As part of the Ultimo Science Festival this year the Powerhouse Museum will be hosting two nights of adults only Dark Science, or the science of dark things at least. With the help of experts and practitioners from around Sydney we are going to investigate the science of tattoos, skin suspension, skin cancer, piercing, fetish, fear, pain, pleasure, scarring, psychology, physiology, sociopathology, control, lieing…its a long list.
The first night will concentrate on matters of the flesh: skin and how it works, muscles and their control. While the second night will be all about the psyche: What’s on(in) your mind?
The fun part about each night is that the audience will get to experiment, with the topics, with each other and with themselves. How much do you know about the strength of your skin, about the way tattoos work, or what’s in the head of people who pursue seemingly painful practices. The topics are dangerous the talk is safe.
Natasha Mitchell from ABC radio national’s all in the mind program has agreed to come along and MC.
