| Duration | 75 min |
A world where your router knows more about you than your therapist.
Imagine every movement you make, every action you take, even in your own home, being tracked by an invisible sensing grid. Would you behave, or would you revolt?
Welcome to The Impossibility of Invisibility, where music, movement, and theatre prepare you for a future in which privacy is rapidly disappearing. With the recent development of Wi-Fi sensing technology, Wi-Fi signals can now be used to extract nearly every detail about you: from your emotional state to your social life, from your vital functions to your behaviour. How desirable is constant connectedness when it comes at such a cost?
Voice artist and creator Stephanie Pan, dancer and movement artist Paolo Yao, and lighting designer Pavla Beranová transform Wi-Fi sensor data into an immersive world of sound, dance, revelation, and reflection. Slowly, it becomes palpable how Wi-Fi sensing can shape our behaviour—yet also how we might resist it before it’s too late. Drawing you through utopian, dystopian, and realist scenarios, the work puts the myth of technology as progress to the ultimate test.
The Impossibility of Invisibility was conceived and composed by Stelios Manousakis, directed by Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, and produced by Stichting Modulus: an artist-run interdisciplinary production house that explores what it means to exist together in the twenty-first century.
Stelios Manousakis
Stelios is a composer, sound artist, and interdisciplinary creator who explores the relationships between time, space, body, system, and sound. His work is physical yet intellectual and always investigative, balancing immediate sensory experience with complexity and depth. His artistic focus lies in music, art, philosophy, science, and technology. For the past fifteen years, he has been exploring the impact, side effects, and hidden properties of communication infrastructures such as Wi-Fi. Stelios’ work has been performed on international stages such as ZKM, Ars Electronica, Rewire Festival, Museo Reina Sofía, National Gallery of London, IDFA, The Place, De Nationale Opera, and O. Festival.
Lisenka Heijboer Castañón
Director Lisenka Heijboer Castañón is a rising star in contemporary opera and music theatre. She is known for her innovative and transformative approach, addressing urgent feminist and activist issues in socially engaged ways. For one of her recent productions – The Gospel According to the Other Mary – by John Adams and Peter Sellars at the Volksoper and Wiener Festwochen, she received the prestigious Götz Friedrich Prize for outstanding directing.
Stephanie Pan
Stephanie is a voice artist, composer, interdisciplinary creator, performer, and curator based in The Hague. Her work is rooted in the notion of pure communication: finding a form of contact with the audience that is stripped of social expectations, distractions, and the limits of language. Her practice is an ever-evolving blend of theatre, performance art, experimental music, improvisation, controlled chaos, pop music, and classical music. It is sensory, passionate and intense, and pushes the boundaries of body and voice.
Paolo Yao
Paolo is an Italian contemporary dancer based in Rotterdam. He has performed in productions by De Stilte, Cie Thor, and Danstheater AYA and collaborates with choreographers such as Arno Schuitemaker, Jan Martens, Connor Schumacher, and Dario Tortorelli. He is also part of Analemma, a club dance ritual for queer people of colour. For Paolo, dance is a language and a dialogue – a way to share connection, transformation, and stories beyond words.
Concept & composition: Stelios Manousakis
Direction : Lisenka Heijboer Castañón
Text : Stelios Manousakis, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan
Sensing technology & interaction design : Stelios Manousakis
Co-director: Peter Leung
Performers : PaoloYao, Stephanie Pan, Stelios Manousakis
Lighting design : Pavla Beranová
Production : Stichting Modulus
Co-producers : Korzo Theater, V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media
Funding : Municipality of The Hague
R&D partners : Intelligent Instruments Lab, University of Iceland; Experimental Music Technologies Lab, University of Sussex
Korzo Zaal