Designed for the Berliner Festspiele’s Immersion program at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, this participatory immersive installation by artists Chris Salter and TeZ, plunges visitors into a unique experience that blurs the senses of touch, vision and hearing. Haptic Field merges contemporary fashion, cutting edge wearable technologies and an exploration of the senses beyond site. Visitors wear suits especially designed and produced by the Chinese international fashion brand JNBY that are covered with sensors and vibrating actuators as well as a translucent visor which almost obscures vision entirely. The audience then enters a continually shifting, hallucinatory, almost dream-like environment where nothing is what it seems. Vulnerable and blind, visitors are guided only by strange patterns of vibration travelling up and down the suit, and vague, shifting glimmers of light and darkness in the surrounding installation. As one loses sight of stable spatialization, one wonders whether this is what life was like before the mirror stage — a smelting pot of sensory signals into which one’s usual sense of visuality dissolves. As the haptic potentials of augmented reality and tangible media leave science fiction for the consumer market, touch — whether natural or virtual in origin —  finds itself in newly unchartered sensorial territories. Haptic Field sets the stage for experiential insights into one of our most under-explored senses – that of touch and creates a singular and uncanny physical experience of our senses stretching beyond the body’s boundaries.