
Imagine if your body was a (2018)
Speculative objects made for body listening. Sound is another way of touching.
Listening is a combined effort for the human body’s organs, involving the ears, the eyes and also the skin. The skin touch in the air - The piece is a wish to extend our attention and through sound give sense to other parts of our sensory body.
The piece explores sound as perception of touch. Hearing a specific word feels like touch in one specific part of the body meaning that sounds can create a sensation on the skin without being touched.
Experiencing the tactile sense of airflow in order to speculate on the ability of the skin to contribute to hearing. We can hear sounds in the absence of airflow.
’Imagine if your body was a’ plays on the audience's own bodily experience and asks questions about how we sense the world with our body.
The body attuned to and transform by the vibrations of its environment, the sound becomes imagined through the perception of touch.