PEOPLE TAPPING ON DIFFERENT ITEMS

## PEOPLE TAPPING ON DIFFERENT ITEMS

*PEOPLE TAPPING ON DIFFERENT ITEMS* brings together 150 videos selected from YouTube, most of which show women’s hands tapping their fingernails on everyday objects and surfaces. These gestures are part of the online culture of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), in which sounds and visual stimuli can evoke a tingling sensation and a feeling of deep relaxation.

The installation consists of three iPads connected to loudspeakers and a mixer. Each iPad contains more than five hours of video material. Played simultaneously, the videos create a continuous, layered soundscape in which individual tapping sounds overlap and form shifting rhythms.

Through the interplay of hands, objects and screens, the work explores consumerism and intimacy in the post-internet age. Everyday objects become instruments of sensory attention, while gestures originally recorded for an online audience are brought together in a shared physical space.