soft relations

Exploring the boundaries between intimacy and surveillance, 2019 Level Ground Resident Artist Tristan Espinoza invites audiences to reconsider how technology affects our relationships. soft relations is an interactive software installation that draws the overlapping space between participants' bodies. When participants separate, a recording of this shape is left on screen. Espinoza used soft relations to reflect on how we build proximity to one another when that connection gets mediated by technology.

The show opened on October 18, 2019 at Forge in Lincoln Heights. The show included a Tiny Tech Zines popup library and live dance performance.