"Get in touch (with)" / ("Etwas Aufnehmen") is a performance about the sense of touch and the translation between the visual and the tactile. The performance was created through six months of research and exchange with a blind artist, a blind writer, an animal shiatsu expert, a translator of tactile learning materials and a dog (Betty).
"Get in touch (with)" is a 30 minute performance at a 15 meter long table with 80 kg of kinetic sand and was premiered 3 times at the end of February 2023.
performance, research, writing, animation, sound, exhibition design, graphics, talk
a) Extract from the first chapter of the reading performance.
From conversations with: Monika H., Dr. Thorsten S., Fabian K., Annika E., Monika O., Betty
Concept, graphics, text: Saskia van der Meer
Technical support: Juliane Schmitt, Vivian Reuter
Animation, sound, scenography: Saskia van der Meer
Documentation: Pauline Cemeris (video), Karolina Sobel, Lizzy Ellbrück, Mona Mayer, Calvin Kudufia (photo)
Translation: Johanna Schäfer, Cody B. Strange
Poster together with: Isabel Motz
Thank you: James Langdon, Ivan Weiss, Michael Kryenbühl
b) Extract from a talk about the visual sense of touch, Karlsruhe 2023.
Behind the scenes of:
1), 2), 3) Workshop week with Betty
4) Drawing together with Betty
5), 6) Betty as sound and camera dog
7) Contact and communication with horses in Daxlanden
8) Modelling with Monika H.
9) Monika H.'s bear, approx. 15 cm
10) Dr. Thorsten S. translates tactile images into visuals
11) Fabian K. finds image descriptions for visual images
"Get in touch (with)" / ("Etwas Aufnehmen") is a performance about the sense of touch and the translation between the visual and the tactile. The performance was created through six months of research and exchange with a blind artist, a blind writer, an animal shiatsu expert, a translator of tactile learning materials and a dog (Betty).
"Get in touch (with)" is a 30 minute performance at a 15 meter long table with 80 kg of kinetic sand and was premiered 3 times at the end of February 2023.
performance, research, writing, animation, sound, exhibition design, graphics, talk
a) Extract from the first chapter of the reading performance.
From conversations with: Monika H., Dr. Thorsten S., Fabian K., Annika E., Monika O., Betty
Concept, graphics, text: Saskia van der Meer
Technical support: Juliane Schmitt, Vivian Reuter
Animation, sound, scenography: Saskia van der Meer
Documentation: Pauline Cemeris (video), Karolina Sobel, Lizzy Ellbrück, Mona Mayer, Calvin Kudufia (photo)
Translation: Johanna Schäfer, Cody B. Strange
Poster together with: Isabel Motz
Thank you: James Langdon, Ivan Weiss, Michael Kryenbühl
b) Extract from a talk about the visual sense of touch, Karlsruhe 2023.
Behind the scenes of:
1), 2), 3) Workshop week with Betty
4) Drawing together with Betty
5), 6) Betty as sound and camera dog
7) Contact and communication with horses in Daxlanden
8) Modelling with Monika H.
9) Monika H.'s bear, approx. 15 cm
10) Dr. Thorsten S. translates tactile images into visuals
11) Fabian K. finds image descriptions for visual images