You shed daily, particle by particle.
He moved to another land.
I feel you under my skin.
She is sniffing your microbiome perfume.
All our ancestors had dark skin.
A permeable border.
Skin Territories explores the largest human organ as a living territory of memory, affect, identity and negotiation. Seen as border, archive and symbolic surface, it reflects social, racial, aesthetic and personal tensions.
The project unfolds through research with the National Institute of Materials Physics, Mindlifeline – International Neuroscience Research Association and Minitremu Unlearning Space, including four public talks on migration and race, gender identity, skin biochemistry and sensory processes.
Taking shape as a contemporary art exhibition at Atelierele Scânteia, curated by Marian Palie, the project concludes with artistic perspectives on this human territory, placing skin within a network of artistic, social and ecological meanings.
This online encounter will be about constant growth and shedding — just like skin.
We’ll upload, at times, new inspiring resources or articles, and shed the oldest, the non-performative ones. Just as skin does.
Some political moles will witness the future or fade into last year’s news; some pores will let in fresh informational air.
The online membrane may host your contributions, too — feel free to join our cultural venture.
In this hybrid habitat, skin becomes a thinking surface — storing signals, leaking meanings, absorbing the frictions of a world in flux. This platform unfolds as a sensorial commons, shaped by the traces we leave on it.
Stay hydrated and critically aware.
Skin Territories Project | Team
Organized by: Arcadia Living srl
Project Coordinator/Concept: Ami Lungu
Project Manager: Emilian Mărgărit
Exhibition Curator: Marian Pălie
Artists: Vlad Albu | Andrei Arion | Matei Băcanu | Diana Gheorghiu | Adelina Ivan | Albert Kaan | Ami Lungu | Emilian Pospaii | Sillyconductor
Graphic Design/Website: Vlad Albu
Photo/Video Documentation: Petre Fall
Artworks Photography: Cătălin Georgescu
Article Contributors: Zina Russanova | Ami Lungu & Andreea Bodea | Bogdan Bălan
Exhibition Assistant: Roxana Morar
Partners: National Institute for Materials Physics, MindLifeline, Minitremu, Atelierele Scânteia, Ototo, Kraft Made, Image and Sound.
Media Partners: Zeppelin Magazine, ISCOADA, Scena9, Radio România Cultural, Teletext.
Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project’s content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
