July 2016 – November 2016

MOUTHY: INTO THE ORIFICE

From human spit crystals and the science of snogging to hacked prosthetics that allow your facial movements to control digital games, MOUTHY was a season packed full of surprising experiences that invited you to get involved and connect with your mouth in new ways…

From July to November 2016, MOUTHY invited you to delve into the orifice and explore the hidden world within – from the dark and gross to the miraculous – and asked to you consider your own relationship with an amazing portal of self-expression.

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Exhibits

Featured
Talking Statues
Talking Statues

If statues could talk, what stories would they tell?

Candyclaw
Candyclaw

Joanna Brinton worked with dental student Anisha Gupta…

Hidden Architectures
Hidden Architectures

A collaboration between UK based choreographer Saffy Setohy and sound artist Jan Hendrickse.

The Fellatio Modification Project
The Fellatio Modification Project

Techniques of dentistry and tissue engineering…

Rumination on Mastication
Rumination on Mastication

Rumination on Mastication’ invited dinner guests to…

Teeth Show
Teeth Show

Teeth Show invites you on a poetic, medical, bitter-sweet and personal journey through surreal stories, original sound and film.

Kiss Culture
Kiss Culture

The gallery becoming host to a growing grid of kissed blood agar plates.

Microcosms
Microcosms

Artist Effie Paleologou has turned London’s streets and pavements into her laboratory…

Gobsmacked
Gobsmacked

Gobsmacked was a series of free poetry writing and performance workshops…

Mouth CTRLer
Mouth CTRLer

The mouth has been a vital tool for completing ordinary tasks since the dawn of man…

Science of Snogging
Science of Snogging

Why do we kiss?

Saliva Moon
Saliva Moon

Saliva Moon was initiated when Briony Clarke was working with David McCarthy in Electron Microscopy at UCL…

Hawk this way
Hawk this way

Though saliva is essential to our oral wellbeing, most of us pay little attention to this most mundane of human secretions…

Spit Crystal
Spit Crystal

A healthy individual produces between 0.75 and 1.5 litres of saliva a day…

Terminal Sulcus
Terminal Sulcus

As a child Beatrice Haines’ grandparents would regularly prepare sandwiches…

Microbe Mouth
Microbe Mouth

Delving deep into bacterial world of the mouth…

Mouth Noises
Mouth Noises

Whilst working with opera sopranos, Steve Cross discovered…

A Cleft in Time
A Cleft in Time

Cleft lip and/or palate is common…

The Afterbite
The Afterbite

What do different animals teeth look like?

Highlights

Curators

Gina Czarnecki  ,Artist

Saoirse O’Toole, Researcher and Clinical Teacher, Dental Institute, King’s College London

Abigail Tucker, Professor of Development and Evolution, King’s College London

Daniel Glaser,Former Director, Science Gallery London