SENSORY ARTS LAB · YES:GAMSO
Flip the switch to come in
No credentials required. What we do is gently wake the senses that fell asleep along the way — turning the light back on, one small switch at a time, together.
Nobody switches their senses
off on purpose.
It's just that the small choices we make to get through the day set them down, one by one.
The morning a cold blocked your nose and your favourite soup tasted like warm water. The evening you ate in front of a screen and couldn't recall a single flavour afterwards. We tend to notice things only once they're gone.
And the senses that stay awake differ from person to person. Some of us answer first to sound, some to colour, some to what the hands touch. Noticing which senses are sharp in you and which have gone quiet — that is where knowing yourself begins.
To feel alive is to have your senses alive. So we study how to wake the senses of ordinary life. Not through anything grand — through small, everyday experiences.
The five everyone knows, we keep switched on every day. Below them are senses whose names we hardly know — not switched off, just turned down for a while.
The five everyone knows
Senses we hardly know by name
The switches below are still turned down. Try turning them up, one by one.
Nothing mystical — real senses, inside the body. We turn these switches back up, one at a time.
Happiness isn't something newly made — it's a memory rediscovered through the senses.
It isn't about making something finished. It's half a day in which everyone gathers their own senses.
Companies, institutions, brands, small circles — we shape the programme around your purpose and your size.
Whether it's an organisation or a handful of friends — half a day to stop, collect your own senses, and see each other a little differently.
Good for — team offsites · retreats · schools & libraries · wellbeing programmes
A participatory booth that quietly catches the senses of passers-by. We build it to the grain of your space, so people feel your message with the body rather than the head.
Good for — pop-up stores · exhibitions · fairs · festivals · brand campaigns
Work that doesn't end with a single event. From co-designing a programme to sensory goods, content and research — made together over time.
Good for — brand partnerships · co-created programmes · product & content · research · living labs
Places we've passed through.
A box that turns a meeting room into a workshop. From the opening welcome on, it's built so your senses feel welcomed first — so a team can stop and meet their own senses for an hour, with or without us. Being tested inside Feeling the Season right now. Looking for our first partner →
Three sensory expeditions with six grown-ups in Hanam, October 2026 — first you find what is yours, then it becomes ours. Selected by the Silhak Museum’s Small Experiment grant.
Where we first came together. Ten adults drew on stones; twenty primary-school children shaped themselves out of clay and cloth. “I'm no good at art” turned into quiet absorption, and the children left wearing the look of so I'm an artist too. Here we learned that adults and children have to recover together. Hosted by the Hanam Cultural Foundation.
Collects the joy of putting your own thoughts into a form you made yourself.
Collects the stories that surface between words and movement.
Collects the colours and textures that pass through an ordinary day.
Visual art, performance and design — three people who each stand on their own, and walk together.
We hold down our own work, and we cross each day as somebody's mother and father too. Getting through what's given to us. Raising the children who came to us, even on the days parenting doesn't suit us at all. All of us, in our own way —
we've worked so hard just to keep living.
What does it mean to pat yourself on the back for that? People who had carried this question for a long time ended up in the same room. We know because we've been through it. What's needed isn't a grand consolation, but one switch turned on in today.
YES:GAMSO is a sensory arts recovery project — helping anyone discover the artist in themselves, by waking the senses and expressing them freely.
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