Name: Invisible Touch
Location: Wellcome Collection

Anagram is an award-winning creative studio specialising in thought-provoking interactive storytelling and immersive experience design. With a background in documentary film, animation and interactive game design, the studio specialises in exploiting the most recent advances in immersive technologies to create new narrative spaces.

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Anagram

Anagram website

Collaborator

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute is a national cultural institution. Its mission is to build lasting interest in Polish culture globally. The Institute has held over 8,000 cultural events, seen by nearly 60 million viewers in over 70 countries. It also runs the CULTURE.PL website – a daily updated news service about the most interesting events and phenomena related to Polish culture. 

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Adam Mickiewicz Institute

Adam Mickiewicz Institute website

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You will need to be at St George’s Gardens by the start time of your booking. The chapel in the gardens is the meeting point, and is most easily reached from the Wakefield Street gate. The full address is: St George’s Gardens, Wakefield Street, London WC1H 8HZ.

St George’s Gardens

Messages to a Post-Human Earth

Eduardo Navarro (from Argentina) is a contemporary artist living and working in Buenos Aires. His work focuses on different ways of transforming our senses in order to have a new understanding of the natural world, and ranges from large-scale sculptures to installations and performances that investigate empathy and contemplation. Recent solo exhibitions include MAC Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (2019), The Drawing Centre, New York (2018) and Der TANK, Basel (2017).

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Eduardo Navarro Portrait

Eduardo Navarro

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Creator

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Index of Shapes

Malet Street Gardens, The University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Malet Street Gardens

Sarah Chaney is a research fellow at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. She spent her teens and 20s furiously rebelling against the mainstream, while secretly longing to be normal. It wasn’t until she passed 30 that she (mostly) stopped worrying about this mythical ideal. Alongside her research work she runs the public exhibitions and events programme at the Royal College of Nursing, occasionally writes for The Conversation and Psychology Today, and reads far too much X-Men fanfic.

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Sarah Chaney

Speaker

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Library Insights

We’ll be in the Reading Room on level 2. You can walk up the spiral staircase to the Reading Room door, or take the lift up and then head left from the Library Desk.

Reading Room

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The viewing room at Wellcome Collection

Am I Normal?

Nan Carreira is a non-binary artist working primarily with painting, drawing and participative art, with a special focus on queerness. Nan’s work can be seen as a call to imagine new worlds where traits like vulnerability and self-expression are celebrated instead of being punished and repressed.

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Nan Dorrego Carreira

Nan Carreira

@nan.carreira on Instagram

Facilitator

Tabs is a Visitor Experience Assistant at Wellcome Collection with a background in social anthropology. Tabs is interested in looking at new perspectives and forms of engagement to think about how museums can explore contemporary social issues.

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Tabs Deadman

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Medicine Man gallery

We’ll be in the ‘Medicine Man’ gallery. You can find it by taking the stairs or the lift to level 1.

Queering the Collection

Harry Parker is the author of ‘Anatomy of a Soldier’ (2016), translated into eight languages. He grew up in Wiltshire and was educated at Falmouth College of Art and University College London. He joined the British Army when he was 23 and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009 as a captain. He is now a writer and artist, and lives in London.

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Harry Parker

David Robson is an award-winning science writer and journalist, specialising in the human brain, body and behaviour.

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David Robson

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Hybrid Humans with Harry Parker

Artist, activist and part-time superhero, Jess Thom co-founded Touretteshero in 2010 as a creative response to her experience of living with Tourette’s syndrome. She has written in the mainstream and disability press, including the Guardian, the Observer and Disability Now, and has been a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow.

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Jess Thom

Touretteshero’s website

Host

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Invisible Touch, 2022

This is a large-scale event with several different activities. Check specific sub-events for their locations.

Throughout our building

Touretteshero

Curator

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Feeling our Way

Feeling Our Way

Invisible Touch

Take an interactive journey through the grounds of St George’s Gardens in Bloomsbury and reimagine your relationship with the natural world.

Wellcome Collection

Watch a newly commissioned performance created by artist Eduardo Navarro that breaks down the boundaries between humans and trees.

Try out a range of historical tests measuring so-called normal development before joining Sarah Chaney in a discussion about her book ‘Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)’.

Look for clues to LGBTQI+ experiences in Wellcome Collection’s historical items, share your discoveries, and discuss how they relate to contemporary experiences of queerness.

Join author Harry Parker in conversation with journalist David Robson, exploring how technology, robotics and artificial intelligence are changing what it means to be human.

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