Touch Me Here
Sahar Sajadieh · 2017
Touch Me Here is an interactive performance art piece that invites the participant to virtually touch and paint on the body of a female artist who is standing at a distance, in the same closed intimate space. Using the artist's body as a canvas, the participant makes a virtual body-art piece with a custom-built augmented reality painting application. This interactive digital artwork explores and challenges the ethics of live-interaction, while simultaneously blurring the line between the private and public spheres. Other major themes of this work include: the dialectic between virtual and real, micro and macro gestures, and motions and emotions. Touch Me Here is a digital reenactment of Valie Export's Tap and Touch Cinema (1968).