TOUCH MUSEUM

an immersive video installation and youtube channel inspired by A.S.M.R

2015–2016

***Touch Museum,*** Young Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2015-16. From left to right: ***Ancient Hand*** reflected on mirror wall, 1-channel HD video, 3:12m loop, 2015, ***Aftermath***, 1-channel HD video (with mirror reflection), 7:40m loop, 2015, Ancient Hand (on transparent screen) and ***Net Search***, 1-channel HD video, 3:40m loop, 2015

Premiering at Young Projects in Los Angeles in November 2015, Touch Museum combined multiple video installations, an original soundscape by LA-based composer Deru and a Youtube channel featuring videos that examined the perceptual phenomenon known as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR). The exhibition gained widespread attention and was featured in The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Gizmodo, The LAist, L.A. Confidential and on KCRW. Touch Museum was also installed at Eastern Star Gallery in Brentwood, CA in 2016.

Weitz’s videos juxtapose the physical, textural experience of living with the more remote digital universe in which we’re so often immersed. As the installation progresses, the videos become more rooted in the ASMR world while still offering a more universal commentary on sensuality.

Deborah Vankin, The Los Angeles Times

***Touch Museum 2.0,*** Eastern Star Gallery, Brentwood, CA, 2016
From left to right: ***Sole Archaeologist***, 1-channel HD video, 4:24m loop, 2015 and Chains and Body, 1-channel HD video, 5:54m loop, 2015

Self-Portrait Hair Caress, 1-channel HD video (vertical), 4:03m (loop), 2015

The intimacy of the show’s mazelike space and unearthly sounds allowed this simple gesture [hands caress the artist’s long corkscrew curls] to take on a strange, almost illicit sensuality—a horror movie in which no one is murdered but physical suspense radiates throughout.

Andrew Berardini, Artforum