this space is for you:
exploring the atmospherics of radical hospitality

Creative Director:
Shauna Janssen
 

Research-creation team:
Laura Acosta
JoDee Allen
Esteban Donoso
Steven Greenwood
Syd Hosseini
Peng Hsu
Gabriela Petrov
Kévin Pinvidic

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this space is for you 2.0 investigates the concept of radical hospitality in embodied and experiential ways using technologies of capture. 

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this space is for you 2.0 is both a conceptual place and emergent performance space from which to collectively stage gestures of hospitality and to underscore the political work of deviating from the sociocultural norms that predominantly drive the pervasiveness of ‘world building’ immersive environments with XR technologies. The project engages with notions of digital tenderness (Axelsson 2024) as a dramaturgical consideration for staging environments of hospitality, and tenderness as methodology for undertaking embodied and collective experiments with technologies of capture.

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The project builds on Janssen’s ongoing project, this space is for you, a platform for centering queer phenomenology, pluriversal scenographic design practices and feminist technoscience studies as embodied methodologies for creating with technologies of capture and the capacity immersive environments have to reveal and stage atmospherics of hospitality.

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​In 2025 PULSE began to host weekly research-creation activities focused on the theme of radically hospitality. In late June the collective undertook a creation residency at 4th Space, Concordia University. Residency activities included the creation of a series of performance scores, emerging from somatic explorations, that brought forth questions of time, repetition, echoes and traces, and the mutual affectation of bodies and spaces — challenging the real–virtual dichotomy of performing with technologies of capture, and addressing the complexities in between. These scores, derived largely from somatic work, invited participants to consider how to create and inhabit a familiar–unfamiliar, always-elusive space in ways that welcome the plural, the queer, and the unexpected.

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The research is funded by:

Hexagram réseau de recherche-création en arts, cultures et technologies

Milieux Institute for Art, Culture & Technology

Concordia’s office of the Vice Provost, Research, Innovation & Impact

Hemispheric Encounters (SSHRC PG).