06/02/2026
“How You’re Sitting + How I’m Sitting”, a project by Anna Bonomi and El Linds during Semester 1 at MIARD, and exhibited in December at .
This work will be part of ‘The Space does not Agree’ opening at .rotterdam tonight, February 6th.
In “How You’re Sitting + How I’m Sitting”, the misunderstanding gets reframed as essential to communication, rather than its failure. The experiment that led to this installation explored the limits of shared language in the transference between internet and external experience. Twenty emotional states were coded using alternative descriptive systems, then exchanged and decoded. The process revealed what we have been calling perception gaps (= spaces where the meaning slips or get lost) and showed how having a shared language only creates the illusion of understanding.
Perception gaps aren’t failures, they’re essential meeting places. The larger the gap, the more expansive the space for collaborative meaning-making and understanding.
Participants were invited to arrange the rugs as they wished to make their own seats on the floor, to be immersed in the audio that played dynamically through two speakers placed on either side of the rugs.
The Thematic Design Project project is led by .
