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Home Performance no.84

Ilka Theurich

Touch

WHAT: 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 will implement.

WHEN: Live – 26.11.2020 –  5:00 pm (GMT) London, 6:00 pm (GMT+2) Hannover, 9:00 pm (GMT+3) Istanbul

Duration:30-45 min

WHERE: YouTube – Studio: Ilka Theurich – https://m.youtube.com/c/IlkaTheurich

With the technical support of Marlo Zirr

Nominated by Jacqueline Van de Geer