Anonymous Hugging Wall

source: highinfo

Le créatif Keetra Dean Dixon a imaginé ce dispositif insolite de câlins anonymes qui fait suite à la campagne des free hugs. Une idée originale, certes, mais un peu contraire à l’esprit du free hugs, non ? A moins que ce ne soit pour aider les personnes qui ne supportent vraiment pas le contact de ses alter ego … une sorte d’entrainement en quelque sorte.
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source: fromkeetra

Hi, I’m Keetra. I currently divide my time between public installations, exhibits, commercial projects, and speaking. Professionally I have worked under the titles Designer, Director, Experiential Choreographer and Artist. My work often plays with the fallibility of communication and social exchange. Formal explorations are spurred on by discovery, exploiting the shortcomings of ubiquitous creative tools, forced happy accidents and emergent technologies.

I live on the East Coast of the US where I keep an active studio practice with JK Keller.
 See fromktoj.com for excerpts of joint process and collaborative works.

Bio: Designer and artist Keetra Dean Dixon divides her time between public installations, exhibits, lecturing and commercial projects. She has been recognized on several fronts including a US presidential award, a place in the permanent design collection at the SFMOMA, and the honorable ranking of ADC Young Gun. She has been featured in numerous publications and exhibits, including feature articles in Etapes Magazine and commissioned works for the ’09 U.S. Presidential Inauguration and the ’12 Olympic games. Dixon has held solo exhibits at the Kessel Kramer Gallery: KKOutlet, shown at the Walker Art Center & the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. In 2013 Dixon will be a featured speaker at TYPO SF and partaking in INCONGRUOUS, a residency for brazen experimentation in design practices at the NYC Museum of Arts and Design.

Keetra current lives in NYC. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Minneapolis College of Art + Design in 1999 and a Masters of Fine Arts from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2006.

Work: Keetra Dean Dixon straddles a wide set of mediums in her playful and process-oriented work. With a foothold in graphic design, she often reaches into speculative terrain including experiential work, installation, and sculpture. By leveraging emergent technologies and shortcomings in ubiquitous creative tools Dixon evolves form and integrates discovery into the design process. Her projects are spurred on by the fallibility of communication and attempts to connect. By utilizing the flicker between concise communication and confusion, Dixon hopes to provide surprising and mesmerizing moments in the discord between intention, action and interpretation.
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source: almanaquepp2010

Keetra Dean Dixon é uma fantástica artista plástica da atualidade e nas imagens abaixo você confere parte de seu último projeto, “Just Between you and me”.
Os objetos que normalmente são utilizados por apenas uma pessoa, ela transformou e mostra a co-dependência que esses produtos tem e impactam em nossas vidas se pensarmos nas pessoas que amamos.