slimetime slugtopia

Slime Time employs uv-reactive slime simultaneously as a tactile medium to combat anxiety and as a visual representation of the leopard slug’s male/female dichotomy-challenging genitalia as a platform to discuss mental health, queerness and sex and gender fluidity.

  

Since watching Attenborough’s ‘Life in the Undergrowth’ in 2004, depicting the Leopard Slug mating ritual, I revisited it through a queer lens in 2014, realising the slugs embodied my pansexuality and genderfluidity I did not then have the language for.

 

I began experimenting with fabricating my own luminescent, tactile material, using UV light to transform the visual aspect of slime to mimic the slugs’ glowing genitalia.

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Primarily working with video, the slime oozed out of the screen and developed through to performance.

 

Working in response to animal behaviour and using a tactile, therapeutic medium, I found my anxiety subsided. I began to think positively about my body, myself and began creating interactive spaces where this could happen for others.