under your skin
Body art studio, London, UK.
- Methodology -
[the practical project]
Field Observation
Body art Studio, preforming tattoos, piercing and microchip implants installations - South London
owned by S & R
Online Ethnography
Interviews
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"I": Biohacker and a security company founder. Developing the microchips market, network and community. Supplying microchips to tattoo and piercing places
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"H": Biohacker and co-producer of a Biohacking podcast in London.
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"S" & "R" - husband and wife owners of a tattoo and piercing Studio in South London, part of the dangerousthings network.
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"J" a Biohacker - biological side. Part of the dangerousthings network.
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"C": Biohacker, London.
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"IT": Biohacker, London.
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"A": American Biohacker, online correspondence.
why an online shop?
I had a conversation quite early on is the process of researching about this Biohacking phenomena with "S", the body art studio owner I have done my physical ethnography in. He, as a tattoo artist much preferred to discuss his tattoos and designs seemed to be rather annoyed with my relentless interest in the microchips implants and his Biohacker costumers than his body art. Which led him at a certain point to say: "it's just part of the catalogue".
That why of referring to this practice stroke me rather profoundly and it carried on in the why this project took shape in my mind and in the why it resonates throughout my findings.