Monitoring is a 50-hour durational live/digital performance presented as an installation in which performers appear from their domestic spaces through laptop cameras and are reconfigured on plexiglass walls, multi-screen projections, and monitors into a rhizomatic system without fixed perspective. The work begins with performers enacting scenes from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House within the installation, before transitioning to their own homes, where the performance continues through the lens of Skype, shifting the theatrical space from stage to domestic interior. The installation remains open day and night, allowing audiences to witness performers living in front of the camera, sometimes even falling asleep overnight, blurring the line between performance and everyday life. In Monitoring [Tehran], the work expands into the city itself, activating citizens as performers and extending the investigation of surveillance, liveness, and digital presence across the shifting boundaries of public and private space. 

Monitoring