Uma questão de tacto: das morfologias do toque à poética da intercorporalidade

• Autor(a) principal: Pires, Susana Maria Coelho
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/45933
• topic: Pires, Susana Maria Coelho, 1980-; Percepção; Toque - Na arte; Tacto; Contacto; Ligação; Sinestesia; Intercorporalidade; Corpo; Pintura; Têxtil; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Artes

Rooted in my artistic practice, this research deepens the relationship and the differences between touch and contact. It overlays two fields of inquiry: on the one hand, the role of touch in the context of interpersonal relationships; on the other hand, the conjectures that condition or promote the sense of touch in the aesthetic of reception. Touching implies being touched. The connection enabled by the sense of touch is ontologically inscribed in duality: the effective touch that recognizes the integrity of matter; and the metaphorical touch, whose radius of action exceeds the physical dimension of the organism through the deepening of the concepts of sensation, strength, and affection. The physical touch denotes an immediate, functional action, capable of pushing the allowed limits. The injunction (do not touch!) operates as an imposition by ensuring that the integrity of the body (and/or objects) is maintained through distance. Likewise, the act of touching can also be regarded as a way of seeing, a perception with no representation. Furthermore, to recognise the intelligibility of the skin does not imply physical contact. The question thus arises: In the art field, what are the senses (direction, meaning) of touch? In this context, a double correspondence is established between the interpretation of the verb touch (both on the perceptive component and the affective component) and the expansion of the notion of aesthetic touch (from visual contemplation to multisensory immersion), linked to a reading on the constraints and potential that are particular to the literal touch. A matter of tact refers to an idea that adapts the contact (togetherness), between a body and the sensitivity of the other, between an individual and another, between the artwork and body, matter and reflection, and the events where touch actively becomes contact.