Sarah Boo

Virtual Spectres

Virtual Spectres combines scrolling social media feeds with incomplete body scans, situating them together in 3D space. Moving patterns emerge when layers of TikTok footage are superpositioned and the silhouettes of their creators briefly occupy the same time and space, being swiped together and then away. The video ruminates on our existence as cyborgs in a state of the in-between and everywhere. How does it feel to have body-consciousness that is stretched between macro spaces and virtual spaces, duplicated between flesh organs and corporately owned data centers across the world?

“An excerpt from an essay by Madeline Bogoch about the work that resonated with me: "Moving through obfuscated screens arranged like dominoes and travelling through the mouth of a semi-rendered face while a posthuman narrator expresses a specific brand of born-digital loneliness. The psychological malaise and disembodiment that Boo manifests in this infinite limbo is eerily familiar, and what transpires is a haunting reflection of a very contemporary condition." ”