The project Чули? Чули (Chuly? Chuly), translating from Ukrainian as “Have you heard? We’ve heard/Have you felt it? We've felt it”, merges performative video gameplay with choreography to delve into manipulative narratives and the embodiment of online personas. It engages with narratives shaped by human-led troll farms and AI, anchored in a speculative story from a woman who once saw giants. Her narrative, twisted by ChatGPT to reflect online misinformation tactics, indirectly guides the player through the environment, yet never reveals the discussed cave and giants. This work looks at today's giants—enormous, planetary, interconnected, and mostly invisible entities; AGIs, pandemics, secret weapons, and disinformation itself; some engineered and run by humans, others self-materializing, shapeshifting. 

By setting expectations for perfection with AAA-game-like realistic worlds, the project intentionally subverts these expectations by working with the limitations of inertial motion capture suits. The susceptibility of these suits to electromagnetic interference becomes a core part of the choreography. The dancer's movements, distorted by the suit's gradual calibration loss, create choreography that embraces digital imperfection, disentangling the digital persona from its body, and exploring errors as part of liveness. 

Eventually, the dancer and player exchange the motion capture suit band for a game controller, inverting their roles. Now the player becomes a calibrated Non-Player Character, even though the rest of the MoCap body is left behind, while the dancer takes control of the world camera. This purposeful acceptance of technological imperfections blurs the distinctions between player, performer, and NPC, crafting a complex narrative that encourages reflection on the intricacies of XR entanglement, roles, identity, and the portrayal of the digital self online.