A Close View of the Face
2020ROLE
Designer, and fabricatorCOLLABORATORS
Heidi Latsky Dance and the Boston Architectural CollegeCharlotte, Jeremy, and Que
MATERIALS + METHODS
3D printing, clear resin, elastic, Fusion360PERFORMANCES
International Day of Persons with DisabilitiesRelated projects
Selfie Stick, Love is aboutThis shoulder-mounted phone holder adjusts in three+ axes.
It was designed and fabricated for New York City-based Heidi Latsky Dance (HLD). Each year HLD honor International Day of Persons with Disabilities with yearly performances of ON DISPLAY GLOBAL located in more than thirty countries. For the past three years — the first two with Hortense Gerardo and this year with Jeremy Alliger — I have co-organized one performance at the gallery at Boston Architectural College on Newbury Street. During Covid the performance was done over a 24 hour period using Zoom. Our afternoon slot featured two dancers in the gallery and one at home, with many other performers and audience members tuning in. At the BAC we used projection and cameras to capture the experience. I created a wearable phone holder for each dancer as a way of capturing the intimacy and vulnerability that is typically associated with ON DISPLAY in non-Covid times when the audience can get close to the dancers.
The phone holder was mentioned in an article in Fjord Review. The entire performance was covered by the New York Times.
