Imagine every movement you make, every action you take, even in your own home, being tracked by an invisible sensing grid. Would you behave, or would you revolt?
Welcome to The Impossibility of Invisibility, where music, movement, and theatre prepare you for a future in which privacy is rapidly disappearing. With the recent development of Wi-Fi sensing technology, Wi-Fi signals can now be used to extract nearly every detail about you: from your emotional state to your social life, from your vital functions to your behaviour. How desirable is constant connectedness when it comes at such a cost?
Voice artist and creator Stephanie Pan, dancer and movement artist Paolo Yao, and lighting designer Pavla Beranová transform Wi-Fi sensor data into an immersive world of sound, dance, revelation, and reflection. Slowly, it becomes palpable how Wi-Fi sensing can shape our behaviour—yet also how we might resist it before it’s too late. Drawing you through utopian, dystopian, and realist scenarios, the work puts the myth of technology as progress to the ultimate test.
Credits & Crew
Concept & composition: Stelios Manousakis
Direction : Lisenka Heijboer Castañón & Peter Leung
Created by : Stelios Manousakis, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Peter Leung, Stephanie Pan, PaoloYao
Sensing technology & interaction design : Stelios Manousakis
Performers : PaoloYao, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan,
Lighting design : Pavla Beranová
Costumes : Stephanie Pan
Production : Stichting Modulus
Co-producers : Korzo Theater, V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media
Funding : Municipality of The Hague