Habits from Hyperconnected Solitude

My Practice as Research across the COVID-19 pandemic focused on the relations between smart assistants, wellbeing apps, algorithms and habits through my projects You Are Not Done Yet (2020) and Are You Done? (2021). My works were performative responses to solitude that explored the frictions between humans and non-humans and highlighted solitude as a mental health issue. Here I present my work paired with an understanding of habits as actions and 'rituals' inhabiting the hyperconnected intersection of public and private during the COVID-19 pandemic, decomposing the individual into a social body (see also Raunig 2016). In my practice, habits are explored both as authoritative forms of control and, in opposition, as revolutionary forces to the techno capitalist systems that enforce them (Bridle 2018; Noble 2019).