COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES

Man is a homo hapticus. The sense of touch is the first of our senses. Even before we hear, smell and taste, we feel, we sense touch. EpicDermis is a border crossing, a dance over the skin. The skin is man’s largest organ – and at the same time his sensitive frontier between self and world. Every touch is as much a sign of tenderness as it is an indication of potential danger. Every touch tells a story about the known, about the unknown, tells a story in which the I seeks its place in the world. Every touch spells out a haptic vocabulary, full of power and longing, of hurt and care. The “touchless society” (Elisabeth von Thadden) is entangled in a paradox: The longing for independence and disconnectedness reflected in increasing singularization turns into contactless isolation – the untouched human being as an isolated monad of a hypersensitive society. EpicDermis also tells against this terrifying image, tells of the pleasurable opening up of the world, tells of the survival necessity