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SENSORY SITE

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Photos by Morgan Evans.

 

 

Sensory Site is a permanent installation at The Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta, GA, USA.

 

In Sensory Site, delicate hair strands are given a monumental presence. Ten identical silver strands, each rising 9 feet from the ground, form a precise grid. Their metallic sheen suggests both the organic and the artificial - like traces of aging, yet eerily synthetic, as if belonging to a body beyond the human. Set against a desaturated gravel landscape, they seem to exist in an in-between space: neither fully biological nor fully machine, neither past nor future, but something liminal.

 

The installation explores the body’s largest sensory organ - the skin - as our primary interface with the world. Through touch, we experience the physicality of existence. Yet in an increasingly digital era, our engagement with the world is mediated through screens, reducing physical contact to mere fingertips. What happens when the body’s largest organ is left unstimulated? What becomes of our sensory experience in a post-biological future?

 

By enlarging hair to architectural proportions, Sensory Site transforms the earth itself into a living, feeling surface—an extension of human sensation into the landscape. Walking through the installation, the viewer is momentarily made small, like an insect traversing the skin of a larger organism. This shift in scale reminds us of our fragility within vast systems - both biological and technological.

 

Sensory Site is a meditation on the evolving relationship between the human body and its environment. It is both a call to reconnect with our sensory capacities and a glimpse into a world where sensing, and perhaps even being, takes on new, unfamiliar forms.

Marie Munk is an interdisciplinary artist, working with sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She is concerned with how technological innovation, where info-tech, biotech, and the commercial world interfere, both characterize and dominate our environment, our behavior, and our bodies. Munk is driven by creating alternative realities that balance the playful, imaginative, and adorable with the eerie, disgusting, and horrifying. With equal parts of sci-fi and humor, Munk comments on a familiar present and uncertain future. She diagnoses, with an uncanny visual language, our society through our relationship to our body. Using silicone as a metaphor for the bodily, Munk creates bizarre hypothetical scenarios, which questions current tendencies in society. ​

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