Peculiar Intimacies

Eluding eye focus

New mirrors

Embodied Reflections

•Entering in others’ private spaces •Disembodied contacts •Enfolding surrogate mirrors •Confounding nonverbal communications •A new phenomenology of perception

•Elusive enfolding glaces (Merleau Ponty) •Deceiving clear cameras (Barthes) •No odours, perfumes, volumes (Susskind)

•Glancing ourselves in mirrors during conversations •Amplifying all the nuances of voices over phone distortions and squelching vocals •echoes, distortions, on sound •blurring and freezing, on videos

•New fascinating and slightly disturbing forms of social life. •Bringing to reality fragments of worlds dreamt by Matisse, Escher •To be travelled with the wisdom and knowledge of Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, Barthes, Varela