Creating Communal Comfort
I live with pain. I also live with sensory overload. So I am thinking about how artists make spaces that are in better communion with the body and lots of other bodies.
REDE SOCIAL REDE SOCIAL, São Paulo (Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro) (2017) by OPAVIVARÁ!
To Hammock
My ideal state of being, is to Hammock. here, every movement of my body can be supported, and I can be suspended, temporarily, without pain.
When I hammock, I am free.
THIS / OPAVIVARÁ! is an art collective from Rio de Janeiro. They have made many public installations using hammocks, often as massive communal spaces, that also make social and political commentary on the significance of the hammock to Brazilian Ingenious cultures.
Ernesto Neto, Humanoids, (2001)
THIS / “body/space/landscape”
Ernesto Neto.
“When Attitudes Become Forms”
Franz Erhard Walther
THIS / snuggle Snooze stimulate
What if the MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM in Tokyo, was informed by Snoezelen research? What if artists could be trained in developing user-centred multi-sensory spaces, to develop rich works of art built for these experiences?