Project Description Since industrialization, the human body has been bound to efficiency and discipline. Today, autonomous driving and AI technologies design not only how we work, but also how we rest. Within such a technological environment, this project approaches ‘rest’ not as mere recovery, but as a turning point of perception—an opening to a different way of sensing the world. The landscape emerges only through rest, not as a reward for productivity, but as an experience in which body and mind awaken anew. Relax + Motion + Effect is an interactive installation that invites audiences to inhabit a modular space modeled after an autonomous vehicle interior. In comfortable postures—reclining, lying down—they encounter shifting sensory states. Landscapes evoking forms of nature unfold across the space, while visuals respond organically to the body’s movement and stillness. Here, the screen is not something to be watched, but a medium through which the body itself experiences the sensation of rest. In this blurred threshold between working and resting, our senses are cordially reactivated and reassembled. The project experiments with how our bodies and perceptions are reshaped under technological conditions. Senses are not fixed within the individual, but organized through external systems—of which rest, too, becomes a part. Amid landscapes where the boundary between real and virtual dissolves, audiences become aware of how deeply technology has defined their bodies and learn anew “how to feel.” Rest here is not simply stopping, but a chance to recover overlooked senses and rediscover oneself. About the Creator Gijeong Goo + Seongil Choi work collaboratively across design, performance, and human–machine interfaces, interpreting the relationship between bodily perception and technological environments from multiple perspectives. Their practice focuses on how the interactions of senses, movement, and technology can recalibrate perception—going beyond the simple act of operating or controlling machines to realize the experiential dimensions that technology can open up. Relax + Motion + Effect, their first project with ZER01NE, posits itself as an experiment in rethinking both the philosophy of embodied perception and the narrative potential embedded in technological environments.

Curator's Note The body is no longer merely a “means of mobility.” With technological development, we find ourselves more attuned not to the act of moving, but to the sensory shifts that arise from stillness. The motionless state that autonomous driving introduces is not simply about efficiency or convenience; it generates an entirely new sensory terrain. As Marshall McLuhan argued, technology both extends the senses and disrupts existing perceptual systems. Our bodies and perceptions are rearranged through technological extension, and the layers of life itself are recalibrated beyond prior modes of recognition. Yet this static condition does not automatically translate into “rest.” In today’s climate, where both rest and productivity are captured by the language of self-optimization, the boundary between resting and working has grown increasingly faint. Relax + Motion + Effect is a participatory installation that explores this sensory recalibration. Instead of driving, the audience is invited into postures of rest—lying down, reclining—gestures of comfort. Within a static environment, the body drifts, its subtle motions linked to optical and spatial devices that trigger immersive visuals. As participants sit or recline before the screen, forms of nature slowly emerge, gradually sharpening into landscapes. Yet even this act of stillness begins to feel like a process of production: rest mutates into labor, and labor dissolves once more. For Bernard Stiegler, technology is not simply a tool that extends human capacity, but a process of exteriorizing sensation itself, reshaping the very structure of perceptual subjectivity. Perception, in this sense, is no longer a pure inner experience but a flow organized through technological systems. Relax + Motion + Effect makes this condition visible: technology does not merely replace movement; it conditions sensation and rearranges the subject of sensation. Under the theme of a ‘layered life,’ the work asks whether rest—absorbed today as a resource for productivity and creativity—can ever be truly restful. As Hartmut Rosa reminds us, rest is not the cessation of speed but a form of resonance with the world. Layers of life, then, may not lie in rest secured by control, but in the moments where sensation meets the world beyond it. The installation operates as a sensory training device. Within the slow unfolding of natural imagery, the audience rediscovers—or fails to rediscover—the erased boundaries between the natural and the artificial, the active and the passive. What unfolds is not simply a reproduction of rest, but an experience of returning the body to the empty time and space deliberately engineered by technology, and in doing so, filling it anew. Here the body ceases to be functional, and sensation ceases to act as a mere instrument. Technology does not erase sensation but provokes us to question it, allowing sensation to reappear in a new form. Thus, the work interrogates how sensation is divided, recalibrated, and—crucially—whose body it is designed around. Technology is never neutral; the reconfiguration of sensation is always a political act. Relax + Motion + Effect reconsiders the differences in a life structured around car ownership and mobility once driving itself has been removed. By experimenting with the invisible technology of autonomous driving, the project asks how our bodies and senses are being reconstituted. Within a state of stillness, what does the body remember, and how might sensation re-emerge? Here, movement and rest are no longer just postures or gestures but acts of learning how to “feel again” within the politics of sensation.