As we look forward to reopening this September with our as yet unseen exhibition Soft Bodies, we have commissioned a special episode of exhibiting artist Emma Cousin’s podcast ‘Chats in Lockdown’.

For this episode Cousin invited writer Rajesh Parameswaran (author of I Am an Executioner: Love Stories (2013) described by The Washington Post as “the advent of a genuinely distinctive voice in American fiction.”) and fellow exhibiting artist Megan Snowe.

Their conversation takes the Soft Bodies exhibition as a starting point as well as the restrictions and changes to our daily activities caused by Covid-19, such as the increasing presence of video conferencing in our lives. The discussion takes places via the internet between London and New York and takes in such subjects as the disembodying and embodying nature of technology. The removal of things from the body, phantom limbs, body trash and the potential of inhabiting our non-flesh-based erogenous selves.

The podcast also features music from Semi Precious, who collaborated with artist Jake Moore on Other Life (2019) also exhibited as part of the Soft Bodies exhibition.