Lecture Performance, 14 min, 2022

Cooperation with: Berliner Ringtheater

Courtesy of Asian Performance Artist Lab

Inspired by today’s digital governance in both social and economic senses, I juxtapose the images of individuals whose voices are sadly considered as noise by technical design under the totalitarian governance and under the surveillance capitalism of digital giants. Each side aligns with slightly different political ideologies (capitalist communism and surveillance capitalism), but both lead to social control through technology par excellence. I wonder if this is becoming a new norm that we have to cope with in the digital age, regardless of where we live on Earth. 

The performance poses the following questions: What strategies can be employed in the face of technological surveillance and control? How can we blur the boundaries that machines impose on individuals through previous databases? Who has the right to manipulate the digital platform by categorising “ noise” from “speech”?