• Year : 2025

• Title : No Play After 20 Years

• Media : Performance in Online Game

• Statement :

  This is a re-enactment of my own performance art project, “No Play Today”, in 2005. Both performances were also conducted in a multiplayer online game called “Anarchy Online”. To re-enact what my last avatar did, I dance at the same places after 20 years.

Here is the artist statement copied from my reenacted work, “No Play Today”:"

Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) is an environment in which players are used to fight, aim at equipping the most powerful weapons and armors, and become as stronger and richer as possible. Players somehow earn their social states during the time. In October 2005, Alenila on and on kept dancing in the Temple of the Three Winds dungeon in Anarchy Online. There is the most crowded battlefield where players are fighting fiercely. Dancing is definitely not supposed to be a normal behavior there. During the time of performance, I always received other players’ queries. For example, someone asked me, “ehm, alenila what are you doing in totw? except for dancing i mean.” I also encountered another interesting response. A player came to dance with me.