Peripheral Review

"Despite what much of the writing on the subject would suggest, the value of thinking about or looking at slime—as art material, as life force, as fetish, as soother, as body, as indulgence, or as threat to the status quo—is not that it shows us how we can work past the limits of our sensitive human bodies, but rather, that it reminds us we have the potential to transform into something that need not suffer for basic human rights. Slime, like all of us, relaxes into new forms, adapts, slips from fingers, and continues on with what it has picked up along the way." - @laurenprouskyWriter, artist, and curator Lauren Prousky shares a DIY recipe on slime and mulls over some sensory experiences in this eclectic field guide. Observing elements of it in the works of Tyler Matheson, Pinar Marul, and Jacqueline Beaumont, she invites us to sink into themes such as bodily autonomy, metamorphosis, oppressive binaries, unregulated expansions, and the #oddlysatisfying nature of nature.