The five traditional senses are culturally divided into major senses (sight and hearing) and minor senses (taste, smell and touch). Throughout the history of art works that use stimuli for the minor senses are almost non-existent until the twentieth century. In this open talk we will reflect on the possible meanings of this fact within the framework of Western culture. We will talk about the connections between the sound and the rest of the senses in art and experiment with different multisensory stimuli.

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With a particular interest in the lower senses (smell, taste and touch), not only on their aesthetic potential, but also on their implication in politics, gender and perception, Yolanda´s work is an amalgam of elements from sound art, visual arts, inspiration from science and techniques from new media-art. It materialises in installations and performances for multi sensory immersive experiences, that have been presented at festivals like Sonic Acts (NL), WRO Media-Art Biennale (PL), Kontraste (AU), STRP (NL), SPARK (USA), Todays Art (NL), Oddstream (NL), Transmediale (GR) etc. She is a core member of the iii collective, an artist-run platform supporting radical interdisciplinary practices engaging with image, sound, space and the body. [www.instrumentinventors.org]