Cleo
Démo VR
Information
Cléo integrates Mixed Reality, live dance and drawing. Inspired by Agnès Varda's 1962 film Cléo de 5 à 7, this work reimagines female identity in a digital context — exploring how it is constructed under the constant gaze of social media and virtual worlds. Through the interplay between a real body and a virtual avatar, the performer leads the audience on an inner journey: when Cléo exists under an inescapable digital gaze, how can she recognize her true self?
Credits
Creation & Production
Playwright, Director, and Technical Lead: Coco CHEN
Choreographer and Performer: YEH Yu-Hsuan
Music Producer: Zech CHIU
Programmer: AI Kuei-Hua
Stage Designer: SU He-Feng
Lighting Designer: CHANG Chien-An
Voice Performance: Yélé Traoré
Mentors: Joris Mathieu, Nicolas Boudier
Production Team: Digital Art Foundation
Production Consultant: WANG Po-Wei
Dramaturgical Support: Eartha Yi-chun LIU
Technical Consultant: HUANG Wei-hsuan
Producers: HUANG Shang-jung, HUANG Hui-ting
Project Manager: HSIAO Chia-yi
Sound Production Coordinator: C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab
Preliminary Research & Development Supported by National Taichung Theater’s 2024 LAB X Arts Interdisciplinary Platform – The Young Artist's Atelier
Co-production: National Taichung Theater、Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab
Artist / Studio biography
Coco CHEN is a Taiwanese new media artist working at the threshold of the virtual and the real. Trained in Spatial Design and now rooted in New Media Art, she builds immersive environments that interrogate the entanglement of body, gender, and digital corporeality. Her practice draws on VR, AR, and gamified performance to examine how technology mediates physical perception and reconstructs embodied narratives.