The Pleasure Patchwork is project that explores touch and receptivity.  A collaboration between myself, a Dancer and the Sculptor, Katharina Krenkel, based in Saarbrucken, south Germany. Together we are growing a blanket, an interactive soft sculpture made of reversible cocks and invaginated forms.  Inspired by the skin, the blanket invites touch and explorations in receptivity and pleasure, questioning how much it is possible to feel in our everyday actions that extend out into the world. Through the process of making and dancing with these worm-like forms I have been exploring this question and wondering what pleasure people know? What pleasure we might imagine and are we open to experience? 
In 2023 we received funding support from Dis-Tanz Solo Fund, Dachverband Deutschland and Saarland arts funding, from which Katharina has been crocheting the Pleasure Patchwork pieces and I have been dancing with them; creating choreography and hosting dance workshops that invite participants to move with the worms, explore pleasure and cultivate a sensorial language beginning with touch.
Katharina and I are now preparing to piece together and exhibit the Pleasure Patchwork on 24-25th February 2024, in an OPEN STUDIOS work in progress sharing @GlogauAIR in Berlin. Over two days you are invited to see the patchwork blanket being sewn together and experience our first pleasure performance concerts. During our open studio hours there will be the opportunity also to interact with our growing worm like underworld. Please come along, entrance is FREE.
Saturday, 24th February, 3 – 6 pm
Sunday, 25th February, 3 – 7 pm
+ Artist Talk & Q&A 6 pm
Glogauer Str. 16
Berlin 10999:
Featuring also:
Musician: Abhishek
Dancers: Lea FultonKatarzyna Brzezinska & Rosalind Holgate Smith
Dramaturgy: Maria Vittoria Caput

Drawings and designs by Rosalind Holgate Smith​​​​​​​
You are invited to take part in this project by
Attending a workshop
Workshops involve guided explorations in movement and touch to cultivate receptivity and a sense of listening through the skin. The skin opens the doorway to feel the whole body and as we experiment in gesturing out to the world we will explore how much we can feel in movement and action. You will also be invited to dive into questions and conversations about pleasure. Through writing and sometimes audio recording we will document, and archive our experiences that may feature in our later exhibits.  
If you have a group and would like to book a workshop please get in touch to arrange: rosalindholgatesmith@gmail.com
Crocheting a piece of the blanket...
If you know how to crochet or would like to make your piece of the patchwork at home, we will send you Pleasure Kit in the post. For €30 your pack will include the wool (you can choose from a selection of skin colours), a crochet hook, instruction pattern and your pleasure interview. We ask you to post this back to us when you have completed your part. We also have a number of videos and online resources to support you in the making that you can access on this page or via our instagram.
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Thank you!
How to begin to crochet you piece of the pleasure patchwork....
Photography and crochet models by Katharina Krenkel
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