Touching Time

This is a cooperative project with Feifan Lou from the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. This project aims at creating a shared space for visitors to physically interact with artworks collaboratively made with inspirations of historical objects collected from Silk Roads themed museum collections.

By enabling the audience to touch and arrange the 'artifacts' freely, this project explores how the visitors could build emotional connections with the histories and the artwork makers through touching. It also aims to challenge the dominance of singular vision in the human senses and bring diverse sensual experiences to the audience. Furthermore, by recreating miniature objects that hold significance in both ancient and contemporary life and demonstrating the process of making, the project offers fresh perspectives for understanding historical craftsmanship and artistic traditions through 'Time', highlighting the hybridity of past and present in meaningful ways.

The outcomes are shown in the Nexus of Scattered Echoes, a participatory research project exhibition, at Downing College, University of Cambridge.