For every major sense but touch there's a major form of art.
For vision, our most dominant sense, there is literature, painting, sculpture and film.
For hearing there is music.
For smell there is perfumery.
For taste there are the culinary arts.
Touch seems like the odd one out - it's playing second fiddle to taste in food, and to appearance in sculpture and clothing. You only very rarely find some artwork where the main draw is the tactile experience. Why is this?
For a blind person sculpture can surely be as engrossing as for a sighted person.
1: Notable exceptions exist; e.g., House of Leaves.
It might be a less intrusive interpretation of a written book than, e.g., a film adaptation. But it’s still very different from reading it.
Braille, I presume, it’s the same. Nothing interpreting the words except your own mind.
And maybe today it's transmitted (when not by computer) in dead-tree tomes but, again maybe, the transmission is not the thing. Maybe the play is the thing. Or the story is. Whatever.
For blind people, non-sequential events and non-serial stories exist. In fact, just like unfortunately distractedly-sighted people, that's most of real life. I realize seeing all sorts of ADHD stimuli might lead you to think you're "more aware," but everyone has an ability to process reality, which happens in real time simultaneously in many places at once.
Fine art, like painting, is almost definitionally not supposed to be touched.
Applied arts include fibers (knitting, weaving), ceramics, jewelry and metalwork, etc. Stuff that’s meant to be pleasing and functional.
Whether something should be touched is almost _the thing_ that moves a field from one category to the other.
Applied artists, and their product designer cousins, will spend a lot of time exploring and pursuing tactile qualities.
And if woodworking isn't some kind of tactile art, why do people always want to touch wooden furniture or art? Always. Just watch it happen. I'd like to know if that's how all apes react or just we.
I would argue that food "mouth feel" is pretty important (as is the feeling of eating with hands - that's something to turn into art for a third of the planet daily and the rest of us on lucky occasion).
Arguably, whatever's going on with haptics in VR is art. Even if it's porn. Porn is almost as good for spreading art as it is for spreading tech!
Sculpture is underpreciated by you, have you tried to build at least a basic brick wall? This process involves almost no sight and a lot of touch.
https://time.com/archive/6671960/sex-in-the-city/
He had this style of portrait he liked to do of women and their distorted faces. It seems so surreal and imaginative, but in a way, it’s not at all. Picasso painted exactly what he saw in bed with these women. Close up he saw double images of their face from two angles, a bit grotesque if you think about it, but then sex is a bit grotesque as well;)
https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/gallery/8122/pica...
Also, 4D theatres where they add motion, wind and water to enhance the experience.
Arguably, amusement park rides are all about messing with your sense of touch (proprioception, balance, etc)
Native American basketweaving https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/woven-legacies-basketr...
Renaissance sculpture https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en/collezione/scul...
Origami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami
Pottery https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/master-potter...
Textiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile
Dance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance
Etc. Anything you make with your body, really, so also typing and literature :)
Two books I like about art:
The Hand - How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank R. Wilson https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/191866/the-hand-by-...
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. This one speaks about how anything you do can be considered a form of art. A book with positive vibes. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717356/the-creative...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tactile+gallery&t=fpas&ia=web