Tactile Interaction. Acts of Entanglement.
A participatory performative structure at Gothenburg City Library, Sweden.
The imperfect, physical state of being and relating to our environment and each other needs more attention. Touch can be interpreted as an embodied element of the in-between, and foremost as an interpersonal connector. The project seeks to revive the appreciation of the sense of touch - the first sense to develop in the womb.
“Lacking an organ of its own and being spread out over the whole body, touch is intimately connected to one’s feeling of corporeal existence.”
Mika Elo & Miika Luoto, 2018
Eventually, it might not be about the physical manifestations of touch itself, but about the (self-) awareness and the relationships a tactual approach can create. Explorations into the sense of touch and the sensations of contact (re)invite people to (re)connect to their innate tactile capacities.
“The project’s value is not what it achieves or does but what it is and how it makes people feel, especially if it encourages people to question, in an imaginative, troubling, and thoughtful way, everydayness and how things could be different.”
Tony Dunne & Fiona Raby, 2013
Pictures: Fanny Lindh, Jessica Litzel, Livia Walker, Participants’ collective documentation via disposable cameras