My Body Is Wherever It Has Something To Do invites multi-sensory encounters with art. Sound, touch, smell, taste, and sight become guiding forces in both the experience of the works and their spatial arrangement. The exhibition asks: How does the body meet art? Which senses are awakened in the encounter?
The exhibition title is a quote from French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and serves as an ode to theories of perception that emphasize bodily engagement as foundations for existence. The body exists when it is activated; therefore, our experience in the world is shaped by sensory encounters. My Body Is Wherever It Has Something To Do urges us to reconnect with our senses and, through them, form our understanding of “self” within the exhibition.
Interactive artworks are present throughout, inviting engagement and shared experiences that draw the body and its senses into meaning-making.
