Together With Touch
Experimental Sound, Performance, Twitter Data
Bangalore, India 2021
A public performance with interwoven live Mental Health data, explored through contemporary dance and generative sound. The term contact, deriving from the latin con- and -tangere, "together with touch”, gained significant urgency since the Covid Pandemic in 2020. While physical contact (touch) was being radically restricted, visual artist Lena Heubusch (@lenaheubusch) invites performer and mental health specialist Avril Unger(@thestormfactory), sound engineer Nikhil Nagaraj(@nik.nagaraj) and creative coder Gaurav Singh(@mathscapes) to converse at the intersection of their practices. Heubusch poses questions such as: How do we experience a 'being body' through the lens of the digital realm? Avril Stormy Unger physically responds to sound that is generated by live Twitter data; popular hashtags, terms that according to statistics have the most “weight” concerning current mental health conditions. *Goethe Institut Bangalore(@goetheinstitutbangalore) presents this project as part of the Artistic Exchange at Goethe Institut Bangalore, facilitated by Walkin Studios. publicdomain.garden (@publicdomain.garden) is a project that explores the changing landscape of public life, and hybridity of the virtual and physical that we live in. The project is conceptualised by Walkin Studios and funded by the International Relief Fund for Organisations in Culture and Education 2021 of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut and other partners. goethe.de/relieffund