Stay LIVE at Home - Ev Performansi no.84 -TOUCH - Ilka Theurich
26th of November 2020
TOUCH
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 since March 2020 a lot of people feel 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 sensory experience or physical performance but also a question of the technology that stands between the performance artist and the recipient. Theurich questions if it is really possible to develop vulnerability, exposure and depth, delicacy and tact inside an online performance?
And because of her critical media attitude with regard to visual live performances, this is also the first online performance that Ilka Theurich implemented.
You will find the link to the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U-oqecM5O8