Aya Momose – Melting Point

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