Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia
Thresholds of Empathy with Art
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 September 2017
- ISBN 9780198769286
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 259x184x23 mm
- Weight 956 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
People with mirror-touch synaesthesia feel a physical sense of touch on their own bodies when they witness touch to other people and often to objects. This book brings together essays and conversations by prominent neuroscientists, anthropologists, artists, art theorists, curators, film theorists, and philosophers, to explore this phenomenon.
MoreLong description:
The neurological condition synaesthesia (the mixing of the senses) has for over a century provoked thought about new ways of artistic seeing.
In 'Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia: Thresholds of Empathy with Art', a recently discovered manifestation provides a lens through which to re-examine contemporary art experience. People with mirror-touch synaesthesia feel a physical sense of touch on their own bodies when they witness touch to other people and often to objects. The condition is a rare yet recognizable form of heightened physical empathy: present in just 1 in 75 people, it is associated with an overactivation of the near-universal mirror (neuron) system. Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia places mirror-touch, a social synaesthesia, at the center of dialogue between neuroscience, the humanities, and contemporary art theory and practice in order to explore, for the first time, its powerful potential as a model for the embodied and relational spectatorship of art.
Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia brings together essays and conversations by prominent neuroscientists, anthropologists, artists, art theorists, curators, film theorists, and philosophers, as well as mirror-touch synaesthetes, and through proximity, and cross-disciplinary dialogue, dissolves barriers not only between disciplines but between theory and experience. Essays and conversations find common ground not only in quantitative but also qualitative accounts of mirror-touch; the editor has conducted the first set of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with mirror-touch synaesthetes, which is available in excerpted form in the volume's appendix. This collection of thirteen conversations constitutes a performative project at the boundary between art and science that invites contributors to reconceptualize the ways that artworks invite us into relational, co-constitutional forms of spectatorship. Critically refiguring arguments about the 'social turn' in contemporary art that reject the traditional viewer as passive, Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia expands the possibilities of what art we might call 'participatory', and enriches debates around the social agency of perception. In these essays, the blurred thresholds in mirror-touch between sight and touch, and between self and other, are redrawn for an interdisciplinary readership as newly sensitized boundaries between image and action, art and life.
Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia, in bringing together leading neuroscientists, artists, philosophers and experiencing synaesthetes, is of equal importance to the fields of science and the humanities, shedding new light on in-feeling (empathy) and its vital relevance to contemporary life and culture. The book reminds us of how, even in our period, which is characterised by accelerated scientific discoveries, cross-disciplinary exchange and the contribution of artworking and philosophy to science and its methods, in this case to neuroaesthetics, is increasingly crucial and far-reaching, leading to implications for future research in terms of social, cultural, and ethical critique.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Introduction
Feeling In
In Conversation
The Vicarious Perception of Touch and Pain: Embodied Empathy
Orchestration of the Senses in Yellow: Eisenstein's Fourth Dimension, Memory and Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia
Ocular Objecthood in India and Beyond
Surface Encounters: Materiality and Empathy
Expanded Embodiment
In Conversation
Becoming Others
I Feel Like An Abstract Line
Synergy and Synaesthesia
The Art of the Relational Body: From Mirror-Touch to the Virtual Body
Intimate Otherness
In Conversation
Four or Five Jaws
Trance Notebook
2 [nerdy questions about exact pitch]
Prp4AShw
Double Sensation
In Conversation
Fieldwork's Double. When images and people meet at the margins
Empathy's Ghosts
Double consciousness / Double shooting
In Conversation
Mirror-Touch Reader
Mirror-Touch Reader
Glossary
Index
