Introduction: other sensualities

This article, which serves as an introduction to the special issue explains our collective interest in the haptic as an object of inquiry. These collected essays generate critical insight into emergent tactile economies and approach the haptic as a specific set of material negotiations between bodie...

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Published in:Women & performance 2014-09, Vol.24 (2-3), p.129-133
Main Author: Bradley, Rizvana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aesthetic production
blackness
food
gender
haptic
materiality
Moten
performativity
phenomenology
queer
race
texture
undercommons
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Summary:This article, which serves as an introduction to the special issue explains our collective interest in the haptic as an object of inquiry. These collected essays generate critical insight into emergent tactile economies and approach the haptic as a specific set of material negotiations between bodies, spaces, and objects. Together the essays consider how touching, folding, fingering, or tracing the texture of an object, offer themselves as techniques of knowing in art and performance. In so doing, they expand the critical parameters of what the haptic can mean not simply in diverse contexts of art and art making, but more specifically, at the crucial edges of performance and social practice.
ISSN:0740-770X
1748-5819
DOI:10.1080/0740770X.2014.976494