Bill Shannon

Touch Update is an interdisciplinary project that explores the significant and often subtle implications of physical human contact. Street performances sharing touch as source material are observed by invited artists. These "Artists as Witness" replace the ubiquitous “proof” of digital cameras with unique works for sampling project wide. Dancers on stage physically reach through projected fragmentations of themselves texting each other emoticons, for an exquisite embrace. Video­masks worn by the dancers with their recorded faces playing semi­transparently over their real faces grimace in the video as they smile behind. A dance on crutches choreography emerges, danced without crutches.