Sabrina Recoules Quang
Material storytelling through puppetry, textiles, and responsive systems
I am an artist, puppeteer, and researcher working with material-led storytelling across textiles, objects, movement, and responsive technologies. In my performances and installations, puppets interact with their environments, materials shift in colour or texture, and narratives unfold through embodied, sensory engagement.
My practice imagines worlds where objects, plants, fabrics, and people share the act of storytelling. I draw on traditions of puppetry, body-based theatre, and computational art to create spaces where materials behave, react, and respond. Influenced by thinkers such as Donna Haraway and Ron Wakkary, I explore how creative practices can foster attentiveness, connection, and more-than-human collaboration.
Selected Works
- 2024 E-stitches (zine publication)
- 2018
The Code is a Shadow Bubble, EVA Conference, V&A London, UK - 2017 Look at the Other, Virtuality Mortality, Ugly Duck, London , UK Overlap, MA/MFA Computational Arts, Goldsmiths, UK
- 2016 Working Girl Goes to Motherhood, Nursery Theatre London, UK. My Name Is, Drama Art Centre, Malta, ITL .
- 2015 My Name Is, Eden Gallery Berlin, DE & Drama Art Centre Malta, ITL
Metamorphosis, Suspense Festival, Little Angel Theatre, UK - 2014 City Girl, Trunkated, Blue Elephant Theatre, London, UK
- 2013 City Girl, Skipton Festival
- 2012 Wild Night of the Witches, Little Angel Theatre
Academic
- Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art (2019–2024) Textile Design, Design Research, Executive Education
- Member, Soft Systems Research Group, Royal College of Art
Education
- PhD in Textiles, Royal College of Art, London (2024)
Thesis: “Storytelling with Material Interferences” – practice-led research in puppetry, responsive textiles, and material agency - MFA in Computational Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London (2016–2018)
- Movement and Improvisation Practitioner, LISPA, Berlin (2014–2015)
- Diploma in Puppetry, London School of Puppetry (2010–2013)
- Additional training at Little Angel Theatre and Puppets in Prague Clowning with Angela de Castro (Why Not Institute)