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Bringing London to its senses
OPENSENSES
FESTIVAL
19–21 May 2017
The Team
Creative Director Stephanie Singer
Producer Josh McNorton
Operations Ronald Ligtenberg
Development Lawrence Becko
Assistant Producers Kare Khoo Kayleigh Drake Ronald Moes
Creative Advisor Eugene Feygelson
Communications Advisor Jon Slack
Volunteer Coordinator Samantha Dube
Hub Coordinators Anna Ovcharenko Judy Nadel Linzy Na Nakorn
Graphic Designer Rob Ricketts
Open Senses is a not-for-profit project and all its team members and contributors are volunteers.
Overview
Open Senses is a weekend festival of art exhibitions, live events and performances, sensory journeys and walks, open studios and labs, and a ground-breaking symposium. It has taken a small team of volunteers over two years to plan this festival and we’re incredibly proud of the programme.
We chose London as the city to launch Open Senses because it is a world-leading centre of excellence in sensory practice. We are inviting all Londoners, as well as each and every tourist and visitor, to freely come and open your senses; to awaken your nose, tastebuds, and skin to the world; to notice and savour the natural, physical environment around you.
Open Senses will showcase sensory practice as a powerful tool to evoke true human emotion and create warm, lasting memories. This is a festival for every woman, man and child to hear, see, feel, taste and experience.
Enjoy the weekend and let’s get sensual!
—Stephanie Singer, Founder & Creative Director
Sensory Journeys
Experience the full diversity of Open Senses and travel on one of our suggested sensory routes:
The Up Close and Sensory (Sat)
An intimate, cerebral exploration of the senses through art and music
10:00 Open Senses Hub (Trampery)15:00 Ushers Syndrome
(Moorfields Eye Hospital)18:00 I=U (Shoreditch Church)23:00 We Are Now (Juju’s Bar)
The Art of the Senses (Weekend)
Pre-book the latest in art and installations exploring the senses
Saturday
12:00 Sensory Fun (V&A) 14:00 Materials Library (Institute of Making) 15:00 Umweltern (Royal Academy of Arts) 19:00 Babel in Bloom (St Augustine’s Tower)
Sunday
Firnocene / HtS-Labs: Institute for Sensory Reconnection (Old Truman Brewery) Crossmodalist Cabaret (Platform Southwark)
Crossmodalism (Weekend)
The senses collaborate, and so do we
Saturday
14:00 Three Studies in Synaesthesia (Rebecca Hossack Gallery)
17:00 Crossmodalist Cabaret (Platform Southwark)
Sunday
Firnocene / HtS-Labs: Institute for Sensory Reconnection (Old Truman Brewery) End the day at Dans Le Noir for dinner
Embodied (Weekend)
A route for the mind and body
Saturday
10:00 Open Senses Hub (Trampery)13:00 Umweltern (Royal Academy of Arts)16:45 BitterSuite: Tapestries
(Royal Opera House)19:00 Crossmodalist Cabaret
(Platform Southwark)Sunday
Open Senses Hub (Trampery)
Common Sense (Weekend)
Explore the hidden meanings behind the senses
Friday
15:00 Open Senses Symposium (Institute of Philosophy)
Saturday
14:00 Law and the Senses (Westminster University)
Sunday
14:00 Relax with Paintings (National Gallery)
The Wake Up Call (Weekend)
Energise your senses
Saturday
Open Senses Hub (Trampery)
16:45 BitterSuite: Tapestries (Royal Opera House)
21:00 Sencity (Islington Assembly hall)
Sunday
Head to St Augustine’s Tower for Babel in Bloom
Events
FRIDAY ONLY
Open Senses Symposium
Senate House University of London, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU Friday Only | 15:00–21:00 | £ Accessible
The Open Senses Symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of practitioners and artists exploring sensory practice. The event features exhibition stalls, panel discussions, pop-up talks and experiences. It will showcase work in academia, inclusive practice, scent, food, medicine, theatre, music, law, typography, dance and more.
The goal of the Symposium is to challenge, demonstrate and interrogate how sensory practice is capable of building greater connection to the world, our environment, the people around us and ourselves.
