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title
Embodiment and Experience – TACK Exhibition
authors
Tom Avermaete Janina Gosseye
Bodies interact with their surroundings. We learn through bodily experiences. ‘Anthropomorphe Form’, an installation that responds to people’s movement through space, draws upon such embodied learning to forge a collective. ‘Tactiles’ similarly uses shared performative experiences to unlearn pre-ordained spatial codes and activate an intuitive process of re-learning.
Embodied experience appeals to different senses. ‘The stool called WALDE’ demonstrates how tacit knowledge is acquired through touch – by direct physical engagement with furniture and its production – while ‘Invisible Elastic Structure’ activates our sense of sight: observing the leaf, we gain insight into its structural and aesthetic behaviour.
Capturing, transmitting or even evoking embodied tacit knowledge is challenging. ‘55°42’14.8”N 12°33’18.4”E’ does so through film, ‘Ulrich Mahler’s Exkursionszettel Wagbachniederung’ uses a map, and ‘Infra-thin Magick’ proposes a performative extended reality model to activate our senses.