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After F A G G O T S, Tibau Beirnaert & Laurens Aneca are ready for a new collaboration. In Zero Feet Away, they look at what impact dating apps have on the experience of intimacy and relationships.

They do so from the perspective of an alien who yearns for human contact and tries to find it through online dating. The creature transforms into various human guises to experience as many connections as possible, but finds that the digital platforms meant to connect only lead to more emptiness, isolation and loneliness.

With Zero Feet Away, Tibau & Laurens aim to explore how, despite our constant attempts to connect through technology, we often sink even deeper into loneliness. The performance presents itself as an invitation to reflect on the value of genuine, meaningful relationships in an age where we are often ‘zero feet away’ from potential connections, yet seem further away than ever from real connection.