and we hug without touching

For Franziska Bax, the daunting presence of global warming reveals that seeking refuge in separability is a false promise. Her research into the conceptual divisions between, for instance ‘human’ and ‘nature’, and the heavy implications that such hierarchical orderings drag on, led her to seek out a way of sensing — rather than sense-making — that complicates divisions. Sound presented itself as a medium to amplify relations over separations. Using a custom developed MIDI controller, sounds were modulated according to how specific spaces resonate with the body. The resulting soundscape is the search for a momentary becoming together of bodies and surroundings, where skins are no longer felt as boundaries.