2017 – 2018
HOLD ME NOW — Feel and Touch in an Unreal World

Touch is of vital importance to our emotional and neurobiological development. So how do we feel and more specifically touch in our technologically mediated dematerialized digital cultures? Do we solely stroke and swipe our screens? How is the body and its feel involved? Are we in fact cultivating different tactilities in relation to the world and others? Further, how can we trace the ways in which touch informs and reforms the body with respect to violence, gender, sexuality, democracy, and identity? If art and design have privileged sight and sound, should touch – and all the senses – be addressed and activated in order to help us stay ‘in touch’ with our bodies and the material world?

With: Karen Archey, Army of Love, boychild, Karen Barad, Rizvana Bradley, Sarah Browne, Staci Bu Shea, Fiona Candlin, Holly Childs, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, João Florêncio, Ioanna Gerakidi, Ine Gevers, Amelia Groom, Jack Halberstam, Jort van der Laan, Erin Manning, Laura U. Marks, Marianna Maruyama, Mark Paterson, Paul Preciado, Joke Robaard, Charlotte Rooijackers, Eloise Sweetman, Wu Tsang, Hypatia Vourloumis, Eyal Weizman, and many others.

Project website: [https://holdmenow.rietveldacademie.nl]

Images Must Be Explained or Told — Joke Robaard

Deep Body Massage — Marianna Maruyama

Touch as a Form of Knowledge — Sarah Browne

We hold where study — Wu Tsang

Not at a Distance: On Touch, Synaesthesia and Other Ways of Knowing — Erin Manning

Practicing Care — Karen Archey

Thank You: On What it Means to Care — Joseph Grigely

Making Breath Palpable: Theatricality, Somatics, and Technology in Uncertain Archives — Kate Elswit

Roundtable discussion with Luke Willis Thompson, Jesse Darling, Mirthe Berentsen and Joseph Grigely, moderated by Karen Archey — Karen Archey, Mirthe Berentsen, Jesse Darling, Joseph Grigely, Luke Willis Thompson

The Beauty of Distress — Mirthe Berentsen

Untitled — Luke Willis Thompson

There’s a Tear in the World: Touch After Finitude — Rizvana Bradley

Forensic Oceanography — Eyal Weizman

To the Bone: Some Speculations on Touch — Hortense Spillers

Reach out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand): Feel Philosophies — Jack Halberstam

A Reading from The Black Maria — Aracelis Girmay

On Touching: The Alterity Within — Karen Barad

Hydrangea 1 — J. G. Biberkopf, Holly Childs

Recruitment for the Army of Love — Army of Love, Ingo Niermann

Viral Masculinities: Gay Porn, Porosity and the Promise of Inhuman Touch — João Florêncio

Crip Time — Carolyn Lazard

Simulating Touch: Learning Tactility through Analogy in Medical Education — Anna Harris

In Conversation: UNTITLED LIPSYNC — boychild

Painting Infinitude — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Luminous Images, Hidden in the Senses — Laura U. Marks

Material Relations — Julia Bryan-Wilson

Agitation as a Form of Conduct — Mel Y. Chen

Out of Distracted Vision: Psychedelic Sexology and the Handmade Aesthetics of Transgender — Jeanne Vaccaro

Hugging Baboons and Tracing Hieroglyphs: Touching museum exhibits without permission — Fiona Candlin

Relational Thingness — Yvonne Dröge Wendel

Robot Love: Up Close and Personal with Robots — Ine Gevers

The Politics of Touch — Erin Manning

Lips Licks Leaks — Amelia Groom

The Malbody Centre — Marije Baalman

Reading Intimacy — Eloise Sweetman

Touching Fleeing — Hypatia Vourloumis

An Inventory — Jesse Darling

Haptics, Creativity, and Knowledge Between Bodies — Mark Paterson

Imaginations of Remote Personal Touch Communication — Carey Jewitt

The Algorithms of Immediate Contact: On Touch and its Virtualizations — David Parisi

Ligia Lewis in conversation with Erin Manning and Rizvana Bradley about ‘minor matter’ Ligia Lewis — Rizvana Bradley, Ligia Lewis, Erin Manning

Every Life Matters: The Work of Lorenza Böttner — Paul B. Preciado

Studies on Fantasmical Anatomy Vol. 2 — Anne Juren

Simulating Touch: Learning Tactility through Analogy in Medical Education  — Anna Harris

Luminous Images, Hidden in the Senses  — Laura U. Marks