Programme Includes: Prof. Barry Smith, Prof. David Howes, Prof. Juhani Pallasmaa, Prof. Charles Spence, Kate Goodwin (Royal Academy of Arts), Vetyver, Dr. Katy Whitcroft, Amy Neilson Smith and Zara Jarrold, BitterSuite, V&A, Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Alan Marsden, Beth Harland and Ian Heywood (LICA), Kara Jarrold (Sense UK), Andrew Mashigo (MaMoMi), Bushra Kelsey-Burge, Call and Response, Dr. Mariya Moojee, Dr. Beatrice Allegranti, Tereza Stehlikova, Adah Parris, Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo and more.
Pride, Prejudice & Perceptions
The British Academy The Waiting Room, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AH Friday Only | 09.00–21:00 Free Accessible
An interactive sensory exploration of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice created by AVM Curiosities & Type Tasting. The typography found in editions of this classic novel gives each a different voice. Taking this as the template, the display will use type, sound, sight and scent to serve one story three ways.
SATURDAY ONLY
BitterSuite: Tapestries
Royal Opera House Bow Street, London WC2E 7AU Saturday Only | 16.45 & 18.45 | £ Accessible
Tapestries is a choreographed sensorial concert that is set to
enhance an ingenious reworking of Janacek’s String Quartet No.1 by composer Fred Thomas and poet Kayo Chingonyi. As one of 30 guests, you will be paired individually with a dancer who will blindfold you and lead you through a concert for the senses, feeding you gourmet tastes by chef Adam Thomason, surrounding you in bespoke scents created by Sarah McCartney and enveloping you in intense movement and touch based choreography by BitterSuite. The score interweaves Janacek’s full work together with original choral spoken poetry and phrases taken from Janacek’s inspiration: The Kreutzer Sonata. Performed live by Phaedra Ensemble.
“Disarming and Wonderful” –Vice
“Music like you’ve never heard before” –I-D Magazine
Law and the Senses
Westminster University Room 152, 309 Regent St, Marylebone, London, W1B 2UW Saturday only | 14.00–16.00 | Free
Explore the unique relationship between law and the senses through a live panel discussion and experimental workshops, where you will be invited to taste and touch your way through the subject. The event marks the launch of Westminster
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Universities’ Law and the Senses programme.
Ushers Syndrome
Moorfields Eye Hospital 162 City Road, London EC1V 2PD Saturday only | 10.00–17.00 Free
Marcus Innis’ debut installation focusing on the rarely explored condition of Ushers Syndrome.
Materials Library Presents
Institute of Making Malet Place, London WC1E 7JE Saturday Only | 14.00–16.00 All events ticketed individually Accessible
A single, two hour session of hands-on materials investigation, introducing a range of bespoke objects, specially designed to explore the sensoaesthetics of materials and ask what the properties of materials mean to us.
We Are Now
Juju’s Bar and Stage 91 Brick Ln, London E4 8AJ Saturday only | 20.00–02.00 | £
We Are Now craft live events that explore the creative use of technologies in the performing arts to produce sensory experiences for audiences. We invite audiences to come and play at a multi- sensory late night party, featuring an evening of digital demos and sensory experiences.
Three Studies of Synaesthesia
Rebecca Hossack Gallery 2A Conway Street, London W1T 6BA Saturday only | 10.00–17.00 | Free
Displaying designer Chang Hee Lee’s project, Three Studies of Synaesthesia, that aims to uncover and investigate different properties of synaesthesia as a design provocation.
Sencity
Islington Assembly Hall Upper St, London N1 2UD Saturday only | 21.00–02.00 | £
Beyond merely listening to live bands, Sencity invites you to hear, taste, feel and even smell the nuances of the music. An aroma jockey, vibrating floors, video artists, dancers and food scientists display their artistry hand-in-hand with the Balkan beats of Gypsy Hill and ska band New Town Kings.
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Open Senses Hub
The Trampery 239 Old St, London EC1V 9EY Sat & Sun | 10:00–17:00 | Free Accessible
At the heart of Open Senses Festival is the Open Senses Hub – your pit stop for all things sensory. Everyone is welcome so come by and take part in a range of engaging workshops, talks and experiences! Sessions include: Vocal embodiment sessions by Deep Throat Choir, Embodiment workshops from Seke Chimutengwende, Psychology sessions from Dr. Clare Jonas, Sexual identity and the senses from Adah Paris and more.
