Insight Job is about moments of dressing. Here, the antique boundary between ζωή (Life as a living being; bare life) and βίος (Life as a way of life) is manifested by thin membranes of textile or make-up. To dress is to step into βίος, to locate oneself in a complex socio-economic landscape where life  becomes political. Under the costume is a naked, isolated, delocalised body, waiting to seek connection to the world around. 

As bodies are brutally rendered docile by global capitalistic structures, clothes and persona also become mass-produced. The boundary between ζωή and βίος has dissolved, so has the membrane, for biopolitics invades even the most private areas of life. Dressing is stripped down to be a technologies of the self with which the apparent individuation comes simultaneously with the submission to higher structures of power. 

The reactions by the young protagonists is a desperate attempt (almost nostalgic) of defiance. On the threshold of adulthood, the act of dressing is an arms race for any possible demarcation. Underlying the testing of limits is a subtle fear for exclusion or isolation, accompanied by the slow realisation of defeat: The mask has melted and merged with the body.

Text by Hou Ching