London

The first Sensing Salon was set up at The Showroom for two weeks (2-9 Aug 2016) as a studio for the practice of healing arts. The studio was designed to open a conversation about expanding existing ideas of art, to include the healing arts. It also created a space where we could work together with London’s migrant communities, and include neglected traditional healing practices as well as rehearsing new ones.

Healing, as much as art, is a praxis. It is something to do. Even when you ask a physician about what’s really happening they can never answer, because they don’t know exactly, but there are thing that can be done - treatments, which in the case of modern medicine is very invasive – through which the body comes back to some kind of integration.

Through a holistic approach we began to look at healing practices as an art form, a praxis that propose and rehearses its own ways of living and doing differently.

Working with local groups and residents, the project consisted primarily in the creation of a space where our practices - such as Reiki, Tarot and Astrology - could be shared with residents of the Church Street Ward. as well as encouraging the residents to share their traditional complementary therapies of African, Arab, or South Asian origin.