Ask Me a Question, 2022

Interactive multimedia performance, 60 min
Original musical score by Walad

Ask Me a Question is as much a social experiment as it is a performance. It examines how social media reshapes our attention span and our capacity for real-life interaction, and explores questions of vanity, selfhood, and self-representation in contemporary life.

The performance centres on a large screen that conceals me as the performer. For sixty minutes, I execute a continuous jump rope workout, live, while my projected image is subjected to a rotating series of Instagram-style filters. A countdown timer keeps the audience oriented throughout. Viewers are invited to participate: via an online platform, they can anonymously type questions that appear projected on the large screen facing them. This opens the performance to an unpredictable range of exchanges, repositioning the audience as both spectators and co-performers — and ultimately dissolving the distinction between the two.