The Application is a transdisciplinary performance piece that transforms the stage into a live laboratory to interrogate digital intimacy, consent, and power dynamics. The work begins in the “digital ether,” using hookup apps and social media to recruit a male participant for a live negotiation of dominance and submission.

By employing an asymmetrical 1:3 performer structure and BDSM-inspired gestures – such as the use of lingerie and makeup – the piece explores how traditional markers of humiliation can be reclaimed as tools for erotic empowerment, as well as to highlight the fluidity of identity as a relational renegotiation between performers and audience. Central to the work is the inherent precariousness of queer connection; by embracing the possibility of “ghosting” or absence, the collective leans into the anxiety of uncertainty.