In conversation with curator and educator Mary Jane Jacob, visual artist Ann Hamilton (b. 1956) talks about care, interactivity, and social relations — key concepts that preoccupy her practice — and why she feels compelled to revisit these issues under the Trump administration. Hamilton was trained in textile design and sculpture, and she received her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1985. Hamilton is internationally renowned for her large-scale, immersive installations that are poetically site-specific, sensorial, and inviting. Her recent piece at the Park Avenue Armory, The Event of a Thread (2012), which is primarily discussed in the interview, is a participatory installation that uses a swings-and-curtains system to “weave” together the physical and social histories of the space.