Spatial Relationship

Trajectories of Desire: A Sociology of the Non-Rational

Krista Connerly

Over the past year, I have engaged in a series of experiments that have to do with the collapsing of personal and social space, as well as the mapping and negotiation of desire within that space. These experiments took the form of contact that I have made with people I have sat next to on various transit systems.

What does touch consist of? How does the physical body extend into the space around it? What and where are the spaces around our body that we consider ourselves? (I.e. the space between our shoulder and neck). How dense is our spatial self? How far does it extend into our environment? How do we negotiate our spatial selves and desire? How intimate can we make a stranger? How strange can we make ourselves?

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