Touch You Later! 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 Tactility Studies, a long-term performance project jointly manifested by theatre and dance artists Chong Gua Khee and Bernice Lee. Tactility Studies is an invitation to audiences to open up their bodies as sites and spaces for performance – to be soft, to wobble, to stretch and uncoil.
In turn, Tactility Studies conjures experiences where touch is both transgressive and reparative, pleasurable and profound. In playing with these tensions, each iteration is deeply responsive to the times and worlds we inhabit, in hopes of generating and expanding new affective discourses around touch and consensual intimacies.
Co-Directors: Chong Gua Khee and Bernice Lee
Production Stage Manager: Lam Dan Fong
Producer: Nabilah Said
Dramaturg: Corrie Tan
Performers: Adele Goh, Myra Loke, and Habibah Mohckeram
Music/Sound Design: SAtheCollective
(Source: Synopsis from Touch You Later! Website and Credits from Arts Republic Website)