Touching

2010, 10 minutes

Three-channel film work that explores the implications of empathy in performance and everyday life.

A new film project by artist Edward Thomasson, "Touching" is a three-channel film work that explores the implications of empathy in performance and everyday life. Each of the three films that make up the work presents a different scenarios in which notions of empathetic engagement are questioned. These scenarios range from an art therapy class to a re-enactment of John Gielgud's infamous cottaging scandal of 1953.


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Sir John Gielgud