Unseen Dance by A Fellow Artist Friend

This graphic/video work is by Kai QinZhang, a fellow artist and a friend who is completing her MFA this semester MFA at PAFA. When Kai Qin first described what she wanted to accomplish, I was really puzzled. In the beginning, I was uncomfortable with the fact that, I could not use my eyes as they were blind foled. I felt I was lost without the help of my eyes, to see where and what is coming from the other side--that is exactly what Kai Qin intended to do.
The unique subject of this collaboration of video fragments depicting hands touching and searching, gives us a sense of vulnerability and ambiguity, without the help of the eye, we can feel a great deal of weakness.
Indeed we use our eyes to receive and judge information everyday, but do we really see or do we only see what is being presented. Sometimes we can be lying next to a person for 50 years and not knowing who that person really is. A blind person sees more than a person with healthy eyes--I remember always reading that off of somewhere. How often do you touch a person's hand, and what do you intent to do when you touch that hand?
When I watched this video with my boyfriend, as we collaborated on the closing scene, we witnessed the searching, the touching, the connecting and the separating, all of which described the virtue of life. As Kai Qin quoted in her bio-- "you can't predict what will happen next with life, but you can always count on the virtue of life".