Performative Digital bodies (2022-now)

Performative Digital Bodies: Desire, Labor, and Exhaustion derives from my previous project, Digital Landfill, which investigates the image culture on social media to understand this generation's paradoxical urge to perform while feeling utterly exhausted. While Digital Landfill circles around the need to play "dead," this project explores the other side of the spectrum. Performative Digital Bodies gathers images of bodies actively performing for the Internet. Observing the labor where we work and alter our bodies stimulated by the desire to be wanted and seen. I will reflect and reimagine the oddly erotic and voyeuristic relationship between images, producers and consumers in digital space through various art mediums, including Gifs, Experimental Videos, VR space, New Media Installation, and Film essays.

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Work It (In Progress)
GIF, Experimental Video, Motion Graphic

Work It is a series of GIFs created with different bodies performing the same act. Depict the urge to perform and the compulsion to see the new, but eventually only produce variations of the same. These bodies become gears, engines, and fuel to the never-stopping digital content production. They lure us with glamor, vitality, and positivity like propaganda or ads.