Kristen Radge

Kristen Radge examines thinking materially through the haptic relations between her body and the clay body. Foregrounding a situated embodied position on-site through touch informs her mnemonic and self-reflexive narratives and corporeal histories, which are rooted in material memory and documentation. Kristen explores theoretical notions in geosocial and geopolitical strata in which she articulates clay as both geosocial and geopolitical material. Kristen's methodologies provide her an ethical and responsible practice with clay within a situated and embodied approach to negotiate political entanglements with sites. This practice informs how she as a settler, navigates and documents political narratives in clay—temporally, geologically, and culturally.