“I remember growing up, when my parents would go to church, my brother and I would ransack their cupboards, looking for things we would usually be prohibited from seeing and touching. One of these was a medical textbook, in which we would find images that were interesting or salacious, like an illustration of the male reproductive system with a cross-section view of the penis. When you look at these printed illustrations or photographs in a book, they appear seamless, but on closer inspection, you realise that they’re composed of small printed dots that hang on a grid. Later, I came to realise that the grid serves different, complex functions. It speaks of a modernist desire for delineation and control, but it was also the first acronym used to describe HIV/AIDS, which was initially called Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. I came to understand the grid as a loaded device, one that framed my understanding of queerness and selfhood in a significant way.” 
– Ernst van der Wal

Participants in the Uncertain Entanglements colloquium convened by Kathryn Smith, Leora Farber and Christo Doherty reflect on the role of art and science interactions in their respective practices at Three Bones Residency, Cape Town.