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Take off your shoes and explore stories about the creativity of touch.
“The ideated sensation of touch heightens our sense of reality in a way that ordinary visual sensations do not.”
Bernard Berenson on Goethe
“Touch is so powerful a healer that we go to professional touchers (doctors, hairdressers, masseuses, dancing instructors, cosmeticians, barbers, gynecologists, chiropodists, tailors, back manipulators, prostitutes, and manicurists), and frequent emporiums of touch—discothèques, shoeshine stands, mud baths.”
Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
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Touching art - Jane Théau's work reflects the primordial role of tactility in the way we think and feel.
Inner Traces: A dance of three rings - Inner Traces is an elemental dance of metal and flesh. It was performed by Michaela Pegum using only her two hands adorned by three gold rings. She explains how this work came about and what she learnt from it.
The use of function - Rob Barnard argues for the value of use in ceramics as the door into a multi-sensuous experience.
The social lamellophone - Gary Warner guides us through the journey of a lamellaphone, from its history in Africa to its urban reconstruction in Sydney as a social object. This article betrays a unique interplay between art, craft, music and community.
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