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Ilinx by Chris Salter + TeZ

Materials: Wearable garments, custom hardware and software, LEDs, LEDCON2 DMX controllers, DMX interface, audio interfaces, servo motors, Acouspade beam based loudspeakers, computer

Ilinx is a performative environment for the general public provoking an intense bodily experience that blurs the senses of sight, sound and touch. In the environment, a group of four visitors at a time wear specially designed garments. These wearables are outfitted with various sensing and actuating devices that enable visitors to interface with the performance space. During the event, a ritualistic progression which lasts approximately twenty minutes, the natural continuum between sound and vibration, vision and feeling becomes increasingly blurred, extending and stretching the body’ boundaries beyond the realm of everyday experience.

The project is inspired by work in the area of what is called sensory substitution – the replacement of one sensory input (vision, hearing, touch, taste or smell) by another, while preserving some of the key functions of the original sense.

The term ilinx (Greek for whirlpool) comes from the French sociologist Roger Caillois and describes play that creates a temporary but profound disruption of perception as is common in experiences of vertigo, dizziness, or disorienting changes of speed, direction or the body’s sense in space. “…An attempt to momentarily destroy the stability of perception and inflict a kind of voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind.”

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NEW Audio Review: A Play of Senses: Displace (v 1.0) at the Hexagram-Concordia, Montreal QC by Nicole Labruto

Sensate has a new review published! Nicole Labruto, a PhD candidate at MIT, reviews "Displace (v. 1.0)," an exhibit by anthropologist David Howes and artists Chris Salter and TeZ.

Excerpt:

"Howes collaborated with media artists Chris Salter and TeZ to make a play of senses—a performance that disaggregated and rearranged the senses through the novel interplay of sights, sounds, tastes, and feelings. They wanted their sensorial art to elicit visceral reactions, like a painting or a piece of music. Howes brought his anthropological sensibility to the installation, using Salter and TeZ's sound, light, smell and taste-scapes to recreate another way of experiencing."

Listen to the full review here!