The work explores the experience of the pandemic(COVID-19) not as a health-related event, but as a mechanism for training the body in obedience. It focuses on the tension between the desire for contact and its internalized avoidance.

Through an interactive setting, the audience is invited to engage in a simple gesture: touch. This act, however, is transformed into a continuously deferred experience. Each attempt at contact is accompanied by signals and instructions that appear necessary.

Within this environment, the rules are neither entirely clear nor do they cease to operate. Instead, they are transformed into a chain of small acts of compliance, through which the body learns to regulate itself without direct enforcement.

Contact is never explicitly forbidden, yet it is never truly allowed. It remains in a state of suspension, where desire coexists with hesitation.

In the final stage, the framework is withdrawn and the participant is invited to decide without guidance.

The work investigates how regulations are inscribed onto the body and what remains when restriction is no longer imposed, yet continues to operate as habit.

Idea, Concept, Performance: Anthi Stasinou
Technical Design: Anthi Stasinou, Adonis Georgas, Christos Triantafyllis