BORA - DIGESTION (2020) - For DIGITAL TOUCH Website

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Bora is a French-born multidimensional artist. She has a panel of different faces that are let free to morph whenever needs be. She becomes one emotional entity, creating a visceral presence. Her universe is an immersion into organic processes, where you can hear a human being, its inner bodily and mental fluctuations. Through her audiovisual universe, she explores layers of identity, captures of flesh, its core, and unconscious mechanisms. Her quest is to create and unravel a safe space for digital intimacy, and digital humanism. Bora is a ritual, an attempt at existence.

With the demand for social distancing and self-isolation in response to Covid-19, the pandemic forces us to reconsider what it means to touch. As intimacy and contact move beyond the physical space into the digital, how do we touch beyond close proximity? What does it mean to touch and to be touched-at-a-distance? And how do such actions, permeated through technology affect communication and interaction?

Though seemingly juxtaposed fields, touch (representative of a physicality) and the digital (an artificiality) have always been intertwined. The etymology of the word digital derives from the Latin ‘digitus’ meaning finger or touch. This given hapticity to the digital blurs the clear cut dichotomies of what is considered im/material, real/artificial and touchable/untouchable. Digital Touch, then, asks what it means to interact with and feel another through the screen?

Digital Touch is an online exhibition existing on the Conscious Isolation Instagram between the 6th and 31st of August 2020. It explores the dynamics between physical and digital bodies where interconnectivity describes a perceived tactility. Drawing from Meraud and Barad’s understanding of transintimacy and intra-actions this exhibition brings together 22 contemporary artists with unique practices to question ways in which touch and intimacy are experienced through the screen.

Existing as a series of continuous long-length films on InstaLives and InstaStories the exhibition also brings into focus questions of ‘liveness’, ‘excess’ and ‘authorship’ in present digital culture, reflecting on Instagram's use (and overuse) as an alternative exhibition and intra-active space of production.

As part of its public programme, the project will integrate artists' talks and workshops expanding on the exhibition’s theme every Tuesday and Friday. This project is produced in collaboration with the Conscious Isolation platform (@consciousisolation)

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