I am here, standing now behind the microphone, downloading the flesh and blood, reciting my oration: “I need a costume that resembles the color of my skin. Let’s Pretend that…” The Becoming Post(er)-Body. TheSmartPerformer.

My work revolves around the human physical body and its complex relationship with the plastic and the virtualbody. I explore the imminent reality of human fantasiesdue to the accelerated progress in technology, and howsuch capabilities might influence socio-political human life.

A non-decayed human body; a metamorphosed plastic play doll in my hand, the result of projecting war scenesfrom TV. These are grounds from which I explore how the dead can come back to the realm of the living.Whether these returns are physically or technologicallymanifested, they represent human rationalization in the face of fantastic (im)possibilities.

I have been fascinated by and have investigated tools that help portray science fiction live on stage. Technology has stood out for me as the most compelling, given its increasingly powerful role as a facilitator of human fantasy and its materialization.

Technological tools, such as lo/high tech sound work andjump-cuts are used in performances, installations and videosto transmit and explore the elements of science fiction that we encounter in real life.

Moreover, and as scientific research proposes that in a few decades our fantasies will no longer be unreasonable, these performances give a glimpse of how sci-fi will inevitably become our reality.

Through my practice, I navigate the grey area between binaries, sometimes embedding deliberate discrepancies within them that alter our perception of physical impossibilities. The performances capture the metamorphosis of the living losing their identity of flesh and blood, as they transform into plastic/virtual/iconic figures.

Do we need to have a performer on stage? Or can we simply substitute it with a SmartPerformer? A Requiem.

We no longer have a body but rather traces, belongings and accessories: a hair, a nail, a bone, a piece of skin. A wig, a glove, a shoe, a microphone. The upgrade?