Come Shave With Me is a project by Alexandra Barancová & Jae Perris in collaboration with Moniker.
The project proposes an outlet for social grooming in a time of distancing; Come Shave With Me is a virtual skin that people can groom together, online.
Sheared silky smooth, maintained mildly prickly or kept rough and bushy… There are countless ways you might like it. You won’t know until you try.
With public events and gatherings cut down around the world, bodily self-care is – let’s be honest – not necessarily a top-most priority. Your arms, armpits, chest, back, genitals, or legs are (usually) tucked away during video chats and conferences after all. What part of it is just for others’ eyes to see and skins to feel? What do we make of our physical bodies in isolation?
The virtual world often has neither the patience, nor the infrastructure to accommodate the wants and needs of our bodies. Come Shave With Me speculates whether the satisfactions enjoyed from bodily grooming could be recreated and shared in virtual spaces.
This work is an outcome of Figureable, an artistic research project funded by the Creative Industries Fund NL. Figureable explores our relationships to and with our bodies through embodiment in games.
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