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Rhythm of Touch, 2024
Project type
Exhibition
Date
August 1-11, 2024
Location
601 Artspace, New York City
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"Rhythm of Touch" is an exhibition that explores listening practices and investigates forms of “being with” others. Through sound, installation, sculpture, performance, and video, artists wei and Katie Hubbell consider how our environment is transformed through mutual touch, and what our interactions with others can create.
Hubbell's installation "take care now" is a meditation on slowness and shared aliveness that encourages viewers to become aware of their body through sensorial experiences. Sculptures made of moss, chicken wire, paper pulp, and sound describe an encounter with a slug, somehow implicating the audience personally. These sonic and sculptural works are accompanied by videos of "soft-bodied organisms" (snails and slugs) and their environments, exploring notions of care and intimacy.
wei's "Ensemble" explores the artist’s queer immigrant experience through the concept of penumbra, the partially shaded outer region of a shadow, asking us to reconsider the boundaries of bodies in space. The site-specific installation is composed of a series of non-tonal, touch-based wax sculptures with contact microphones which amplify the movements and vibrations of physical touch. The work will be activated through performance during the opening and closing receptions of "Rhythm of Touch" by performing artists Hyoju Cheon, Soeun Bae, Yukai Chen, Winnie Lin, and Tianyi Sun.