This workshop will focus on creative forms of description, documentation, and access. Description is a tool we use as artists, researchers, and educators to make work available for analysis, discussion, archiving, another sensory experience—for ourselves, for other artists/researchers/students, for future audiences, and for people who can’t attend a live event, for example, because of where they live, because of time zones, because of their disability or neurodiversity or care responsibilities or work schedule.

Find out more and make a booking here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/chasedtp/t-zzrgnov

You are encouraged to register for both Touching Language workshops (workshop 1 is 1st March, 2-4pm), but may register for one or the other.

About Sophie Seita:

The Touching Language workshops arise out of Sophie Seita’s current artist research project Touching Language, which explores experimental queer writing in and as performance in the visual arts, through collaborative research, multi-sensory practice, creative access, and pedagogical experiments. It also coincides with and draws on Seita’s research residency at Studio Voltaire (February-April 2025).

Sophie Seita is a London-based artist and researcher whose practice is grounded in language and performance but swerves voraciously into other mediums, such as sound, video, textiles, drawing, and installation. Recent work has found a home at diffrakt (Berlin), Ruta del Castor (Mexico City), Mimosa House, Matt’s Gallery, Café Oto, Flat Time House, Rupert (Vilnius), Nottingham Contemporary, Grand Union (Birmingham), FAC (Athens) and elsewhere. They have received grants and awards from Arts Council England, the Canada Council, British Council, DAAD, Creative Scotland, amongst others. Seita recently held the 2023-2024 Werner Düttmann Fellowship at Akademie der Künste, Berlin. She is Director of Critical Studies on the BA Fine Art Extension Programme, Deputy Director of Research, and Lecturer in Fine Art (Studio Practice) at Goldsmiths, University of London.