ABSTRACT
This chapter conceptualizes intracorporeality by showing how heat and vitrification are shared and embodied across the multiple bodies of the hotshop. It contributes to an understanding of how intercorporeality and intracorporeality generate studio life to ethnographies of the formation of community and meaning through, with and from the crafting body in relation to the material world. The chapter explains a collaborative art, glassblowing has been practiced by teams from the early Roman Empire, through the Venetian Renaissance, into pre-industrial nineteenth-century factories and contemporary glassblowing studios. Hot glass was the last form of glasswork to enter artists' studios, following warm and cold glass methodologies in the early twentieth century, such as stained glass, enamelling and etching. The practical history of the emergence of American studio glassblowing is situated to a great extent outside of any given studio, distributed between and among collaborating individuals, as well as more or less sufficient tools, equipment, materials and, importantly, the American factory.
