Do Touch

Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic amplify how intense change can lead to overwhelmed and fearful individuals clinging to extreme positions, such as conspiracy theories. Even if these positions exist only in the margins, they can affect the lives of all inhabitants of a society. Rather than evaluating the positions themselves, Do Touch is an interactive installation that invites people to explore the nature of their positions through the medium of slime. A material in-between solid and fluid, slime can be formed and reformed, visualizing the pull back and reach out movement of communication and interaction, and of existent but mutable boundaries.