O is for Orange

‘O is for Orange’ showcases a collaborative meditation on the skin of the fruit body, through the act of peeling. To contemplate the aspect of touch in care work, the multiethnic orange body is chosen for how it gets held and peeled. For how its shape reminds the hands to create for it an enclosure, a coop. The relationship between the hands and the orange then forms a skin to skin relationship.

Now, there isn’t a hierarchy when we speak of touch, but perhaps one does emerge when we hold. Is the skin the protector or are the hands, as they unravel it? A group of care-workers and parents lend their voices and perspectives on care, comfort and control.

Care has a tendency to resist but also require Control. Comfort perseveres silently. So can we weigh our expressions of touch? How can our skins soften and harden as per the circumstance? What skins do we donne to be curt or professional, social or intimate? Is touch just a pressing of skins or do skins come undone? Is skin a boundary, a border, a drape, a container or a screen? Come join us in a peeling of skins.