The artistic collective of the Politics of Touch project consists of Aber Gendy, Ana Lora, Ivana Lukić, selma banich, and Slavica Duričić. Contributing to the collective was also the recently deceased Mirjana Učakar. In collaboration with Ana Dana Beroš and Saša Nemec as well as women from many parts of the world who today call Ljubljana, Logatec and Zagreb their home.

As its theoretical starting point, the project uses the book ‘Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty’ by Canadian theorist, political philosopher and artist Erin Manning, in which she explores the concepts of violence, gender, sexuality, security, democracy and identity. The author maps the ways in which touch informs the body, highlighting movement as an intervention of the sensory (body) in the political.

Politic of Touch created the ‘Erased Gazes’ protest canvas memorial. It was collectively made at workshops devised and run by selma banich, through collaborative research and workshop work they encouraged the exchange of experiences, knowledge, skills, ideas and resources, with the aim of strengthening ties between artistic, feminist and migrant communities in a local and transnational context. These workshops took place between July and December 2022 in Slovenia and Croatia.