Touching Grass
Presented by Asish Mohapatra & Ming Li
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Coates Community Arts
suite 6 level 4/20 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Touching Grass is an interactive exhibition that invites visitors to explore sonic and sensorial presence, slow down and reconnect with their bodies and the world around them.
The exhibition features three to four distinct sensory and sonic experiences, each designed to evoke a different emotional resonance and offer alternate pathways to grounding the self.
Touching Grass is grounded in the idea that music perception and presence are inherently multisensory. In daily life we often forget to slow down and engage fully with experiences, skimming only the surface of what surrounds us. This installation inverts that passive relationship. Visitors are invited to interact directly with physical textures and shape sound through their own touch and movements, turning the audience into the performer.
In a time when our interactions with nature are increasingly mediated through screens, Touching Grass reimagines technology as a tool for sensory restoration rather than distraction. By merging organic materials with digital systems, the exhibition asks how we might design technologies that deepen our connection with the living world rather than distance us from it.
Participants
Asish Mohapatra
Asish Mohapatra is a multidisciplinary designer and artist with a deep interest in the intersection between community-building and climate resilience. Their praxis utilises sound production, garment and textile design, mixed media and visual arts to introduce new ideas on how we might tackle problems of the twenty-first century.
Ming Li
Ming Li is a Melbourne/Naarm-based Chinese sound artist and producer whose work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, music and interactive technology. Exploring visual, auditory and interactive art that resonate on a deeper level.