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Efpraxia Georgarou
multi sensorial art
Multi sensorial Art
Art should not be reserved only for people who have the appropriate knowledge, patience and willingness to contemplate properly. The persistence of so many years, in the optical perceiving of art has even lead to the exclusion of social groups from enjoying a work of art. Instead art should be an experience to '' touch '' parts of the deeper self that needs to be 'touched' ', depending on each different viewer.
The multi-sensory boxes are a series of 'boxes' in various shapes and sizes which aim at exploring the senses and rethink the way of viewing a work of art, to a more holistic experience of it. In art, the production of associative representations inside the brain or the chance for mental reconsideration during the live experience of an artwork , should not be reliant on a single dominant sense but to a cooperation between all of them.
In my study I attempt to work on how all this knowledge can be concentrated on works of art that can equally be seen , touched , smelled , be tasted by , heard and be perceived with the same significance. Starting by confusing senses, proving that our eyes, the organ we all consider as the dominant one, can be easily get in disadvantageous position over the other senses; continuing with engage senses on the inside part of the '' Multi sensorial boxes" , trying to make them function as a stimulus for mental reconsideration , or just a trigger that works differently on every one of us.
For this kind of artistic research, performance art is an indivisible part of my studies, as a way to engage myself with the contemplators and to understand better their thoughts and needs. To make a use of the sound, the smell, the noise, the touch and the vision with the presence of myself and to be led to a better understanding of how art can be engaged with all of our senses , creating different answers in every different individual.’’