To Touch is to Touch Something


“My body is distinguishable from the table or the lamp in that I can turn away from the latter whereas my body is constantly perceived.”  - Maurice Merlau-Ponty
                                                                                   

Puny Times Gallery, Montreal (May 2017)

performer: hilary bergen
text: maurice merlau-ponty
voice: samantha
music: “dance this mess around” - the B-52s
sound: vagus nerve of cat
editing/motion effects: emilie st-hilaire
technician: marchiano dong jun oh

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