Slime: That Hinterland Substance, This Material of the Moment

As an invited speaker in the Royal College of Art's lecture series The Urgency of the Arts, convened by the School of Art and Humanities, I delivered a performance lecture in which I explored my engagement with and research process through slime and slimey matters, weaving personal narrative and experience with philosophical readings and historical analysis.

In this exploration, I work through a set of ideas about slime being both of and not-of the moment and propose some answers to the question of what the object lesson of slime might be in and to our contemporary age. Through these workings, I position slime's prevalence in contemporary mass-pop culture as an urgent call towards other ways of political being and doing, both individually and collectively.

The attached video is the first fifteen minutes of the talk where I set the stage for my explorations and begin to unpick slime as it appears in my research.