PAST EVENT: This was part of the Refractions X Civic Programme in 2025.

As part of year-round programme Refractions: New Conceptions of Film + Photography, EAF Civic and Rhubaba hosted a film and ceramics workshop series with multi-disciplinary artist Xuanlin Tham. Touch Screen was a sensory experience which blended the erotic pleasures of film and ceramics. Cinema has a profoundly tactile and intimate impact on our bodies, especially through the sex scene, and this workshop invited participants to watch a sensual film while intuitively responding by shaping clay.

In the embodied slippage between image, sound, object, and touch, participants were encouraged to root into the sensate potentials of having a body that can feel pleasure. They later came back to glaze their pieces, and take home their artefact of sensuality.

This workshop series was inspired by Tham’s forthcoming book, Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene.

This event was part of Refractions: New Conceptions of Film + Photography (15 Jan—18 Mar). Co-created by the EAF Civic Programme and Rhubaba, this free event series aimed to connect marginalised people with creativity through film, ceramics, writing, and more. Find out more here.