Touch Parade

2011
5-channel HD video, Touch Parade, (crush) 9:22 min loop; (squeeze-2-pop) 5:49 min loop; (wading) 3:41 min loop; (glove love) 6:58 min loop; (pedal pump) 5:45 min loop.

Touch Parade is a 5-channel HD video installation displayed on specific monitors and pedestal heights. This work explores “plastic love” or fetish culture and the assimilation of marginalized sexuality on the Internet.In questioning what is an explicit or illicit image, fetishes found on YouTube that consist of banal gestures, are re-performed the artist. Unlike other pornographic content these videos evaded censoring because they are not culturally recognized as representations of sexuality.The simultaneous display of touching, accompanied by the layered murmur of the various actions query culturally limited notions of desire.