Tarsh Bates completed a Master of Science (Biological Arts) in 2012. She has worked variously as a pizza delivery driver, a fruit and vegetable stacker, a toilet paper packer, a researcher in compost science and waste management, a honeybee ejaculator, an art gallery invigilator, a bookkeeper, a car detailer, and a life drawing model. Tarsh is currently a candidate for a PhD (Biological Arts) at SymbioticA UWA where her research is concerned with the aesthetics of interspecies relationships and the human as a multispecies ecology. She is particularly enamoured with Candida albicans.
Experience
2009–present
Lecturer & Tutor, University of Western Australia
2012–present
PhD candidate, University of Western Australia
2015–present
Tutor, Curtin University
Education
2012
The University of Western Australia, MSc (Biological Arts)
2000
Murdoch University, BSc (Hons)
Publications
2017
Queer Affordances: the human as trans*ecology, Angelaki
2015
Threats of Life: a review of post biopolitical art, Anthropology Now
2015
We have never been Homo sapiens: CandidaHomo naturecultures, Platform: Journal of Media and Communication
2015
Cutting together-apart the mould, Antennae
2014
Performance, bioscience, care: Exploring interspecies alterity, International Journal of Performance and Digital Media
2013
Necessary expendability: an exploration of nonhuman death in public, Animal Death