automated pain?

“automated pain?” is a quiet performance about the ability to experience and feel digital stimulus and real life pain via the screen as a sensitive filter.

With “automated pain?”, Sylvain Souklaye distanced himself from the digital world and people for a week.
For eight days, he avoided reading the news, didn’t go on social media. He didn’t talk to anyone.
On day nine, he woke up at 6am, skipped his cup of coffee, opened his laptop, went to The Guardian and discovered the “Epstein affair”…