18 OCT 2020
Tactility Studies:
Tactility Studies:
Pandemic Distances
Presented as part of Objectifs' Curator Open Call exhibition immaterial bodies (2020)
SYNOPSIS
When was the last time you touched someone other than people in your household, or your family?
2020 has been a peculiar year of minimised human touch, rapid digitalisation, and a pervasive air of uncertainty as the world recalibrates around an unseen virus. In these times, we protect one another by not-hugging, bumping elbows, and trying as far as possible not to breathe the same air. What then are options that do still remain for us to touch? In the durational work Tactility Studies: Pandemic Distances, we sensitise the soles of the feet, and play with gestures of self-care in public space -- in persistent hope of expanding the current choreographies of touch and connection.
CO-DIRECTORS
Chong Gua Khee
Bernice Lee
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Lam Dan Fong
DRAMATURG
Corrie Tan
PERFORMERS
Adele Goh
Bib Mockram
VISUAL/SET DESIGN
Bib Mockram
Bib Mockram
MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN