Digital ubiquity complicates our lived experiences and blurs our identities. We often construct and perpetuate digital replicas of ourselves by distributing them in immaterial pseudo-social networks - we are, in effect, inhabitants of the digital landscape.

Crucially, though, our transfer of ourselves into the digital realm brings about a damaging, distorting transformation; we no longer maintain our physical bodies, but become flattened, mutated reflections. However, in the very nature of digitally storing and transmitting our memories, thoughts and ideas, perhaps our spirit - our identity - survives this intermediary transmission, perpetuating itself and acquiring ‘virtual immortality’.

Perhaps, through this idea of ‘virtual immortality,’ we have succeeded in understanding the ancient cosmological concept of the afterlife, in which a person's spirit and soul - the essence of their self - transcends their material body. -transcend their material bodies. As a result, we began to consider whether the absurdity of digital possibilities might more broadly reinforce or subvert religious and traditional cultures.

This absurd, paradoxical notion of ‘virtual immortality’ is told through recorded non-verbal theatre performances, where notions of materiality and life are expressed through costumes and objects, and immaterial notions of the digital are translated using mirrors - both clear and fuzzy, lights, and projections. projections.

I acted as art director and completed some of the art scenes, props, and lighting.