ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the work of Angelica Mesiti that attempts to disarticulate the process of meaning-making through vision, by rewiring it via the senses of hearing and touch. Developing 'feeling–seeing', or 'critical ethical vision', might be a way to get back into the world, from which 'the domineering gaze' had banished. This search for a way back into the world through 'feeling–seeing' resonates with other topical debates in philosophy and contemporary art. Mesiti's interest in experimenting with how to stimulate different ways of seeing through her video installations is captured by the title of The Colour of Saying with its unambiguous reference to synaesthesia. In an attempt to honour that difference, Mesiti has created a unique storytelling style that relies less on words than on sound and rhythm, less on image than on texture and movement, one that locates political agency less in the professional artist than in everyday creativity.
