Daria Martin, artist, has researched mirror-touch synaesthesia since 2008 and made it the centre of three films: Sensorium Tests (2012), At the Threshold (2014-2015), and Theatre of the Tender (2016). Martin's films, which have been exhibited around the world, aim to create a continuity between disparate artistic media (such as painting and performance), between people and objects, and between internal and social worlds. Solo exhibitions include ACCA, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kunstalle Zürich; and Tate Britain. Martin is currently Professor and Head of Artistic Research at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. : In 2018 she won the Film London Jarman Award for "creating an eclectic and expansive body of work that has explored everything from dreams and mythology to technology and feminism".

• Introduction


• 1: Daria Martin: Introduction


• Feeling In


• 2: Vittorio Gallese and Carolee Schneemann: In Conversation


• 3: Jamie Ward: The Vicarious Perception of Touch and Pain: Embodied Empathy


• 4: Patricia Pisters: Orchestration of the Senses in Yellow: Eisenstein's Fourth Dimension, Memory and Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia


• 5: Christopher Pinney: Ocular Objecthood in India and Beyond


• 6: Giuliana Bruno: Surface Encounters: Materiality and Empathy


• Expanded Embodiment


• 7: Michael Banissy and Elinor Cleghorn: In Conversation


• 8: Siri Hustvedt: Becoming Others


• 9: Laura Marks: I Feel Like An Abstract Line


• 10: Anthony Chemero: Synergy and Synaesthesia


• 11: Brian Massumi: The Art of the Relational Body: From Mirror-Touch to the Virtual Body


• Intimate Otherness


• 12: Thomas J. Csordas and Trisha Donnelly: In Conversation


• 13: Fiona Torrance: Four or Five Jaws


• 14: Wayne Koestenbaum: Trance Notebook #2 [nerdy questions about exact pitch]


• 15: Mark Leckey: Prp4AShw


• Double Sensation


• 16: Catherine Wood and Sha Xin Wei: In Conversation


• 17: Massimiliano Mollona: Fieldwork's Double. When images and people meet at the margins


• 18: Daria Martin: Empathy's Ghosts


• 19: Rabih Mroué: Double consciousness / Double shooting


• 20: Judith Hopf and Joel Salinas: In Conversation


• Mirror-Touch Reader


• 21: Daria Martin: Mirror-Touch Reader


• Glossary


• Index