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Listen to Your Gut

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  • Free
  • Discussion
  • Speech-to-text
  • British Sign Language
Photograph of a panel of 3 people sat on a stage in an auditorium, with a screen behind them. In the foreground is the backs of the heads of the audience.
Auditorium panel discussion, Susan Smart. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Join Elsa Richardson to explore, through discussion and an artist film, how the gut speaks and how we communicate with it. You will hear a range of perspectives on the art, science and history of digestion inspired by her new book ‘Rumbles, A Curious History of the Gut’.

For attendees in the building, the event will be followed by tea, coffee and book signing.

Dates

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Henry Wellcome Auditorium

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Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Henry Wellcome Auditorium. To get there, take the stairs or the lift down to level −1. The auditorium is fitted with a hearing loop.

Place not guaranteed

Booking a ticket for a free event does not guarantee you a place. You should aim to arrive 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to start to claim your place. If you do not arrive on time, your place may be given to someone on the waiting list.

Speech-to-text

This event will be live-transcribed, with text displayed on a large screen.

British Sign Language

This event will have British Sign Language interpretation.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call

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About your contributors

Elsa Richardson

Speaker

Elsa Richardson is an academic at the University of Strathclyde. She holds a Chancellor’s Fellowship in the History of Health and Wellbeing at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. In addition to lecturing in the history of medicine and her own research, she also curates arts and science events for public institutions, including Wellcome Collection. In 2018 she was named one of ten New Generation Thinkers by BBC Radio 3, BBC Arts, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Jenna Sutela

Artist

Jenna Sutela will be joining the event remotely. She is a Finnish artist based in Berlin. She and her studio work with biological and computational systems, including the human microbiome and artificial neural networks to create sculptures, images and music. Sutela’s work has been presented at museums and in art contexts internationally, including Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2024) and the Swiss Institute, New York (2023). She was a Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) in 2019–21.