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Touching a Sensibility: A Photographic Exploration of Haptic Experience

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2008

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Redmond, Monique
Boberg, Ingrid

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Thesis

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Master of Arts in Art and Design

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Auckland University of Technology

Abstract

Touching a sensibility will attempt to locate the exchange when the living body physically touches the world. Exploration into the emotive response that the lived body creates as it moves through the world, both as a passive receptor and as an active initiator, will be explored where a relationship between the touched and the toucher is formed. This project will use photographic processes in an attempt to facilitate the viewer to engage in the work with their own personal sensibility. The emotional tension created, within an individual when their desire to physically touch something in the world is forbidden, impossible or illicit, will be investigated. This tension manifests itself in the form of apprehension, vulnerability, anticipation, romanticism and the sensibility of possible unpredicted connection. Photographic portrayal will be used to articulate this research and bring into fruition ideas which sit around the haptic.

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Apprehension, Vulnerability, Anticipation, Romanticism, Photograph

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https://hdl.handle.net/10292/193

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