A/PART OF ME navigates the longing and skin hunger for love and touch in the pandemic isolation, worldwide, through the power of correspondence. 

To create this project, we held an open call for letters of love, loss, and longing in the COVID-19 lockdown, which gathered 349 submissions from all over the world in as little as seven days. 

In this digital publication, we have curated the letters that embody a collective tactile memory, which overcomes emotional distance, physical borders, and the passing of time.

Some of the most significant messages received are borne by sculptures reminding that feelings triggered by touch in our bodies and brains create unbreakable emotional bonds.

Our aim is to translate this collective voice of loneliness into a hopefully sustainable avenue for people to find healing in the togetherness digital mediums and art can offer. ⠀

A/PART of Me was created within the residency ARTISTS ROOMS in April and May 2020, in Berlin. The entire project can be seen here https://www.fundatia9.ro/proiect/apart-of-me

©Ioana Cristina Casapu & Ileana Pascalau


A/PART OF ME - A PROJECT BY IOANA CRISTINA CASAPU AND ILEANA PASCALAU

“Heart Beats – A Memoir of The Millennial Generation on Social Media” is a deep X-ray of the Millennial Generation, a vivid depiction of the way Social Media has re-wired the way we think, feel, love, act and connect with each other in our relationships, friendships, daily lives and in our work.

Written by the time the author was 21 before Facebook had become the giant social network it is today, Heart Beats captures the end of an era: the exact moment when social networks protruded into the Millennial generation's life and changed the history of connection as we know it. This body of work has an underlying love story as a theme, developed within the lives of the many characters who hustle their way through post-university jobs, in advertising agencies, and in cafes in European cities, painting an evergreen picture of the young clubbing culture and the dating culture just before Tinder disrupted sex and courtship. 

A psychologically charged memoir, which bridges or breaks the connections between its characters through Social Media mishaps, Heart Beats manifests the way our lives have profoundly changed as of the end of the 1990s, with the rise of modern communication technology.

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