A Conversation with Rachel Gadsden
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https://doi.org/10.54337/ojs.jos.v11i2.11298Abstract
This interview with Rachel Gadsden, conducted by Journal of Somaesthetics editor, Mark Tschaepe, examines somaesthetics through the lens of lived vulnerability, artistic practice, and collective survival. Drawing on her background in theatre, visual and performance art, and her lifelong experience of chronic illness and progressive sight loss, Gadsden reflects on embodiment as an inseparable unity of body and subject rather than a dualistic opposition. The conversation situates her work within a phenomenological and somaesthetic framework, emphasizing how bodily fragility, breath, mortality, and sensory distortion shape both artistic expression and ethical attention to the human condition.
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