Overview
The MODEL is a mixed reality performance exploring the relationship between the physical and virtual body — the expansion of identity through avatar embodiment. The industrial revolution shaped a mind-body paradigm that views the body as a means exploited by the mind; VR is our imagination’s newest technological prosthetic, broadening our ability to create forms of presence and labor.
The work explores VR’s ability to change bodies and genders without anatomical intervention. It interrogates our necessity, as biological creatures, for maternal and paternal figures — and the counterpoint between the individual as an autocratic creator versus our innate genetic, historical, and digital inheritance.