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.

Tactility Studies has been incubated at and supported by Dance Nucleus, Singapore from 2018-2021.

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Manifestations
Tactility Studies: Soft Bodies (work-in-progress showing)
7 Dec 2019 @ Dance Nucleus

Tactility Studies: Pandemic Distances
18 Oct 2020 @ Objectifs 
Part of immaterial bodies

Tactility Studies: Hold to Reset
14-23 May 2021 @ The Blue Room, The Arts House.
Part of Singapore International Festival of Arts

Tactility Studies: Where Our Lost Things Live
9-11 Sep 2022. The Glassroom, National Gallery of Singapore.
In conjunction with Gallery Children's Biennale by National Gallery Singapore

More manifestations
Touch You Later! (2020-ongoing) is an intimate participatory performance that was created specifically for the Zoom platform amidst pandemic conditions. Performed in April 2020 with Centre 42, and again in December 2020 supported by National Arts Council.

Tactility Studies: Exercises in Archiving 
Part of Dance Nucleus’ online exhibition CIRCUIT #1 in 2020.


Co-Directors — Chong Gua Khee and Bernice Lee
Dramaturg — Corrie Tan

For programming and other enquiries, please contact [email protected]