Korzo Zaal
The Impossibility of Invisibilty
| Makers: | Stelios Manousakis |
| Performers | Stelios Manousakis |
| Direction | Lisenka Heijboer Castañón & Peter Leung |
| Duration | 60 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?
Creator Stelios Manousakis, voice artist Stephanie Pan, dancer and movement artist Paolo Yao, and lighting designer Pavla Beranová present you this performance. They 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 & Peter Laung, 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.
Peter Leung
Peter is a stage director and choreographer with a background in dance. His stage direction is deeply rooted in the relationship between the body, space, and others. Music lies at the core of his creative work, serving as a universal language that bridges the disciplines he engages with.
In recent years, Peter has explored a diverse range of projects, including music theatre, opera, virtual reality, and dance. He is fascinated by the evolution of art forms—examining their origins while embracing the possibilities of the future. His approach enables artists to transcend boundaries while maintaining a sense of ownership and purpose.
Interdisciplinary work has become a key focus, which can be seen by his recent projects exploring the intersection of AI and dance; family performances for Philharmonie Luxembourg and Theater Münster; and work with a diverse range of musicians.
Pavla Beranová
Pavla is an independent light designer based in Prague, working mainly in Czech Republic and the Netherlands. She graduated from Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (Curatorship of new media and design). During her studies she was an intern at the research centre of French museums C2RMF and Lumieres studio Odile Soudant in Paris. From 2011 till 2015 she worked as designer at ACT lighting design in Brussels, where she participated in many large-scale projects in the fields of event, installation and architecture. Since 2016 she has been teaching light design at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Pavla ́s main focus is now on contemporary dance and theatre, but she likes to cooperate with architects and designers on projects where light plays a special role.
Concept & composition: Stelios Manousakis
Direction : Lisenka Heijboer Castañón & Peter Leung
Created by : Stelios Manousakis, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Peter Leung, Stephanie Pan, PaoloYao
Sensing technology & interaction design : Stelios Manousakis
Performers : PaoloYao, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan,
Lighting design : Pavla Beranová
Costumes : Stephanie Pan
Production : Stichting Modulus
Co-producers : Korzo Theater, V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media
Funding : Municipality of The Hague
Korzo Zaal