If the Delivery Girl Is Hot, Wake Me Up

In times of fear, we often turn to lust for comfort. It is an instinctive reaction, one that is inscribed in our senses: the shivering of the skin, the accelerated heartbeats, the wild desire to cling to each other, to confirm that we are still alive. The tricky aspect of the current crisis is that such a bacchanalian closeness in prohibited.

But, how can they police desire?

Based on the above, “If the Delivery Girl Is Hot, Wake Me Up” features a young woman, who walks around the neighborhoods of Athens during the pandemic, and fantasizes love stories with attractive female strangers, as she struggles to cope with the stress and isolation she feels employing humor and eroticism.

Using binaural recording techniques, the work creates an ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) experience. This technique of recording and reproduction is perceived by the human brain as a 3D stereo sound sensation.

Listening through headphones, the audience hear every bit of action as if it were happening around them: whispers, moving objects, speech, soundscapes, melodies. Thus, the listener has the impression that the actors’ voices are personally addressed to them, transporting them to a place between sleep and awakening, which is the ideal condition for fantasizing.

Health issues dominated the discourse during the pandemic, scarcely interrupted by debates on the economy. But how did the young people experience this period? And, also, how did the LGBT+ community experience it? How do fear and confinement effect on lust and sexual desire? Are they inactivated or intensified? An original radio drama driven by an ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) experience, Lotus Eaters’ work aims to transport us to the dreamy world of a young lesbian woman, and her intimate thoughts during the lockdown in Athens, as well as to the next day when at last “bars are open again.”