Zero Platform IV: Life on Screen - TOUCH #2 - Ilka Theurich
19th of December 2020 LIVESTREAM DOCUMENTATION during: Zero Platform IV: Life on Screen, International Performance Art Festival organized by: New Zero Art Space, Yangoon, MYANMAR 17th-21st of December 2020 TOUCH #02 by Ilka Theurich Questions concerning the relationship between digital media and touch have become central during the Covid19 pandemic. As a sense modality, touch has been both over- and undervalued in Western culture, but between March 2020 and March 2021 a lot of people felt a real lack of touch during online conversations with colleagues, friends and family. And as an effect out of it, there is a new practical knowledge around the world. Before the pandemic, touch has been often considered as vague, vulgar, drive-related or impure. But since the pandemic, touch was recognized as a potentially positive and subversive quality. This online performance by Ilka Theurich deals with different dimensions of touch, whereby touch is not only a question of sen
