Displace 2.0 is a performative sensory environment which took place in the building of the recently dissolved platform TAG in the Hague for the 2012 TodaysArt festival. Displace 2.0 puts sensory experience in the foreground. Groups of visitors progress through the three floors of the space, encountering a series of environments and experience sensory actions that intermingle the senses of smell, taste, sight, sound and touch. At first, these sensory modalities are separated from each other, but grow over time to cause intense, almost hallucinatory sensations merging to a point of pure saturation.

Displace 2.0 is the second iteration of works conducted within the context of a larger research project entitled “Mediations of Sensation” developed by Chris Salter and anthropologist David Howes.  The aim of  “Mediations” is to create a space where contemporary art practice can be informed by advanced research in sensory anthropology and history, and vice-versa. Sensory anthropology is dedicated to exploring how the senses are distinguished, ranked, mixed, deployed and enjoyed in different cultures. Displace 2.0 mirrors this anthropological experience by offering an embodied, technologically augmented series of environments designed to open a crack in the conventional Western sensorium and transport the visitor into a parallel sensory world.