Since publishing their book Meeting the Universe Halfway (2007), Barad has become an increasingly cited source on how we comprehend and interact with the material world. Beginning with a background in quantum physics, Barad shifted their attention to feminist theory. As they wrote in 2019, ‘quantum theory is shot through with the political’. Their stance is one of entanglement and complication, where agency is a relationship, not something owned, or given or taken away – notions that apply to paintings as much as protest. Barad has been present this year with a series of talks across academic, art and philosophical contexts, from Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s ‘Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities’ in Helsinki to the Temporal Belonging network’s annual conference on ‘The Material Life of Time’, but even more through the incessant nods to their work, featured in pieces by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Fred Moten, and their idea of the ‘intra- active’ being referenced on countless exhibition press releases.