Arms Reach, 35-minute animation displayed on 20 MicroTiles

Arms Reach depicts a haptic labyrinth in which pain, tactility, and thermoception must be felt to navigate through a series of obstacles. Arms Reach was created during an artist residency with Dreamwalker Dance Company, in which participants from diverse disciplines were guided through empathetic exercises that honed and strengthened proprioception —an automatic neuromuscular sense — offering the artists a new mode of experiencing their bodies’ position, movement, and force. The artist would like to acknowledge the work of Katie Ewald, whose choreography inspired many of Arms Reach's haptic elements. The score by musician and composer, Bry Webb.