Joe Davis' ideas involve E.coli, electron guns, DNA and beat-up pieces of satellite recovered from space.

By the sound of that toolkit, you might think we're about to talk with a biologist or maybe an astrophysicist, and yet

JD: I have no classical credentials in science whatsoever. I mean I took biology in Jr. college. I'm not a scientist, I'm an artist, very clearly, although there's a lot of argument about that too.

And when Joe Davis starts telling you about his work, it's easy to see how he causes argument - like, with one of his more ambitious projects, Poetica Vaginal...

JD: It was, project to transmit vaginal contractions into space to communicate with aliens. Wasn't really about transmitting vaginal contractions into space to communicate with aliens, was about transmitting vaginal contractions into space to communicate with ourselves...

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The subject of Joe Davis' art is the female anatomy. The words "vaginal contractions" and "genitalia" are used. A second piece of Joe Davis' art references quite directly, human waste, although the word "shit" is NOT used.