A performance that asks, ‘How do the virtual and tangible intersect in our consideration of time, experience, and geography?’ 

V I R T U A L G E O G R A P H I E S is a conceptual collaboration between Lizzy Tan and Carly Lave, two American artists based in London and Berlin. The performance used live-stream video streamed from Berlin to London with concurrent performances in each city.  

V I R T U A L G E O G R A P H I E S presents a framework of four different spaces: cyberspace, conceptual space, experiential space, and physical geography. Through choreography and digital and virtual technologies, these spaces are presented as zones of communication and interaction for a live audience. In the age of digital technologies, we occupy many spaces – media platforms, memories, and communities – that are both intangible yet crucial to ground our sense of belonging. The prevalence of modern media brings into question the human relationship to our natural environment, the Earth, and how the human body draws energy and meaning from our organic vs. digital world. V I R T U A L G E O G R A P H I E S links our topographical sense of home to 21st-century forms of connection and digital embodiment of self.