This thesis opens fermentation as a haptic and choreographic knowledge, in which the ontological articulations of “intra-activity” and “entanglements” of Karen Barad's quantum field theory invite the question: what and how is transmitted in a movement when we touch with our fingers? Thinking with practices of speculative fabulation and realist speculations, the work draws from the theories of curiosity of Donna J. Haraway, Vinciane Despret, Anna Tsing, and Lynn Margulis, among others. Fermentation is an intra-active and multi-species practice in constant motion, in which the synaesthesia of haptic visuality co-configures new movements to inhabit the world. Starting from the microscopic and domestic gesture of bread-making within the Sicilian culinary culture, the thesis shifts between situated and affective traditions and infinite significations in ferment. 

Author: Adriana A. Leanza