Me and The Machine

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WHEN WE MEET AGAIN  
(INTRODUCED AS FRIENDS)  
 
by Me and The Machine  
 
 
“When I first met you, you could see me but I couldn’t see you…”, the invisible woman 
recounts.  
 
When We Meet Again is a wearable film and one-to-one performance, a bizarre 
sensuous experience featuring you, your invisible friend, a 3D soundtrack, an old 
forgotten dance, an ocean, a flavour and me.  
 
Video filmed from a first person perspective is played on video goggles, replacing your 
point of view by that one of a performer in the screen. When you are prompted to look 
down upon your body, what you see is… someone else’s. The brain is tricked into the 
illusion of being inside a new body and in a foreign space, through which you move and 
encounter mysterious invisible presences (aka, the live performer who interacts with 
you). The body-swapping illusion is enhanced by synchronized tactile and gustative 
stimuli throughout the live performance. 
 
When We Meet Again is an outlandish voyage through meetings mediated by 
technology, blinded by vision, displaced by what you hear around you and you know it is 
not really there. The viewer is transported into a mixed reality between the ambiguous 
physicality of the screen, the ghostly realm of an invisible live performer, the virtual that 
feels real and vice-versa.  
 
With its live approach to film-viewing, this piece is a reflection on how the mediation of 
audiovisual technology can shape human and social interactions and on the function 
(and de-function) of the body in our media inundated times. 
 
 
When We Meet Again promo image 
Photo by Chloe Ducharne 
 
 
 
When We Meet Again viewer 
Photo by Clara Garcia Fraile 
 
 
When We Meet Again dancing with participant 
Photo by Sam Pearson
BIOGRAPHY 
 
 
Me and the Machine is Clara García Fraile (Spain) and Sam Pearson (UK).  
 
Through film, performance, text and interactive media, our work suggests imaginary and 
often bizarre situations in which the audience is invited to step in and play: play a role, 
play along, play an old forgotten song, play a game, 'play'.   
 
We met while studying Performance and Visual Art at the University of Brighton, where 
we graduated in 2008. Since then, our work has been showcased in film, dance, visual 
and live art platforms, such as National Review of Live Art, Brighton Festival and In-
Presentable (La Casa Encendida).  
 
We currently live and work in Brighton (UK), where we are supported artists of The 
Basement. 


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