WANRONG ZHU

Foul Chimera is an immersive interactive performance that unveils the fluidity and fragmentation of individual identity within a high- tech society through artificial intelligence, physical embodiment, live performance, and virtual reality technology. Utilising the actors' performances and audience interaction, the work creates an experimental "third space" at the intersection of the virtual and the real, probing the deconstruction of self-awareness. Within this interaction, audiences are manipulated and transformed by technology, gradually "mutating" into digital alien creatures and flowers—a symbol of post-humanist identity modification and dissolution.

The characters signify the intergenerational transmission and decay of identity, while the imagery of formalin and decaying fluids metaphorically represents the fragility and uncontrollability of the self under technological control. This work explores the fluidity and instability of self-identity amid technological intervention, exposing how, in a post-humanist future, identities are continuously "remodelled" into fluid, virtual landscapes, ultimately moving toward deconstruction and destruction.