{"id":4229,"date":"2024-04-05T13:29:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/?post_type=exhibition&p=4229"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:32:10","slug":"weird-sensation-feels-good-an-exhibition-about-asmr","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/en\/exhibitions\/weird-sensation-feels-good-an-exhibition-about-asmr\/","title":{"rendered":"WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: An Exhibition About ASMR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ASMR is a term that describes a physical sensation: euphoria or deep calm, sometimes a tingling in the body. In recent years an online audience of millions has grown, dedicated to watching the work of designers and content creators who try to trigger this feeling in their viewers. They do it by whispering or eating, touching or tapping, and more besides. This exhibition is the first dedicated to this feeling, and the emerging field of creativity that has grown up around it.<\/p>\n

As little as a decade ago, ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) was largely dismissed as a figment of the imagination. Today the term represents one of the largest movements on the Internet, and it has become impossible to ignore. As academic institutions around the world seek to make sense of the phenomenon, creatives—known as “ASMRtists”—are building on a cultural movement that transcends language and culture in favour of bodily ‘feels’.<\/p>\n

Like meditation or yoga, ASMR happens to both your body and to your mind. It is not about speed, but about focus and slowness. ASMRtists1<\/a><\/span> do not seek to entertain but to relax; for experiencers, it offers a degree of insulation from a noisy, wandering world. Through sound and film, shared through broadcasting platforms such as YouTube, works of ASMR make room for close-looking, close-listening, and close-feeling<\/em>.<\/p>\n

ASMR injects the Internet with softness, kindness and empathy. As a form of digital intimacy2<\/a><\/span>, it offers comfort on demand, standing against the feeling of isolation that constant connectivity can deceptively breed. Anecdotally, ASMR is being used as a form of self-medication against the effects of loneliness, insomnia, stress, and anxiety. This is a cue to its success, and to its transcendental appeal3<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD<\/em> is the first exhibition of its kind to lift ASMR out from your screen and into public space. Step into an acoustically tuned environment and understand how people are deploying new and existing tools and materials to negotiate a complex world.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n <\/div>\n