Clutch (by artist Fiona Carswell), yet another work from the ITP winter show, is:

a set of hand warmers that require the wearers to hold hands in order to stay warm. They are a rebellion against one aspect of self-reliant, survival technology: self-heating winter gloves. By forcing a dependency, the hand-warmers promote both physical as well as emotional security…In the winter, people either keep their hands in their pockets or try to hold hands with bulky gloves that don’t allow the sensation of human touch. Self-warming devices for gloves exist but the emphasize [sic] on self-reliance only increases the gap between human dependencies and technological advances.

The gloves, made of conductive fabric, work by allowing their two wearers to collaboratively complete an electric circuit enabling them to heat:

Each wearer is in fact completing the other person’s circuit. The act of joining hands triggers the heating elements in each person’s respective glove and creates a unit of warmth while still allowing the users to feel the sensation of another person’s hand.