A Scatology of Sewage with Dr. Gayle Chong Kwan & Dr. Randa Kachef

Alongside our exhibition Vital Signs: another world is possible join our free Lunchtime Talk with artist Dr Gayle Chong Kwan and Dr Randa Kachef, Research Affiliate in the Department of Geography, King's College London. They will share their creative and science-based approaches to issues of environmental degradation and waste management.

Dr Gayle Chong Kwan's work features in the exhibition and you can explore her work, I am the Thames and the Thames is Me on Floor 1 of the gallery. The work calls attention to the management of the waste that we ourselves create, and its impact on the health of the river that sustains us and the city in which we live.

Using Chong Kwan's installation as a starting point, their short talk will explore histories of waste and it’s management and explore how knowledge is produced in this area. Finding avenues to reconnect with artistic and indigenous perspectives, they will rethink systems from their roots.

They will talk for 20 minutes, and then invite questions from the audience.

Science Gallery London’s lunchtime talk programme invites researchers from King’s College London to explore big ideas in a relaxed setting, with an emphasis on responding to audience questions.