You have until this Saturday to see the Recoil Performance at Saw Gallery.
Part of the Human Nature exhibition, the performance is free but may require a ticket.
While the smell may or may not deter you from checking it out.
This is a unique experience seeing the meal worms.
About the performance:
Performed by Hilde I. Sandvold, choreographed by Tina Tarpgaard and produced by Carlos Calvo.
In a transparent plastic dome, a human female and thousands of mealworms live side by side.
They inhabit a microcosmos of Styrofoam.
The mealworms possess the ability to digest and decompose the Styrofoam into organic matter thanks to a bacteria in their gut.
The crackling sound of the eating worms is amplified by the dome, creating a strangely meditative space where audiences are invited to explore, ask questions, touch, smell or simply contemplate. While they witness this process, audiences can listen to a text which explores a landscape where the boundaries of human, insect, past and future dissolve.