Babel in Bloom
St Augustine’s Tower London E8 1HT Sat & Sun | 10.00–00.00 | Free
Art Catcher Ltd are leading curators of interdisciplinary exhibitions about cultural and emotional belonging. Experience
their new collaboration with London-based artist Katja Rosenberg and Incloodu Festivals which brings together performance and dance artists at St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney’s oldest building.
Crossmodalist Cabaret
Platform Southwark 1 Joan St, London SE1 8BS Fri, Sat & Sun I 16:00–02:00 I £
The Crossmodalist Cabaret: invoking the spirit of Cabaret - bringing together a mix of cross-disciplinary artists and scientists from around the world for one weekend only, for a combination of performance, revelry, and hedonistic surprise. Expect provocation. Expect inspiration. Expect the unexpected.
HtS-Labs: Institute for Sensory Reconnection
The Old Truman Brewery (S2) 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QR Sat & Sun I 10.00–Late £
Take part in a sensory escape game where players are challenged to solve a series of puzzles, each requiring them to use their senses in unusual ways. The game will last 60 minutes per player group.
Movement Alphabet
The Old Truman Brewery (S4) 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QR Sat & Sun | 13:00–14:15, 14.45-16.00, 17.15–18.30 | £
Movement Alphabet invites you on a personal journey of memory and movement to create and keep your Movement Portrait. A one-to-one performance with bespoke software to challenge the disembodied nature of our digital lives.
Firnocene
The Old Truman Brewery (S5) 91 Brick Ln, London E1 6QR Sat & Sun | 12:00–15:00, 17:00–20:00 | £
A participatory art installation that immerses its visitors, one-by-one, in a multisensory
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encounter with water. The fantastical journey and space reflect the element’s many manifestations.
I=U
Rich Mix 35–47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA Shoreditch Church Shoreditch High St, London E1 6JN Sat & Sun | 10.00–01.00 | £ Accessible
Saturday Line Up Sounds from a Sketchpad with Manchester’s Vonnegut Collective, interactive performances led by Cosmo Sheldrake and Roscius. Workshops with Anil Sebastian and London Contemporary Voices and stage presence through Grinberg Method with Spanish actor/director Ivan Andrade
Sunday Line Up Aysedeniz Gökcin, Maria Finkelmeier’s #improvaday, cellist Francesca ter-Berg, violinist/violist Max Baillie and BitterSuite: Tapestries. Workshops with Anil Sebastian, London Contemporary Voices, Kate Smith and Sundra Yoga.
Umweltern
Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House, Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 0BD Sat & Sun | 11:00–13:00, 15:00–17:00 | £ Accessible
BitterSuite & Juri Nishi present a site-specific immersive performance that stimulates a new perception of architecture through the senses. The performance looks at imagined and remembered space, and the lived experience of the space surrounding the audience.
Weekend at the V&A
V&A Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL Sat & Sun | 10:00–18:00 | Free All children need to be accompanied by a parent or carer
We invite children and their families to take part in hands-on making and multi-sensory fun.
Events include:
Peter Rabbit and Friends (Sensory family show) Curious Ceramics Sensory Back-pack The Accessible Film Project Drop-in design workshops
SUNDAY ONLY
Relax with Paintings
National Gallery Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN Sunday only | 1400–16:00 | £
Revolving around Joseph Turner’s painting, Rain Steam and Speed, we invite you to a meditative experience exploring the relationship between scent and sound.
Journey to Interior
Secret Location Sunday only | 14:00–16:00 | £
Please email [email protected] for more details
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FRIDAY Senate House - University of London The Open Senses Symposium
British Academy Pride, Prejudice and Perceptions
Platform Southwark Crossmodalist Cabaret
SATURDAY Institute of Making Materials Library Pres.
