Sweat, odor and soap

Biotalk: Thursday 11 June.

For the upcoming Biotalk we invited three speakers to elaborate on their unusual approach to cosmetics. Pei-Ying Lin & Helena Shomar zoom in to the process of saponification and use dead organic matter to create soap (Living Ashes). Wander Eikelboom and Mark Meeuwenoord recreate the last living minutes of famous person by using scent (Famous Deaths) as an immersive experience. And Paulien Routs aims to reveal the state of your body's vitality by transforming sweat to colorful patterns.

Doors open at 20:00, talks start at 20:30. Get your tickets now and join the event. Students pay only €5,00!

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Exhibition display of Living Ashes - Living ashes is a creative project part of Making Life, a project by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration with Biofilia – Base for Biological Arts – Aalto University Finland and Bio:Fiction Vienna Austria within the SYNENERGENE EU Project. Helena Shomar

Biotalk:

Thursday June 11.
Doors open at 20:00, Talks start at 20:30
Mediamatic, Biotoop, Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam
*Ticket Biotalk: €8,50 (including a Mediamatic Membership)
Students pay only €5,00.

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Body diagram of sweat colors - By Paulien Routs Using sweat to learn about your body's vitality. Paulien Routs

With: Paulien Routs
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Saponification up close - From burned organic matter to soap with Living Ashes

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Famous Deaths installation - Designed by Communication and Multimedia Design (CMD) Breda at the AVANS University of Applied science, the Netherlands.