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Touch Screen with Xuanlin Tham

St Margaret's House event

15th February 25 - 9th March 25

Touch Screen is a sensory experience blending the erotic pleasures of film and ceramics. Cinema can have a profoundly tactile and intimate impact on our bodies, especially through the sex scene. This workshop will invite you to watch a sensual film while intuitively responding by shaping clay.

In the embodied slippage between image, sound, object, and touch, root into the sensate potentials of having a body that can feel pleasure. Come back to glaze your pieces, and take home your artefact of sensuality.

This workshop series is inspired by Xuanlin’s forthcoming book, Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene which will be published in March 2025 and is now available for preorder here.

Care considerations

This event will discuss erotic pleasures and include imagery of and references to sex scenes throughout. The event will be assisted by a trauma-informed counsellor, trained to support survivors of sexual violence and trauma, who can support participants if needed.

Access Information

  • The group will meet on Floor 3 of St Margaret’s House, by the building’s London Road entrance, from 12.50pm.
  • If you require a step-free entrance, please enter via the big blue door at St Margaret’s House’s basement entrance, and take the lift to Floor 3.
  • Participants will be provided with refreshments throughout the event, but please feel free to bring sandwiches and snacks. 

This event is 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 aims to connect marginalised people with creativity through film, ceramics, writing, and more. Find out more here.

This event is now sold out.

To register for a waiting list, please contact EAF Civic Curator, Elle: [email protected]

Date & Time

Please only register for this event series if you are able to attend both evenings.

Sat 15 Feb + Sun 9 Mar

1—3pm

Venue

St Margaret's House

St Margaret's House 151 London Rd Edinburgh EH7 6AE Google Maps

Website

0131 661 1924

Email

Visitor information

  • Step-free access
  • Accessible Toilets
  • Toilets

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