Islington Assembly Hall Sencity
Moorfields Eye Hospital Ushers Syndrome
Old Truman Brewery
– Juju’s Bar and Stage We Are Now
– S2 HtS-Labs
– S4 Movement Alphabet
– S5 Firnocene
Platform Southwark Crossmodalist Cabaret
Rebecca Hossack Gallery Three Studies in Synaesthesia
Rich Mix I=U
Royal Academy of Arts Umweltern Umweltern
Royal Opera House BitterSuite: Tapestries
Shoreditch Church I=U
St Augustine’s Tower Babel in Bloom
The Trampery Open Senses Workshops
V&A Events at the V&A
Westminster University Law and the Senses
SUNDAY National Gallery Relax with Paintings
Old Truman Brewery
– S2 HtS-Labs
– S4 Movement Alphabet
– S5 Firnocene
Platform Southwark Crossmodalist Cabaret
Rich Mix I=U
Royal Academy of Arts Umweltern Umweltern
St Augustine’s Tower Babel in Bloom
The Trampery Open Senses Workshops
V&A Events at the V&A
Schedule
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Workshops Late night Exhibition
Immersive Performance Movement Music
Ushers Syndrome
We Are Now
Movement Alphabet
Firnocene
Babel in Bloom
HtS-Labs
V&A Events at the V&A
Crossmodalist Cabaret
Sencity
I=U
Materials Library Pres.
Law and the SensesOxford StreetOxford Street
Tottenham Court RoadTottenham Court Road
Old StreetOld Street
MoorgateMoorgate
King’s CrossKing’s Cross
Leicester SquareLeicester Square
SouthwarkSouthwarkPiccadilly CircusPiccadilly Circus
Goodge StreetGoodge Street
Three Studies in Synaesthesia
Pride, Prejudice and PerceptionsUmweltern
SHOREDITCHCENTRAL LONDON
Relax with Paintings
BitterSuite: Tapestries
Open Senses Busking Spot
Open Senses HubThe Open Senses Symposium
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V&ACromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL
Westminster UniversityRoom 152, 309 Regent St, Marylebone, London W1B 2HW
Royal Academy of ArtsBurlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery28 Charlotte St, Marylebone, London W1T 2NF
Materials LibraryInstitute of Making, Malet Pl, Bloomsbury, London WC2R 2LS
Senate HouseMalet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU
The British Academy10-11 Carlton House Terrace, St. James's, London SW1Y 5AH
The National GalleryTrafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
Royal Opera HouseBow St, London WC2E 9DD
King's Cross StationEuston Road, London N1 9AL
Islington Assembly HallUpper St, London N1 2UD
Platform Southwark1 Joan St, London SE1 8BS
Liverpool Street StationLiverpool St, London EC2M 7QH
Moorfields Eye Hospital162 City Rd, London EC1V 2PD, UK
The Trampery Old Street239 Old St, London EC1V 9EY
St Leonard C Of E ChurchShoreditch High St, London E1 6JN
Rich Mix35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA
Old Truman Brewery (S2, S4, S5)91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QR
Juju's Bar and Stage15 Hanbury St, London E1 6QR
St. Augustine's Tower HackneyLondon E8 1HT
Events Map
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Festival Partners
Venue Partners Institute Of Making Islington Assembly Hall Juju’s Bar And Stage Moorfields Eye Hospital Old Truman Brewery Platform Southwark Rebecca Hossack Gallery Rich Mix London Royal Academy Of Arts Royal Opera House St Augustine’s Tower The Institute Of Philosophy The National Gallery The Royal Academy The Royal Opera House The Trampery V&A Westminster University
Festival Partners Czech Institute Finnish Cultural Institute Hendricks Gin Institute Of Philosophy Kingdom of the Netherlands London & Partners Visit London
AdvisorsAccessibility Kara Jarrold (Sense) Marcus Innis Zara Jayne Arnold
