Sensory Terroir

Sensory Terroir is a crossmodal artwork that embodies her notion of sensory terroir: an interlaced sensuous system that evokes the concept of terroir – the symbiotic environmental and human factors that combine to create the overall character of a wine from a specific place. This resonates with the idea of the senses as a similarly complex synergistic system that together form a unified perceptual aesthetic experience. The sounds, wine, and the culture captured and transmitted by the artist through this work originate from an actual terroir – the vineyards and winery of Pollinaria in Abruzzo, Italy – with Sensory Terroir an imaginative expression of that place.

Sensory Terroir can be presented blindfolded as an immersive installation, or from a sensory  box (above). A sensory score guides the audience into the experience through mindful sensory interactions with the wine bottle, glass and corkscrew. A soundscape is listened to while tasting the Montepulciano d’Abruzzo wine from the same place the soundscape was made; the soundscape designed to crossmodally interact with the wine’s flavours and echo its flow across the palate. The sensory terroir these interactions highlight suggests connections between the wine’s sensory, natural, cultural, and geographical dimensions.

Sensory Terroir
Multimedia: Soundscape 18:46, Amorotti Montepulciano d’Abruzzo wine 
Sensory Terroir 310 MB wav file