SALT – The Institute of Sensual Awareness, Language and Touch is a multidisciplinary research vessel for collaborative practice centering empathic attunement hrough commitment to 'sympoeisis' (making with). Founded by Tara Dougans in 2020 and joined by artist poet Rachel Crummey in 2022, SALT'S research modalities are motivated by a curiosity towards non-linear forms of knowing and the emergent possibilities that lie at the intersection of creative and contemplative arts. we, a field, a web, a song

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Tara Dougans is a Tiohtià:ke / Montreal-based artist whose sculpture and field coherence work explores silent-level sensing through touch. Exploring the relationship between body awareness, contemplative quieting and the animacy of making with, their work attends to haptic and aural explorations of complexity observed, and tuned into, through practices of listening.

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Rachel Crummey is a Toronto / Tkarón:to based artist, writer, and educator of settler descent. With a background in poetry, abstract painting, and contemplative practice, she is currently learning from non-linear intelligences through collaboration with fungi and the microbial realm. In the compost heap of the present, we transform into our future selves.

✉ info@s-salt.org

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what sounds wonderful ?

exploring the relationship between rituals of pause and attunement, and the cultivation of interior capacity for sensory awareness, complexity and emergence

senses and nature (sensing nature // nature sensing) are approached as interchangeable and engaged as unfolding, interdependent systems of complexity
observed, and tuned into, through practices of listening.

forms or threads are understood as mycelial ~ symbiotic, synergistic, pluralistic, mutualistic;
matter as matrices within which objects emerge as polyphony

Fruiting from a larger continuum, cross-pollination creates unexpected opportunities for compost and convergence.

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(( that which goes on expanding ~~~~~~ ))

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