With The History of Lubrication, artist Gabriel Pericàs proposes a modest cultural history of human saliva, building on its physical behavior to chart its many uses, functions and associations. Written as a transcript of an imaginary radio program, the text plays on the tropes of the episodic podcast genre, weaving together popular culture, art history, science, and critical theory to examine and confront our uneasy relationship with spit and spitting.