30 APR 2020, 11–12 DEC 2020

Touch You Later!


First staging

Centre 42


Second staging

Supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Most people are holding up stuffed toys such as penguins and avocados in front of their faces. One person is showing everybody their cat on their lap. The top right rectangle is a blur of blue - there is no sense of whether it is an object or clothing! IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The rectangles (Left to right, top to bottom) show: a very blurry close-up of someone smiling, someone somehow haloed by a rainbow arc of light, a green thing, a mirror reflecting someone’s laptop and the Zoom window, an otherworldly whitish long stripe against black, someone’s silhouette against their window curtain.

Photos from Touch You Later! (2020). Credit: Tactility Studies.
These are screenshots from a Zoom-based performance. There were 5 audiences to 1 performer, seen as 2 rows of 3 rectangle screens in Zoom.



SYNOPSIS

Touch You Later! (2020-ongoing) is an intimate participatory performance that was created specifically for the Zoom platform amidst pandemic conditions. In a world where physical touch and intimacy with loved ones became suspect, much less touch with strangers, what new forms of touch and intimacies might be possible between bodies and objects? 

Touch You Later! draws from the larger body of Tactility Studies.



CO-DIRECTORS

Chong Gua Khee 
Bernice Lee

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Lam Dan Fong


DRAMATURG

Corrie Tan


PERFORMERS
(FIRST STAGING)

Chong Gua Khee 
Bernice Lee


PERFORMERS
(SECOND STAGING)

Adele Goh
Myra Loke
Bib Mockram


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