The Physicality of the Internet

Performance 

Beijing, China

June 20^th  2015

“Let’s Get Physical, Physical Internet” is an underground experimental performance, in conjunction with the exhibition Wang Wang Wang 网网网 at I: Project Space gallery.

We often forget the physicality of the Internet and our reliance on it’s servers around the world.  The Internet is as physical as our ability to access it.  How have we come to depend on it?  How does it comfort us?  How does it agitate us?  How does location affect our ability access to it?  How do we use it to fulfill our material needs?  How does it preserve our own physicality?

By plugging in and tuning out, the use of displaced sounds, awkward movements, annoying selfies, questionnaires and found online audio, explores the Internet and all it’s obvious and subtle nuisances in relationship to the physicality of it