VIS issue 6 ”Contagion” presents five expositions that show contagion as an artistic concept, in reflections and analogies, in artistic experiments and in-depth studies, in living examples of how performative touch and transmission has been complicated and made impossible under restrictions and isolation – but also illuminates physical presence and touch as a basic prerequisite for art.
SOFT TO THE TOUCH: PERFORMANCE, VULNERABILITY, AND ENTANGLEMENT IN THE TIME OF COVID
What is the nature of human touch and human contact in contemporary music performance, both in general and in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic?