Exploring the importance of touch, the new show from leading digital performance innovators ZU-UK takes one audience member at a time through a journey from childhood to adulthood and old age through the medium of a bedtime routine. Within Touching Distance is a patient-led artwork, asking audiences to consider the ways that we interact at a sensory level with the world. At the start of the 35 minute production, audiences will put on a VR headset and be gently put to bed by a motherly figure, before being immersed in an interactive dreamscape narrated by a child, and finally experience a palliative care setting. Each stage asks us about the nature of touch and the comfort of human connection.
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