Touch & Control

2016

# Video
# Performance
# Costume
# Poster

The button is the tangible mediator that help people communicate with mechanical devices. However, mostly this kind of communication is unidirectional. We always in the dominant position and place command. By pressing the button, our physical action changes the different result in the virtual world. The performance is about Identity replacement between human and machine. It is an interesting start to explore the relationship between control and being controlled.

Everyone is being controlled by the intensive social pressure. Not only an actor or a performance artist, but every individual; a policeman, a hotel stuff, a violinist, a Vogue model; is trying to persuade others to believe in their character. To do this they need to deliver a performance.

The button suit gives me a new identity as a loyal and precise mediator. Wearing the button suit as a remote in real life, I am controlled by my audience. All their commands change my reaction in the parallel virtual world.