The germinal ground for Tacturiency was the project Fragile Materials, a 3 month residency undertaken by Clare Thornton at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 2011. As part of this residency, Thornton invited Cocker to join her for 1 week to explore shared ideas around the motif of the fold and various conceptualizations of folding.
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| Clare Thornton, Heightened States of Making |
Since then Tacturiency (the word meaning the desire of touching,
to touch, to be touched) has emerged as a practice-based interdisciplinary enquiry between Cocker and Thornton, for exploring notions of touch, folding, fainting, falling, involving performance, photography, video, sculptural-material practice & poetico-theoretical reflection.
