[Commlist] TouchScreen @ CCA

*TouchScreen @ Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow*

*Friday 20^th and Saturday 21^st May 2022.*

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Through a programme of exhibitions, screenings, artist talks, and 
workshops, *TouchScreen* explores and questions sense perception as our 
common ground for experiencing the world. By challenging the conventions 
of image making, we aim also to challenge sense making in its broadest 
cultural, philosophical and technological terms.

Drawing on innovative research underway at the University of Glasgow 
which brings together Arts and Quantum Technologies researchers with 
partners at Deafblind Scotland and Deafblind UK, *TouchScreen* asks: can 
our different experiences of touch and perception reshape audio-visual 
art practices? And, more broadly, what does this mean for how we connect 
with one another?

*FULL PROGRAMME*

*TouchScreen: Exhibition *

11:00 - 18:00, 18 - 21 May | CCA Creative Lab (Free, Unticketed)

Featuring works by Wolfgang Weileder and The Otolith Group, this 
exhibition plays with the interaction of time, space, and audio-visual 
practices, encouraging us to question our understanding – and 
acknowledge the complexities – of the environments we all navigate, be 
they built, natural or internal. Works-in-progress will also be featured 
by artists, researchers and participants of the University of Glasgow’s 
ongoing research project 'Touch Post-Covid19.' 
<https://touch-post-covid.gla.ac.uk/>

*The Unfathomability of it All with Andrew Kötting | Talk with Screenings*

17:30 - 20:00, Friday 20 May | CCA Cinema

An exploratory talk from the celebrated artist Andrew Kötting 
<http://www.andrewkotting.com/> which draws on over 20 years of artistic 
collaboration with his daughter, Eden, who was born with a rare 
neurological disorder, Joubert Syndrome. Illustrated by screenings from 
throughout their collaboration - including /Mapping Perception/, /This 
Our Still Life/, and /Diseased & Disorderly/ - Kötting will examine what 
their shared artistic process has revealed about the nature of perception.

*Against the Skin: Screening *

13:00 – 14:15, Saturday 21 May | CCA Theatre

An assemblage of short films which explore d/Deafness and blindness 
through various modes of social and historical perspectives. Different 
film techniques, perspectives, and narratives question how different 
sensory abilities are perceived, the nature of accessibility, and what 
it means to ‘fix’ another body.

*Touch and the Perception of Sensory Loss: Workshop *

15:30 – 17:30, Saturday 21 May | CCA Clubroom

What can sensory loss tell us about how we perceive ourselves and the 
world around us? How can the interaction between art and technology help 
us see differently? Join Deafblind Scotland’s Participation and Training 
Officer, John Whitfield, for an interactive workshop informed by the 
perceptive experiences and capacities of Scotland’s deafblind community.

*Touching Codes: Screening *

18:30 – 20:30, Saturday 21 May | CCA Cinema

How has technology altered our perception and sensory encounters of the 
world? From camera lenses to hand painted animation techniques, these 
experimental films obscure perception and provoke a state of memory and 
dream. It is an enquiry on how digital codes can touch our imagination.

*TouchScreen is co-hosted by the School of Culture & Creative Arts at 
the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the School of Physics & 
Astronomy, Deafblind Scotland, LUX Scotland and the Centre for 
Contemporary Arts. The programme is informed by the **‘Touch Post-Covid 
19’* <https://touch-post-covid.gla.ac.uk/>* research project, funded by 
the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of UKRI’s Covid-19 
funding.*

Curated by Azadeh Emadi and David Upton, with support from Charlotte Little.

Register for tickets 
here:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/touchscreen-rethinking-perception-through-sight-and-skin-tickets-293052326397 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/touchscreen-rethinking-perception-through-sight-and-skin-tickets-293052326397>

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