Weird Sensation Feels Good opens today at The Design Museum in London’s Kensington High St.
Subtitled The World of ASMR, this is the UK’s first ever exhibition on ASMR which stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
Inducing tingles, tranquility, deep calm and euphoria, this is the design story of an evolving internet sensation through a series of audio, visual and tactile works.
The first appearance was around 2009 and the methods now have millions of followers. Visitors can also learn about the man known as The Godfather of ASMR, Bob Ross, the calm and softly spoken TV artist whose landscape paintings series The Joy of Painting must have sent millions off to sleep!
Spooky tactile hands holding headphones and a weirdly bewitching moving tongue accentuate the visual and tactile encounters.
At the centre of it all is a softly carpeted arena made from a continuous crunchy pillow where you can view and listen through headphones various audio visual works or just sit and relax and chill while crunching the pillow in your hands.
This exhibition will have limited entry slots as when it was originally shown in Stockholm by ArkDes they found some people were so entranced they were lingering for four or five hours inside!
Sure to be a huge hit with young and older teens and twenties and those who love ASMR online, there’s even an interactive studio set up with microphones to record a little whispering and brushing track of your own.
Interactive studio space at Weird Sensation Feels Good by Julie Rose Bower
Soft, squidgy calm and comfy, the central arena at Weird Sensation Feels Good
Silicone fingers, photo by Ed Reeve for the Design Museum
Tobias Bradford’s Immeasureable thirst at The Design Museum The World of ASMR
Total relaxation cushioned in Weird Sensation Feels Good at The Design Museum
All photos by Ed Reeve for The Design Museum – all rights reserved
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