A public 24-hour act of doing nothing: non-action is contrasted with external influences, reversing the roles within the context of art. In “ILLUMINATED NOTHING”, performer Emilia Vogt spends 24 hours in a publicly visible room doing nothing except basic life-sustaining needs like sitting, standing, drinking, using the toilet, etc. Seven lights in the room can be controlled via an interactive website, called illuminatednothing.de. The performance is viewable on-site and via live stream worldwide.

Emilia Vogt (born 1997 in Dresden) is a performance and multimedia artist studying Time-based and Interactive Media Arts at the University of Arts Linz since 2020. Her work explores themes such as the body, its environment, time and duration, intimacy, and confrontation, often creating interactions with the audience or public spaces. She has participated in Ars Electronica Festival 2022 and 2023, Most Wanted Music Festival 2022 in Berlin, TIME OUT .12 at AEC, Raumschiff Linz, and the gallery Die Forum in Wels.

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