Stitching soft matter

In this practice, I have been examining an ecology of touch through the filter of post-humanism and Karen Barad’s motive concepts of intra-action, re-turn and diffraction. The practice, inevitably affected by COVID-19, has led to a virtual iteration of the process and the continued development of soft matter during the pandemic has allowed me to reflect on the ghostly traces of touch left in materials and sensed in the body. The resulting soft matter objects will be employed as choreographic scores to wear, think through and move within an inherited field of touch, affect and echoes of ghostly matter.