→ Photo Credit: Joseph Nair (Tactility Studies: Soft Bodies)

→ Photo Credit: Objectifs (Tactility Studies: Pandemic Distances)

Tactility Studies (2018-ongoing) is a long-term performance project jointly manifested by theatre and dance artists Chong Gua Khee and Bernice Lee. Emerging from their exploration of ‘the body as theatre’, each iteration of 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.

Since 2018, Tactility Studies has been incubated at and supported by Dance Nucleus, Singapore. fb.com/TactilityStudies

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Traces of the project’s process from its beginning to 2020 are collected in Tactility Studies: Exercises in Archiving, as part of Dance Nucleus’ online exhibition CIRCUIT #1 in 2020, which was a collection of artefacts by Singaporean independent artists working with contemporary performance.