General Daniel Ospina Tania Mendes
Festival Blogger Natasha Blok
Academic Advisors Prof. Barry Smith (Institute Of Philosophy)
Prof. Charles Spence (Oxford University)
Dr. Clare Jonas Dr. Ophelia Deroy (Institute Of Philosophy)
Dr. Rozelle Kane
ContributorsAdah Parris, Adam Thomason, Aimee Parnell, Ajos, Alex Rhys Taylor, Alexis Romano, Ali Webb, Alice Phelps, Aline Keyrouz, Alissa Cooper, Ally Martin, Ana Bernardo, Andrea Pavoni, Andreas Philippopoilos-Mihalopoulos, Andrew Mashigo, Anna Pearce, Annabelle Ducros, Annie Fox, Annika Kappner, Anthony Pujol, Antonia Lee, Ashraf Ejjbair, Assia ghendir, Astrid Hilne, Aude Guaratti, Avni Patel, Beatrice Allegranti, Beau Rhee, Becka Cornell, Becky Lyddon, Bernadette Coote, Beth Harland, Bethany Duckett, Brooke Belldon, Bushra Burge, Camella Agabaly-an, Carole Ayou, Caterina Nirta, Chang Hee Lee, Charles Michel, Chris Lloyd, Christina Bradstreet, Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo, Claire Parkins, Claire Sokell Thompson, Claudia Saldaris, Clem Telsfort, Daisy Scalchi, Dana Segal, Daniel Harrison, Danilo Mandic, Dave and Deb, David Howes, Deb Scott, Deborah Mahs, Debra Gail Wat-son, Diana Oliferova, Edward MacKay, Eileih Muir, Ellen Sampson, Emily Evans, Emma Du Croz, Emma Easton, Emma Purvis, Eric Maltz, Fara Ishaq, Fiona Carlston, Francesca Lando, Frank Creber, Freyja Sewell, Gabriella De Rosa, Gareth Greene, George Petsikopoulos, Georgia Dale, Georgina Warren, Geraldine Atger, Giacomo Garziano, Grace Boyle, Habib Fawaz, Hamish Hall, Hannah Close, Harriet Curnow, Hector Proud, Helen Porter, Hélène Minard, Honor Harger, Iain McGilchrist, Ian Ball, Ian Heywood, Imogen Brodie, Imogen Willets, Imre Bard, Isabel Fernandez, Jaakko Nousiainen, Jai Preece, James McGilchrist, James Wannerton, James Wheale, Jan Lee, Janice Wang, Jay Udo Udoma, Jenna Mason, Jenni Halton, Jennifer Stubley, Jessica Tackett, Jo Barratt, Joanna Bloxham, Joanne Rhymer, Johanna Vakkari, John Fass, Joleine Kipp, Jonathan Chung, Joonas Kallonen, Josef Youssef, Judit Prieto, Juhani Pallasmaa, Juliet Kennedy, Juri Nishi, Kaffe Matthews, Kate Dangerfield, Kate Genevieve, Kate Goodwin, Kate Kelly, Katerina Pantelides, Katherine Hall, Katherine McLean, Katie Collins, Katie Whitcroft, Katja Rosenberg, Laura Haynes, Laura Polesel, Laureline Palmade, Laurence Charter, Lesley-Ann Daly, Lilly Neubauer, Linda Vass, Lindsey Williams, Lisa May Thomas, Luciana Haill, Lucie Watson, Lucy Wright, Luisa Gerstein, Lulu Youssef, Lydia Clark, Lynda Gerry, Marah Wilson, Marie Forbes, Marie Proffit, Mariya Mossajee, Maryann Devally, Matt Lewis, Maxine Hamilton Stubber, Megan Kieran, Michael Bull, Miriam Cantwell, Mónica Kisic, Nadjib Achaibou, Nanako Aramaki, Natalie S Richter, Natasha Clark, Nick Dunn, Nina Atkinson, Nisha Patel, Oliver Carruthers, Oliver Willems, Patrick Adesanya, Pauliina Stahlberg, Phillip Granell, Priya Roy, Priyadharsh-ini Shanthakumar, Rachel Harger, Rachel Jackson, RCA Pathways students, Zoe Laughlin, Rebecca Hossack, Reebs Mancini, Rob Ricketts, Rob Varney, Roma Brown, Roman Rappak, Ronald Moes, Rosalind Freya Claire, Rosy Oddy, Ruben Demonte, Ruby Sehra, Sadie Parsons, Sarah Hyndman, Sarah McCartney, Scott Fisher, Seke Chimutengwende, Sian Green, Sofija Matich, Sophie Humphries, Spike Gascoigne, Stephanie Tyrrell, Steve Cross, Tasha Marks, Tereza Stehlikova, Tim Murray Browne, Tiphanie Lemerle, Tom Price Stephens, Troy Berley, Victoria Stoyanova, William Everitt, William Templeton, Ysanne Spevack, Zoe Laughlin
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