Obsession is a performative intervention in public space that renders the body as a carrier of digital fixation. Performers move through urban environments while remaining absorbed in their mobile screens. Gestures emerge from states of suspension — scrolling, typing, posing, freezing — forming a physical score of digital self-staging.
Public space becomes a site of paradoxical intimacy: although physically present, the performers’ perception remains trapped within virtual interfaces. Proximity is simulated while surroundings and social relations fade into the background. The choreography explores this tension between presence and absence, control and surrender.
An overstimulating sound layer composed of notification tones, fragmented voices, and electronic noise condenses the situation into a field of sensory pressure. Sound operates as a structural force that rhythmizes the performers’ bodies and makes audible the psychic strain of constant connectivity.
Obsession approaches the screen-bound body not as an individual condition but as a symptom of an attention economy in which visibility functions as currency and self-presentation becomes a social imperative.
