Making art to connect strangers 🎨 Ivan Cash, Director of “A Social Distance”

An interview with Ivan Cash, an interactive artist, filmmaker, and director of “A Social Distance” hosted by Bailey and Maggie. Ivan Cash’s people-driven art projects—emails transcribed by hand, conversations with strangers on the street, a collection of home videos during a pandemic—break a social code and take us below the surface-level. These collaborative projects are a part of Ivan Cash’s creative DNA. He creates art as a vehicle for connection and hopes to shift our culture, making benevolence towards strangers the norm. We talk with Ivan about how personal pain points can transform into superpowers, how he turns ideas into action, and how to craft a collaborative project so that it is exciting to participants and press.