I searched how the scientists made sensory deprivation happen, but how did the artists approach that or do we experience it somehow in our regular lives? How can those senses or senselessness be translated to something visual or experiential?    

  What I aim is to create a space where I can transfer my personal experiences visually or transfer them experientially which I find a lot more difficult since it would not be personal anymore. 

Led by some keywords such as: deprivation; absence or too little of something important, somesthesia; sensation of the presence of the person, isolation; the fact that something is separate and not connected to other things, I will try and visualise.

    

So during my research I came across to some of the artworks that aimed to make the participants experience deprivation. For instance, Jillian Mayer created an interactive underwater virtual reality guided meditation experience, asking participants  for simultaneous engagement and disembodiment: they will don blacked-out goggles and a snorkel, and then, with a help of a noodle float, submerge themselves up to their ears in the pool and listen to a 16 minute audio composition could only be heard underwater. It is a deconstructed collage of poetry, memes and meditation tropes that proposed surreal and fabricated environments.

  Artists Lundahl & Seitl cut off participants' senses while guiding them through art museums. Symphony of a Missing Room is  a visual art experiment where participants are subject to blindfolding (and other forms of disorientation) before being taken around art galleries, museums, and other spaces as a series of performance pieces happen in front of them.

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