THE INVISIBLE TOUCH. UNSICHTBAR WAHRNEHMBAR

The Invisible Touch

brings together an international group of artists whose works confirms different modes of sensory based communication. Next to
sight-sound, smell, taste and touch, sensual experiences that make reality palpable, play a major role in their work.

In the process, by exploring sentient dimensions, these artists achieve a more concrete and experiential connection with their public, full of living and individuated possibilities that articulate their artwork as a vital experience rather than as a form of mediated representation. The artist in this project effect a redestination from aesthetic formality to a directness of the creative experience. Their artwork „is“ and „does“ rather than simply represent or depict. The works in this project strive for a flexible, elastic connection with various real life situations and or experiences that would extend the performative possibility of art, and thereby also strengthen its connection with life.

The Invisible Touch

provides an opportunity to experience art less as a one-sided object or effect set up for edification, than a reciprocating and less predictable exchange of communication. Through various methods, these contemporary practices expand our experience of artwork as a rich perceptual activity, urging us to rethink and reimagine the world around us. The artists in

The Invisible Touch

seek out sensory modes of engagement that intensify the communique between artwork and its public as an exploratory gestalt. By favoring open--ended, negotiable dialogs with their public, the artwork in this project suggests sentient--experiential communication as a new realism in the making.

artists list:
Martin Creed, Anya Gallaccio, Kendell Geers, Manfred Grübl, Jens Haaning, Michael Kienzer, Job Koelewijn, Mischa Kuball, Achim Mohné, Ernesto Neto, Flora Neuwirth, Lucy Orta, Marina Rosenfeld, Martin Walde, Fritz Fitzke/Tapsi/Julia Zdarsky

curator: Maia Damianovic