This podcast episode is a little different from our usual interviews.
Unlocking Touch uses imaginative sound design, emotionally gripping narrative, and powerful invitations to engage in simple physical practices, to tell the story of Mary’s journey through the COVID19 pandemic. The very rooms in which the listener lives become the setting for this compelling story of restriction and expansion, wellbeing, hope, and connectedness.
We suggest that you listen to Unlocking Touch indoors, ideally alone, or undisturbed by others, and make a ‘nest’, somewhere you can relax, perhaps bring some cushions around you, maybe a duvet or a blanket. You will need:
- Headphones and a mobile phone/device
- The following everyday objects in a box or bag: 1) a stone (any kind, any size), 2) a heavy soft object about the weight of a bag of flour (perhaps a cushion), 3) an object that reminds you of someone you feel close to (not a photo)
When you are seated in your nest, with your box of items nearby, press play to listen to Unlocking Touch.
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This is a research-based creative project undertaken as a part of the InTouch project, a European Research Council Consolidator Award (Award Number: 681489), with support from the UCL Knowledge Exchange fund, and Studio Wayne McGregor.
Unlocking Touch Team:
- Kirsty Cox (Actor)
- Carey Jewitt (Researcher)
- David Lane (Playwriter and Co-Director)
- Jo Newman (Directorial support)
- Helen Skiera (Sound-maker)
- Lisa May Thomas (Choreographer and Co-Director)
IN-TOUCH: DIGITAL TOUCH COMMUNICATION 