Proximity Music: Visceral Acts is an exhibition inviting us to engage playfully with mind and body. Presenting a diverse range of works emerging from the backdrop of a health crisis, it brings into question ideas of health and sanity. Through the lens of personal, creative if not unorthodox approaches, artists help us trace paths backwards and forwards in time, connecting with different forms of knowledge. When old habits become inadequate to deal with an era of instability, what can we learn from the creative practices of artists, which can aid us in the search for a new equilibrium?

Featuring: Aernoudt Jacobs, Amos Peled, Dominique ‘t Jolle & Maria Komarova, Karel van Laere, Matteo Marangoni & Dieter Vandoren, Naama Tsabar, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Vica Pacheco, Vivian Caccuri & Thiago Lanis and more to be announced.

In Proximity Music: Visceral Acts, artists play with materials, technologies and rituals associated with health and healing. While advancements in the medical world have made it possible to cure better than ever, its treatments have become increasingly scary to us. At the same time, as medical science progresses, ancient knowledge and practices are lost. As a result, we have become either fearful or disconnected from the process of healing itself. The therapeutic use of art and music goes back millennia, with many practices still lively as alternative medicine. Rather than having the ambition to cure, this exhibition reflects on our relation to health and the power of art, music and ritual to transform our consciousness. It presents works by artists who share their own creative perspectives, taking visitors on a journey connecting modern medical practices with traditional rituals, and joining them to propose completely imaginary new scenarios.