I attended the artist talk at the Crisp Ellert Art Museum on Flagler College Campus last night. I found Holly's work inspiring. I appreciate how she uses the premise of touch to fuel ideas about art and design.
Holly Hanessian, Touch in Real Time
Artist Talk @ CEAM: Thursday, February 18, 5pm
Touch in Real Time Pop up Project: Friday, February 19, 12 to 2pm in Kenan Plaza, West Lawn
Touch in Real Time is a participatory project that explores the intimate act of touch in our digital age. In 2012 Hanessian (Professor of Ceramics at Florida State University) began this project in which she shook a stranger’s hand with a wet lump of clay, imprinting the participant’s hand with her own. The handshakes would last 15-20 seconds, the amount of time it takes for the brain to release the bonding hormone oxytocin. Hanessian has performed Touch in Real Time at sites throughout the country, including the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC; The Society for Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA; The and the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, among others, and the residual objects have been exhibited alongside the documentation from each site at venues including The Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA (2013) and the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC (2014).
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