18 OCT 2020

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


MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN

SAtheCollective