Common Senses
With Lo Moran
Multisensory experience is how humans have always made meaning together; through food, ritual, gathering, everyday life. Capitalism strips this from daily life and sells it back as branded "immersive experience," while screens flatten and manipulate our senses. Who gets to experience the world richly and safely is shaped by culture, class, and ability. This workshop treats embodied, multisensory experimentation as an art practice and a way to build care, community, and sensory commons. Session 1: Translation & Synesthesia: Cross-sensory experiments, a drawing whose marks become live soundscape through a contact mic, touch turned to image or audio, scent and taste as material for memory and storytelling. Low-stakes play in sensory laboratories. Session 2: Emotion, Memory & the Politics of the Senses: How the senses carry emotion, narrative, and meaning; how "experience" is commodified and digitally manipulated; how access is shaped by intersectional (in)accessibility. We explore sensory minimalism and maximalism around trauma, catharsis, and mobilization. Grounded in disability justice, "access intimacy" (Mia Mingus) and the "messy access" methods from SOMA Archives https://soma-archives.net/soma-intro.html. Session 3: Building a Shared Sensory World: Together or in small groups, we compose multisensory installations others can enter, for the final 90mil exhibition.
- Dates
- Mon 26 Oct, Mon 2 Nov, Mon 9 Nov, Mon 16 Nov
- Time
- 18:00–21:00
- Cost
- €60-150 full course €30-50 drop in (+ €5 membership fee for new members)
- Attendance type
- You should attend the full course
- You can drop in to any day
- You can attend the whole course
- Class type
- Creative Practice, Community, Storytelling
- Space
- Theatre
- Desired audience
- Anyone curious about expanding how they make and experience art; visual artists wanting to work beyond images, sound and performance people wanting to experiment with materials, social-practice interested people, and "beginners". Especially welcome to disabled, neurodivergent, and sensory-sensitive people, for whom these questions are often based in lived experience rather than theoretical.
- What should I bring?
- No prior knowledge or art experience needed, open to all levels. A willingness to experiment is appreciated. Optionally, bring an object, sound, or scent that holds meaning for you. Materials will be provided; bring your own favorites if you have them, plus a phone, sound making or recording device if you'd like. Please tell me in advance about any allergies, sensory sensitivities, or access needs so we can build as accessible as space as possible within our limitations.
About the artist
Lo Moran creates interdisciplinary projects that are often socially engaged, participatory and collaborative. They aim to experiment with and question the systems we are embedded in by organizing situations of connection, openness and nonhierarchical learning. They are working towards accessibility and reimagined ways of being together by investigating community support and belonging through social forms, performance, printmaking and illustration, educational work and developing archival methodologies. Lo has also been involved in creative projects within disability art communities for the last 13 years and has performed internationally with experimental sound since 2015. They intentionally embrace fluidity and chaos to contribute to emergent futures and radical approaches.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_lo_and_behold_/https://lomoran.com/
Accessibility
One solidarity spot is available for this course at no cost. Please write to 90milartschool@gmail.com to book. 90mil is wheelchair accessible. Please see the yellow section below for more on accessibility.
Sliding scale
We use a sliding scale to make courses as affordable as possible. Here’s how to use it: Lower end: You don’t have a stable income. Mid range: You have a less stable financial situation and are more selective about where you spend your money. Higher end: You experience relative financial stability. Solidarity spot: You’re experiencing financial precarity and wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford to come to a workshop.