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DIGITAL DIARY
Loïs Soleil’s cyber-performance, titled “digital diary,” involves the artist interacting with various browser tabs like a DJ or web jockey, using her computer’s tools to create an introduction to her artistic practice. The artist blends various elements such as an “un-creative writing” compilation of Tinder bios, lip-syncing, live writing, self-portraits, GIFs, poetry, “a choir of selves” and other internet performances.
‘Digital diary’ is a cyber-performance that embodies the chaos and fragmentation of the digital age. By juggling multiple browser tabs like a DJ, I embrace the inevitable glitches, distractions, and overlaps that occur when performing live through the web. The performance pulls together “un-creative writing” from Tinder bios, read through Text to Speech, trained in French with my own voice but forced to glitch into English. In this assemblage my identity becomes a collection of digital artifacts, embracing the notion that failure—whether through technical hiccups, shallow online interactions, or fractured self-representation —is central to the digital experience. This performance uses code, my desktop and keyboard shortcuts as an instrument, to experimentally travel through glitching, webcam blurriness, laptop fetishism and gifs noisy images.
Loïs Soleil [BE]
Through digital art, performance, installation, poetry and sound, Loïs Soleil’s artistic practice aims to bridge the emotional and the political by posing intersectional cyber/techno-feminist questions.
Loïs Soleil’s work confronts the everyday sexist structures of the web, its biais algorithms, codes, culture and languages. It explores the relationships between vulnerability, pop culture, voyeurism and desire; often employing self-portraits, internet performances, and poetry to illustrate a female gaze through which sexuality, love, vulnerability and empowerment can be expressed. From the leitmotif of the bedroom, to relationships, everyday rituals and post-dentity writing, the artist’s work is autobiographically direct, raw and emotionally vulnerable in its hyper intimacy. For Loïs Soleil, the personal is political, the private is political.
