a meditation.
haptic from the Greek haptein
take hold of, fasten onto, touch.

movement, video, costume, photography, sound/music, objects
excavate and reconfigure cultural imaginaries of the “self”
feminism, capitalism, power.

sampling and reconfiguring cultural artifacts from film, dance, music, and live performance
agency of craft and the power in adornment and self-presentation
politics of the body, labor, identity.

the “broken” check of houndstooth, the tooth, the jagged edge
perfectly systematic but out of step, defiant.
the broken check, clefts in the surface, like foot and finger holds on the face of a cliff
opportunities for gripping, hanging, grasping.

if haptics is a kind of touching, if all the senses can be a kind of touching, can this excavation also be a touching?
is there anything that isn’t touching?

refraction, reflection, density, opacity
imagined anatomies.