On Touching
Workshop
with Pia Grizzuti, October 2025
Chisenhale Dance Space
Workshop
with Pia Grizzuti, October 2025
Chisenhale Dance Space
“When two hands touch, there is a sensuality of the flesh, an exchange of warmth, a feeling of pressure, of presence, a proximity of otherness that brings the other nearly as close as oneself. Perhaps closer. And if the two hands belong to one person, might this not enliven an uncanny sense of the otherness of the self, a literal holding oneself at a distance in the sensation of contact, the greeting of the stranger within?”
Karen Barad
On Touching: The Inhuman That Therefore I Am
Karen Barad
On Touching: The Inhuman That Therefore I Am
An experiential session exploring touch and language, a practice of embodying text through sensorial exploration. It proposed touch as a site of encounter with the self, others, and text, asking how language can be experienced in its materiality through somatic practices. Through these practices, it asks: how does meaning shift when language is not only spoken, but embodied and heard in the absence of sight?
The session was facilitated together with Pia Grizzuti, who explores and researches intimacy, sexuality, and relationality through performance, experimental video, and ritual-driven practices. They are a member of Observatorio del Placer and have worked extensively in projects on ethical porn, kink, and sexuality.