Luminous Touch Subnet AIR
A touch on one body ripples through another — through light, through sound, through the room itself. After six weeks at subnetAIR in Salzburg, Luminous Touch is no longer a prototype. It’s an instrument.
A touch on one body ripples through another — through light, through sound, through the room itself. After six weeks at subnetAIR in Salzburg, Luminous Touch is no longer a prototype. It’s an instrument.
Luminous Touch explores and redefines touch through two innovative suits covered with joysticks, combining technology and art. It explores human connection, offering new perspectives on intimacy, empathy, and communication, while creating a platform for creative interactions.
Together with people with acquired neurological disorders, we created this interactive sculpture using moulds of their bodies and kinetic elements.
Latex prints of dancers’ bodies and latex surfaces in the piece ‘EpicDermis’ by Cooperativa Maura Morales to highlight the sensations of touch and skin on the big stage.
The exhibition at Kunsthafen Cologne explores the boundary between the longing for closeness and the impossibility of touch and intimacy.
On a typewriter, a single finger writes love letters and letters of physical desire.
The finished letter falls down and a new one is created. They are conceived and written by a machine.
„Feel in my Skin“ sind Abgüsse der Oberkörper von Alexandra und Matthias.
Jede Pore, jede Falte, jedes Detail ihrer Haut wurde mit Latex abgeformt. Der Versuch, sich so nah wie möglich zu kommen, in die Haut der anderen Person zu schlüpfen, sie ganz auszufüllen. Intim, martialisch und Zeugnis einer tiefen Sehnsucht.
So wie Erinnerungen und der Wunsch nach Nähe kommen und gehen, nähert und entfernt sich der aus Latex geschaffene Abdruck eines heruntergekommenen alten Bremer Restaurants und nimmt Besucher:innen in sich auf.
Moving images. Derealization is an alteration in the perception of the external world, causing those with the condition to perceive it as unreal, distant, distorted or in other words falsified.
Kinetic installation, photography, latex prints of skin. Exhibition at the ADA (Vienna), May 2019.