Join Amanda Couch in this online event to explore skin and screens, surfaces that can both unite and connect us, but also shield and separate us. Skin is an intermediary between us and the world, our channel for connection through touch. Our increasing dependence on screens during the pandemic is facilitating social connectedness, while protecting us from the risks of proximity and exposure to touch.

Amanda will consider the screen as a stand-in for our skin, supporting us to “keep in touch” in more than one sense. Alongside the live talk, a prerecorded video will be shown showcasing new artworks from Amanda exploring these ideas.

Live speech-to-text is provided by VoiceBox, our stenographer today is Euan Williams.

About your speaker
Amanda Couch is an award-winning artist, researcher and senior lecturer whose practices cut across media: performance, sculpture, photography, print and the book, food, the everyday, participation, and writing to research and reimagine histories of the body.

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