Aya Momose – Melting Point

Melting Point by Japanese artist Aya Momose invites you to perform an apparently simple gesture: drinking a glass of water. But the water is heated in real time to the body temperature of the artist, who is located in Tokyo at that moment. As a visitor you drink from this water yourself. The exhibition space of DE SINGEL takes the form of a bar, where performers carefully calibrate the temperature to live data from Momose's body. What follows is an intimate and slightly uncomfortable experience: drinking lukewarm water that suggests physical proximity to a body that is absent. Melting Point explores how we experience the boundary between ourselves and the other. Through something as mundane as temperature, Momose makes tangible how technology, body and imagination intertwine and how proximity can also evoke estrangement.