Experiential tours of the exhibition “SENSATIONS”

On 25 April, 23 May, 6 June and 20 June at 15.00, and on 21 June at 15.00, experiential tours of the exhibition “SENSATIONS”, led by the exhibition’s author Gretė Labanauskaitė, will take place at the Exhibition Hall of the Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KCCC), Didžioji Vandens g. 2.

What happens to fashion when it is no longer looked at? When the eye loses its privilege and the body assumes the right to perceive?

Sensations is a space in which fashion refuses to remain an image. In this exhibition, the garment is not a finished object. It is not “shown.” It is not “displayed.” Instead, it questions the hegemony of vision and proposes an experience that begins in the viewer’s body — through movement, touch, breathing, through the act of relating.

Sensations brings together the experiences of sighted and blind participants not to equalise them, but to allow them to overlap. What appears as an image to one may unfold as texture to another. Form can become sound. Silence can become surface. Scent can become memory. The senses are not hierarchised, but interwoven into a multilayered experience in which perception occurs not at a distance, but through proximity.

The exhibition is complemented by experiential tours in darkness, during which visitors explore the objects in complete darkness, guided only by touch, hearing, smell and a white cane. It is an invitation to experience fashion through the senses and, for a while, to perceive the world differently.

The tours are led by the exhibition’s author, Gretė Labanauskaitė

Venue: KCCC Exhibition Hall (1st floor). Address: Didžioji Vandens g. 2, Klaipėda.

Duration: 45 min.

Dates:

25 April at 12.00 and 15.00 (Saturday)

23 May at 12.00 and 15.00 (Saturday)

6 June at 12.00 and 15.00 (Saturday)

20 June at 15.00 (Saturday)

21 June at 15.00 (Sunday)

The number of places is limited — registration is required: register here or by e-mail at info@labastudio.com. A visitor’s ticket must be purchased at the Exhibition Hall box office in order to take part in the tour.

If you have any further questions, please get in touch: info@labastudio.com

Please note that participants may appear in photographs and video recordings of the event published in various media. More information: www.kkkc.lt