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Zone of Inhibition suggests a reconsideration of our relationship to microbial bodies, particularly in the context of laboratory practices. It is a short film developed as a result of performative genetic modification workshops created by artist Louise Mackenzie in collaboration with Dr Ana Topf and Dr Stephanie Carr of the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle, UK and ASCUS Art and Science, Edinburgh, UK in 2017. In the workshops, Mackenzie brought her personal engagement with micro-organisms in a laboratory to a public forum, sharing a vital materialist approach that suggests new perspectives on our relationship to the microbial other through imaginative and anthropomorphic interaction. The title of the film refers to the space (generally on a petri dish) in which microbial growth is inhibited as a result of antibiotics. The space is a threshold in which microbes encounter humanity’s resistance to them as other. For this work, Mackenzie develops a fictional, human-scale zone of inhibition, a space of encounter that is both intensely personal yet also restrictive. In this space of encounter, Mackenzie facilitates a dialogue - guided by an AI that translates speech in patterns of bacterial mutation - between the speculative kin of laboratory microbial bodies and the scientists, designers and artists who have genetically modified them.

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