67 Greenland Street
Liverpool L1 OBY
Merseyside
9th October 2010
Visitors to the A Foundation on the 9th October were invited to cruise the alleys and windows of Touch Village – an interactive performance installation that explored the possibilities of documenting intimacy and human contact in performance. The village is a web of interactive situations, which leads visitors on their own journey, through which they can explore themselves and the limits of performer-participant relationships.
Touch Village was a curatorial project by Kimbal Bumstead in collaboration with a group of selected interactive artists, Hedva Eltanani, Jack Ridley, Baptiste Croze, Heather Jones, Matthew Kay, Lynn Lu, Richard Taylor, Alexandra Zierle, Paul Carter and The Mysterious DJ Collective.
Touch Village
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www.sevenstreets.com/art-and-creativity/reach-out-and-touch-me/
Reach out and touch someone this weekend at the A Foundation. It's OK, honestly, they're begging for it...
touchWant to sample the bucolic, pastoral life of the English country village? Can’t be fagged jumping a train to leafy Lancashire? Head over to Greenland Street tomorrow, when the village will come to you, courtesy of the ever-inventive folk at A Foundation.
Stroll around the traffic-free environs of Touch Village – an performance installation that promises to offer more interaction than your average afternoon in the shires.
“The village is a web of interactive situations,” A Foundation says, ” and visitors are led on their own journey, through which they can explore themselves and the limits of performer-participant relationships.”
Ew. As long as there’s a hand gel dispenser on entry we’re, kinda, OK with that.
Touch Village is a curatorial project by Kimbal Bumstead in collaboration with a group of selected interactive artists, and takes place from 8pm til midnight.
Structured around a central installation, seven separate performances offer the chance – should you take it – of getting up close and personal with the artists. Shared moments, fleeting intimacy, a transitory coming together of minds, bodies and ideas.
If any event is likely to really explore this year’s Biennial theme – touched – what’s the betting this is it?
Oh, and just to make it interesting, there’s a friendly bar with live music. That should break down a few barriers. Big Brother taught us something, you know.
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