The B0dy is 0bs0Let3 (2025 work in progress) is a 1-to-1 durational installation performance with a volunterred audience member exploring themes of surveillance, escapism, and disconnection from the body in an age where the internet is both everywhere and inescapable. The performance is set within the nostalgic architecture of an early 2000s chat room, a single audience member is invited into a live chatroom interaction with one performer, while a second performer moves through the space in dialogue with the conversation. This intimate exchange unfolds in real time as the rest of the audience observes. 

A computer screen, a ring light, a contact-mic’d keyboard, and a performer drifting between human and avatar set the scene. The physical body, often absent from digital experience is reintroduced through pole dance, used here not as spectacle but as a physical practice of reconnection. In this context, the pole becomes a strange relic, using somatic movement as a way of remembering the intelligence of the body in a world where it often feels redundant or disconnected.

 

I’m interested in how people surveil each other [i.e. photographing strangers in public, people watching] and what this says about our collective relationship to privacy. This piece also reflects on my memories of finding safety in old chat rooms, and the creeping realization that there is now no true “offline.” The B0dy is 0bs0L3t3 is about holding space to think, feel, watch, and be watched and asking what “liveness” even means when everything is already online.

 

Created by Symoné

Creative Technologist - Yewen Jin

Exhibiting in collaboration with Accept the Cookies

Funded by Immersive Arts