TOUCH EXPERIMENTS | Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan

A micro-residency exploring the sense and act of touch

What is touch in the context of a year of selective, high stakes touching? What shifts when we read the body in kin, or the touch-body, through the lens of matter and making?

TOUCH EXPERIMENTS is a micro-residency exploring the sense and act of touch. It is an experience that happens for, with, and in the body.

The TOUCH EXPERIMENTS micro-residency concludes with a workshop expanding how touch may become part of a/synchronous screen-mediated community.

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Spring microresidency

Cartographic Competitions

resource series

Concept Mapping

Touch Experiments' documentation, process mapping, concept mapping. This documentation is hosted on FIGMA and includes an overview of our process, links to videos, links to notes, links to readings and an in-progress bibliography.

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Open Glosssary

As part of our 'Touch Experiments' research, we are sharing an in-progress 'Open Touch Glossary'. We welcome input and additions!

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Workshop Documentation - Exercises

10 min video montage of touch experiments led by Selwa Sweidan and Nina Sarnelle, Spring 2021. Also featuring Anna Ialeggio, Miller Klitzner & Renee Carmichael.

Workshop Documentation - Touch Poem

A verbal touch exercise with 5 participants. Led by Nina Sarnelle & Selwa Sweidan, and featuring Anna Ialeggio, Miller Klitzner & Renee Carmichael.

public presentation

Interview with an Intimacy Choreographer

April 11, 2021. Interview with Rebecca Johanssen