DISPLACE
2011
“DISPLACE is a performative environment, and was open to the general public and delegates to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) meetings in Montreal from November 16 through 20, 2011.
DISPLACE intermingles multiple sensory phenomena in order to heighten and transform our habitual modes of perception. Over a 45 minute period, groups of 6 visitors progress through a sequence of sensory-based environments. At first, these environments intermingle gustatory and haptic stimuli and then gradually convoke all the senses inside intense, almost hallucinatory spaces where flickering color, sound and tactile vibrations and fleeting tastes and scents merge to the point of saturation.”
This project brought together artists, artisans, and academics from multiple disciplines to create a journey through sensory ethnography. It was performed/exhibited inside the Hexagram Blackbox at Concordia University.
Credits: Chris Salter, TeZ, David Howes + Anke Burger, Shannon Collis, Natalie Doonan, Florencia Marchetti, David Szanto, Harry Smoak, Matt Tremblay
Press article “Écoute et goûte, c’est la Redoute” from voir.ca in French.
