‘Ideasthesia’: An art show for all the senses

Many are familiar with the neurological phenomenon of synesthesia, in which sounds or sights may be sensed as colors or movements or vice versa. Synesthete Duke Ellington, for instance, once said a G note played by alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges sounded just like pale blue satin. Fewer, however, have stumbled across neuroscientist Danko Nikolic’s notion of ideasthesia, which proposes that concepts and sensations are just as intertwined.

Somehow the latter notion ties perfectly into a multisensory, interactive installation staged in support of a multipronged nonprofit arts organization that refuses to be pinned down to any one medium.