I remember how much I loved my childhood desk, which had a map of the world on its surface. It was communicative and expressive, yet at the same time mysterious and romantic. Presenting the world as flat, I was endlessly curious about its edges. A map in its minimal elegance tempts our imagination about what is left out, what it does not show.

This text by Chloe Chignell is a 3 part rumination on strategies of touch within the performance Hyperspace. The text stems from ongoing conversations between James and Chloe over the past years. It is indebted to the brilliant feminist philosophers and writers through whose ideas Chloe's body and world are rendered altogether different.

A series of Journal drawings by Annalise Rees created during the studio development process of Deepspace at Tasdance in Launceston Tasmania.