The afterbody is an important structural component located at the rear of the fuselage of a ship or aircraft that enhances the stability and controllability of the body. Kim expands on this notion and proposes a literal rendering of the “afterbody” as something that penetrates the physical body and transcends the boundaries of existence.

This performance can be said to exist inside the Wi-Fi signal of a cell phone, the “Android 9707.” A pre-existing performance (data) and the actual performance in front of our eyes are connected; therefore, it can be regarded as the materialization of existing data. Android 9707, an electromagnetic wave traveling at the speed of light, is represented as a familiar symbol, while at the same time it is physically reenacted through the act of the performer.

In today’s world, where hyper-connectivity has become the norm, electromagnetic waves transmit objects to us that are recorded as data. However, data traveling at the speed of light obliterates any longing, curiosity, doubt, and hesitation towards the physical body, setting its absence as the default mode. This performance reflects on virtual connections, juxtaposing a performance that already exists in data with one that takes place in front of our eyes, revealing the previously invisible boundary between an existence in data and an existence in reality.