The Body is Present (2019)
The Body is Present (2019)
Live Virtual Reality Performance, VR Chat.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Open Studio.
“Our bodies simultaneously exist in two realities, internally and externally, experiencing and being experienced.”
In today’s society, technology is so often pulling us away from each other. This piece uses virtual reality to create an intimate setting in a virtual world through a reiteration of Marina Abramović’s ‘The Artist is Present’. The work explores what it means to be physically present in one space while being psychologically present in another. It relies on the viewer's presence to inhabit these virtual bodies and gain new perspectives on human connection in digital spaces.