy mouths – exploring bacteria and its impact on our mouths.

  • Sensational mouths – from pain to pleasure, our mouths are sensational spaces.

  • Changing mouths – how mouths have evolved and how the architecture of the mouth affects communication.

  • The unique mouth – how our mouths and their contents make us physically, socially and culturally distinctive, providing a platform for self-expression.

  • Future mouths – scientists are now able to re-grow teeth for mice from stem cells. What will mouths of the future be like?

  • Animal mouths – Herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, invertebrate.

Deadline for submissions is 13 March 2016 at 17:00 GMT. 

FIND OUT MORE AND SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

 

February 16, 2016

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