Touch Lab reimagines the Grey Street Gallery as an active, participatory art research space, a social space for the artist and audience to interact and collaborate in making embodied, multi-sensory works. Through a series of experimental objects, propositions and materials, Michelle Vine explores how touchable installations can affect participants; she investigates what feelings and body sensations can be aroused by touchable art made to give skin something to think about.
Vine will be working in the space for the majority of the show’s opening hours, hosting a combination of drop-in and scheduled touch events.
With a focus on revealing process, rather than resolution, the participatory works will be constantly evolving across the exhibition period, culminating in a closing event.
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Michelle Vine is a contemporary artist from Sydney, now living and working in Brisbane. Through her practice she aims to get under the skin of things, to question and experience the machinations of producing sensation and knowledge. In recent years her focus was on the site of knowledge formation in biological science (with residencies, grants and research trips across outback Queensland and museums in Germany). Her recent work has seen her return to earlier concerns of embodiment, feminist presence and performative expression, now further explored through affect theory and sensory studies, with an emphasis on interactive touch. Michelle’s work has appeared in House Conspiracy, POP Gallery, Queensland Museum, World Science Festival, The Walls ARI Miami, and Kunsthochschule Kassel Germany.
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Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, 24 September – Saturday, 5 October
Closing Event: Thursday, 3 October, 6pm – 8pm
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am to 4pm
Where: Grey Street Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101
