Diana Burgoyne and Raewyn Turner

Welcome! Following on from our 1st collaborative project ReSense which we developed at BNMI - Banff Centre for the Arts, we've created a new work called FLAP, detailing our process and investigations of both works here.

Both works were installed at MiC Toi Rerehiko 3 September - 8 October 2010, and the exhibition was called ReSense.

Our conversation revolved around whether we could create a work using both the synthetic smells of nature and authentic human smell, and whether the smells from our respective countries would differ.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

FLAP


1.  FLAP
Raewyn wore socks and had the smell extracted by and analysed by Robert Winz at Plant and Food Research laboratory, using HS-SPME-GC-MS, which means 'headspace (HS)/solid phase microextraction (SPME)/gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)' , a method which was developed to determine the profiles of volatile substances.



The chromatograms that Robert produced were not what were to be expected based on the literature - according to the machines my feet smelt like sweet lovely fruit! also, although the socks were boiled several times and hung out to dry on the line, the  background ‘clean sock’ compounds hadn't been reduced to a minimum.



We decided to press on with collecting our own plus kind friends' and willing volunteer's foot smells.
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