In this conversation recorded in May 2020, Laura Colomban and Florence Peake talk about assumptions in a white-based somatic world, and through the topic of vibrating materials, move on to talk about the idea of penetration and infection of bodies as a place of desire.

We continued exploring assumptions around audience participation, intentions as felt vibratory matter in the room, telepathy as technology, sexuality and flesh, channelling concerns as a way to process with the audience in a performative platform.

I met her during the MFA Creative Practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and she touched me deeply as a person and artist, I hope you will enjoy our talk.

Bios:
Florence Peake is a London-based artist who has been making solo and group performance works intertwined with an extensive visual art practice since 1995.
Presenting work internationally and across the UK in galleries, theatres and the public realm, Peake is known for an approach that is at once sensual and witty, expressive and rigorous, political and intimate.
Peake produces movement, interactive sculpture, paintings that use the whole body’s physicality, text, film and drawings which respond and intercept each other to articulate, extend and push ideas. Peake’s work explores notions of materiality and physicality: the body as site and vehicle of protest; the erotic and sensual as tools for queering materiality; the subjective and imagined body as a force equal to those that move in our objective flesh-bound world.

Read more (links):

http://www.florencepeake.com

Donna Haraway:
Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press Books. https://www.dawsonera.com:443/abstract/9780822373780

Bell Hooks:
Hooks B. ( 2000). All about love: new visions. New York.

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