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contact - with headphone warning.mp4
April 2025
Contact is a movement-based work performed by Prita Hasjim and Pawel Reczek that explores the tension between intimacy and observation, the experience of being physically present with another person while simultaneously tethered to technology. Using contact improvisation as a foundation, the dancers maintain continuous bodily connection, creating a kind of choreographed trust and vulnerability. Simultaneously, the experience was audio recorded with devices taped to our bodies, allowing our phones to “listen” and generate a layered stereo soundscape.
This work plays with the idea of generative art, where movement produces more than motion, producing sound, space, memory. It also asks unsettling questions: Are we more attuned to our devices than each other? Are our phones the closest listeners in our lives?