synaesthesia

Synaesthesia
Curated by Winnie Goh and Wei Fen Lee
Saturday 9 – Sunday 17 April 2011
The Substation Gallery
This is an InHouse event

Synaesthesia is a serial experiment that crosses the boundaries between two genres of art: the written word and the image. A collaboration between writers and artists, Synæsthesia is the product of a marriage between form and words that exist beyond the page.

Synæsthesia is recognised as a neurological condition in which sensory and cognitive pathways criss-cross, resulting in individuals that report experiences such as perceiving letters and numbers to be inherently coloured, or hearing sounds in response to visual motion. In art, these multi-sensory experiences are often celebrated as the ongoing discovery of the possibilities of perception.

Read Chris Ong’s interview with the curators Winnie Goh and Wei Fen Lee here