Act Like Yourself
2022
in collaboration with Queersar
A performance that reflects on the complexities of our relationships with each other, through our relationships with technology.
There is a fine line between sincerity and superficiality - a fine line between stimulation and listlessness - a fine line between me and you and us and other. I’m having a harder time lately finding the edges of my identity because mostly I just need to meditate or buy more things or be better.
Act Like Yourself was a performance designed for Zoom, for a group of mostly strangers who acted like themselves through a screen.
To start, the view was set to “gallery mode” in Zoom so that each individual shared the same amount of screen space.
We were each watching and being watched.
As the performance continued, we zoomed in to witness my own journey into the fracturing of identity. The pace was slow, but the content was too much to take in, so we must choose where to focus, knowing that we’re missing some of it. Just before we ended, the groups’ own individual identities flashed on the screen, reminding each of us that we’re still here, acting like ourselves.