Performance Lecture: Embodied/Misembodied

Unpacking Movement Through Code, Story, and VR

Join disabled artist Ben Joseph Andrews for a groundbreaking live-coded lecture performance that unpacks the biological and technological anatomies of movement—how they expand, intersect, and fall apart.

Through deeply personal storytelling, Embodied/Misembodied interrogates the promise of “seamless” embodiment in virtual reality, offering a window into Ben’s lived experience with vestibular migraine, a chronic movement processing disorder.

As Ben narrates and codes the piece in real time, a performer on stage wearing a VR headset brings the work to life. Expanding on the artist’s award-winning VR project Turbulence: Jamais Vu, this performance celebrates glitch and jank as a way to understand the beauty and fragility of our ever-moving world.

Presented as part of Biomass. See more ground-breaking works here.