The Body is Present (2019)
The Body is Present (2019)
Live Virtual Reality Performance, VR Chat.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Open Studio.
In today’s society, technology is so often pulling us away from each other. Through a live virtual reality performance, ‘The Body Is Present’ creates an intimate setting in a virtual world hosted by VR Chat to explore what it means to be physically present in one space while being psychologically present in another. Phelan, in another physical space in the gallery, awaits the second digital body to be inhabited by her viewer, where they meet for the first time in an intimate virtual space to gain new perspectives on human connection in digital environments, their bodies simultaneously existing in two realities, internally and externally, experiencing and being experienced.
