Welcoming the more-than-human world on a puppetry stage.

Dr Sabrina Recoules Quang

I'm interested in how craft, technology and ecological systems can co-exist, embodied, poetic, sometimes a little strange. My work explores material agency in performance, drawing on thinkers like Donna Haraway and Ron Wakkary, alongside training in puppetry, mask and object theatre, and computational arts, and a PhD in Textiles from the Royal College of Art, where I developed a method for storytelling through material interference.

I don't try to resolve the questions I raise. I'd rather open a space, for sensing, thinking and relating differently, where migration, sustainability and diversity can be present without being flattened into a single fixed story.

That question led me to train in improvisational Saori weaving through a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England, integrating sensors and thermochromic materials directly into woven structures. It's also what I'm carrying into Textile Migrants-An Ecological Tale, my current stop-motion project, handmade textile creatures moving through forced displacement, their materials communicating with their environment through colour.

I collaborate with artists, researchers and designers drawn to soft systems, more-than-human performance and material storytelling."

Theatredu1k

Theatredu1k is the practice name behind this work, puppetry, textile craft and responsive technology brought together into installations, shadow theatre and performance