Score for Surface is an ongoing collaborative proposition by Michelle Mantsio and Phoebe Whitman. The project approaches surface not as a boundary, but as an active site of emergence, encounter, and transformation. Here, the score enables attentiveness – acting as a porous and responsive field through which material, spatial, and temporal conditions are sensed, repeated, annotated and reconfigured. This iteration explores surface in relation to structure as both scaffold and threshold – permeable, unstable, and continually surfacing.
is a lecturer, artist, and designer. Her research-based practice explores intersections of body, pattern, and improvisation through contemporary art and design. Working across film, installation, performance, textiles, and design, she investigates embodiment, agency, and relational becoming within spatio-temporal conditions. She holds Bachelor of Fine Art, Masters of Art in Public Space, and a PhD titled Lagniappe (2026).
