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What’s the difference between an artist and a scientist? That’s the question we’ve been asking in earnest since mid 2018 with our friends the Dundee Print Collective. DPC have a great history of creating cool, innovative projects. Each one usually has some key constraint. This could be a colour palette, a theme, a paper type – really anything. The scientists who took part in the project were keen on the idea of being treated the same as more traditional artists. The DPC duo knew that they wanted to do something slightly different with this project. Could we find a way of doing both?

From disembodied conversation to full scale occupation, artist Emily Fong, scientist Alan Fairlamb and researchers from the Centre formed a series of bonds through dialogue and play. Engaging with the Wellcome Trust Building as body, the pair underwent a unique process of manipulating the environment to suit their needs. Not unlike parasites, they wished no harm, but desired to come to an accommodation with their host.

This is our first co-commission with NEoN Digital Arts Festival. We unleashed artists Jen Southern and Rod Dillon to create a travel blog with a difference. Parasiteseeing is the Leishmaniasis parasite’s very own journal. Running across Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and more, it follows the parasite across the world, across time and across the lab. Links to all of the channels can be found at the Parasiteseeing website(https://para-site-seeing.org/) . We scaled the work up into a large-scale exhibition in LifeSpace gallery too, before sending it on to Dundee Science Centre. We’re exploring its next onward flight now.