MicroMortality
MicroMortality explores our bodies and the afterlife at a molecular level through a projection mapped installation and microscopic performance. In a world where we are surrounded by AI “grief tech” companies in a thriving AI-driven digital afterlife industry and where chatbots are now “deadbots”, our ability to connect with the deceased is now seemingly more possible than ever before. However, the lack of physicality rendered in these AI interpretations creates a disconnect between the awareness of our own bodies in relation to the deceased. Katina acts as a translator of the afterlife, as she assumes the position of her late father as an enlightened being and investigates the makeup of our existence by making the micro-macro through large-scale projection mapping. This allows the audience to contemplate the relationship with their own physical state of being through direct confrontation with a former life that assumed the state of ash. The performance during the opening of the exhibition featured immersive fixed projections in addition to the live performed microscope projections generated. For the rest of the duration of the exhibition, the immersive projections are fixed for the viewer to experience.