April 1, 2020 at 5PM

How does intimacy manifest in a contactless space, in an age of hyper-connectivity? Are we more or less exposed in virtual worlds? How do the physical, emotional and spiritual meet across networks? And what are the new measures of closeness?

Intimacy can be understood as an ambivalence of borders, the confusion of inside and outside. Where do I end and You begin? Intimacy can also manifest as poetic association, bringing to the surface the realms of shared memory and imagination through speech, gesture, and discourse.

Artist-researchers Ofri Cnaani and Keren Moscovitch invite you to join a long-distance workshop that emerged from ongoing research about gesture, intimacy and technology.

In the two-hour Zoom workshop, while each one of us is in their own room, we will engage collectively in a series of movement exercises, conversations, chat rooms and short readings to provoke contemplation as to how we experience our bodies in relation to intimacy and confinement, and how we think through the mediation of an online space and its formation of political, poetic, spatial and corporeal narratives.

If you are interested in participating, please RSVP by Wednesday, April 1 at 10AM to nkaack@airgallery.org. The workshop will be capped at 20 participants.