touching the touch: (im)material skins and haptic hallucinations is an artistic exploration centred on touch as a form of listening and the interplay between sensation and matter. Through a multidisciplinary prism, the project unfolds multiple sensory modalities: the haptic vision, the flesh touch and the tactile ear into artistic practice. This study delves into touch as a primary sense of nearness, intimacy and reciprocity, to cultivate an augmented perceptibility to the vibrational essence of the world. 

In a world dominated by vision, where the surface we touch the most is a dull, flat phone screen, we wondered: What happens when we turn our attention to the felt sensations? How do materials reveal their memories and stories? By giving agency to touch as an ubiquitous connecting force, every surface becomes a perceptive field and every body a permeable system. Membranes, edges, textures and oscillations unveil the inner trails of the (im)material: hidden geologies, sticky traces, elastic rooms and deep timings. 

This project was initiated by the musician Hara Alonso in collaboration with the artist Hiroko Tsuchimoto and joined by the choreographer Ellen Söderhult, the musicians Vilhelm Bromander and Ryan Packard and the graphic designer Sissela Blanco. Muchas gracias to the contributors, Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola and Alba Pagán for their beautiful poems. Special thanks to Folk i Skärholmen for hosting the project and specially to Izabella Borzecka for the curation and support.

Together with the exhibition Hara Alonso & Hiroko Tsuchimoto edited a publication in collaboration with Ellen Söderhult, Alba Pagán and Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola., with graphic design by Sissela Blanco.