Cold Hard Thing
Cold Hard Thing
Communal animation performance
2021
This hour-long event prompted passersby in the Chicago Cultural Center to touch a lump of cold plaster and consider the human impulse to get emotionally cold and hardened when hurt. While they touched it, I snapped a picture, adding to an animated sequence of many hands touching the same lump.
Cold Hard Thing was part of the "Reading Experiment in Progress" presented by Red Rover at the Chicago Cultural Center, in the NFO XPO of the Michigan Ave galleries, as part of the Lumpen exhibit "Successful Failures".