hearing
hands
Hearing hands - made during the first wave of Covid - invites people to immerse their hands within an interactive, buoyant and tactile object, that creates hyper-real sound and dissosciative generative music in relation to their hand movements.
The work seeked to explore materials in which our relationship to them shift over time - the buoyant, liquidy polymers initially engage exploratory interactions of the hands dexterity, but over time creates a dislocating sensation as the hands seek solidity - often oscillating between shades of these, depending on who is playing and their own sensory capacities.
The piece was conceputalised thinking around how hands are sites of exchange and meditates on the ways in which communication technologies incite dissociative and disembodied practices through ritual usage.
(2021)
As seen at Maker Music Festival (2023)