TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

How can performance art challenge societal taboos and censorship while exploring the fluidity of identity and fantasy? As a nonbinary trans woman, DJ, and performer, I use AI video generation in real time in front of the audience and integrate BDSM and fetish practices into my DJ sets to investigate these questions. Through my work, I want to highlight representation biases in generative AI, and how projection of taboos and societal fears underlies the policing and exclusion from public visibility of marginalized bodies, practices and eroticisms.

I practice needle play or domination to foster a sense of presence, both for me and for the audience. These acts evoke a duality: vulnerability and empowerment. I aim to transform club spaces into sites of introspection and connexion, subverting expectations of escapism. A key element of my work involves live AI models transforming and resignifying my body into glitched yet evocative reinterpretations oscillating between abstraction, gender-bending eroticism, and fantasy, while often flirting with algorithmic content flagging. I also question the audience status by inviting them to be part of a D/S dynamic with me, creating spaces that are intimate and transgressive. This has included offering toys and sextoys for direct physical interaction with me or symbolically allowing them to use AI prompts to alter representations of my body, shaping what they want to see.

My work consistently explores the relationship between the body and its representation, algorithmic biases and power dynamics. How do marginalized bodies navigate systems of censorship and control? What happens when human desires and discomforts are mediated through artificial intelligence and technology in general? By resignifying nudity and intimatacy, and creating participatory experiences, my work provokes dialogue about agency, the gaze, and the limits of embodiment in the digital age, and raises critical questions about the limits of representation and agency in both digital and physical realms.