After giving several lectures on zoom through 2020, I recognised that each time I had felt like I had entered an unsettling dissociative space. I had a sense of disconnect both during and after the talk. This was a very different experience to sharing a physical space with an audience.

Looking for a way around this, I realised that one of the possible advantages of zoom over a live talk, in terms of connection, was the fact that the audiences’ view was of a close-up on ones face. This could create intimacy and engagement.

I wanted to blur and extend this digital/analogue, virtual/actual reality of the talk on zoom. I made live interventions with mirrors and reflections as an opening catalyst into the talk.