Touch Me
The Judas Version
sensory art experience
a performance for 30 spectators and their five senses
created by Antonio Damasco
with Antonio Damasco, Silvia Edera, Oscar Malusa, Francesca Bodanza
With eyes blindfolded, time quickly flies by. But “Touch me: the sensory art experience” lasts over half an hour. It is a suggestive journey during which the spectator does not hold back: first you will be asked to confront yourself and then your surroundings. Only thirty participants will be led through the museum. Eyes will look at the great clay
statues that emerge through the dim light. Then you take your seat in front of a dark screen. What comes next? You won’t know, in a few seconds you will make yourself comfortable and tie a black blindfold over your eyes. And then voices can be heard, a dialogue, the presence of someone touching your hand, the smell of delicate incense, music. More words, touching, and the air moving. The darkness changes the way we perceive dimension, smell, and sound. We find ourselves tense and intuitive of what will come, perhaps harbouring a pinch of fear.
Vanna Pescatori
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Deprived of sight, the perception of art, and its inherent desire to be absolute, comes across through touch, taste, smell, and sounds that emerge from each piece of art, for what it is and what it recalls and represents. Only at the end will spectators and actors confront their individual experiences with a viewing of the artwork, finally revealed.
