An artificial landscape of sensorial strangeness

Soft Shell is a duet created with and performed by Ásgeir Helgi Magnússon and Saga Kjerulf Sigurðardóttir, set in an artificial landscape. In Soft Shell, two inhabitants practice intimacy through intricate patterns and affective labour, looking for a voyeuristic safe haven for their soft encounters.

Drawing from the aesthetics and content of ASMR videos, Soft Shell explores how and if these sensations can be evoked as bodies interact with sound and installations that play with various textures, shapes, colors and different levels of transparency. The audience is invited into a quiet, strange world where they are allowed to witness ambiguous and uncanny relations, playful unhappiness and artificial empathy.