Touch Talk with Rosalind Holgate-Smith | THE PLEASURE PATCHWORK

Join us at Dorich House Museum for an event relating to the Pleasure Patchwork, a crochet sculptural installation made of worm like, phallic and invaginated forms which will be exhibited in the museum over three days.

For this event, join the artist, Rosalind Holgate-Smith, and her collaborator, Katharina Krenkel, around the Dining Room table at Dorich House Museum where the Pleasure Patchwork will be laid out. The talk will begin with time to touch, fumble and feel the fabric and subsequently we will share reflections about touch and the making of the Pleasure Patchwork. In this talk, Rosalind will also be offering insights from her recent PhD research on touch as an encounter with otherness and the vocabulary of touch used in contact improvisation.Rosalind will also talk about the vocabulary of touch techniques developed through her research that stands to enhance empathy, agency, presence, consensual awareness and compassionate and expressive communication skills. While initially designed for dancers, Rosalind’s vocabulary proposes relevance for how touch is experienced and applied in health and social care, in design, in daily social interactions, and for how we relate to the environment.

Please see our website for more information on the Pleasure Patchwork.