FLUID IDENTITIES is a design intervention that manifests in the form of a DIY-service Fluid Mask and a public initiative. Together, this work invites people to engage with the mask as a mass-produced symbol and a site for individualized customization and performance. This initiative interrogates the centralization and interconnectedness of surveillance capitalism as well as contemporary identity overload, all the while recognizing fluidity to be a presumed agentic human condition and a widely-acceptable social factor.

  
As the main artifact, the Fluid Mask is a physical interactive face interface that contains 1 window and 2 displays to give people agency altering between representations of identities. Directly confronting society’s entry points, it first looks at identity's context-specific fluid legibility that reduces the whole set of personal identification data into the partial and only presents these parts as necessary and sufficient within themselves. Apart from that, it also mediates the larger ontological concept of fluidity as a vessel into daily interactions by isolating out the respective “identity signals”, using self-expressions to confront the utilitarian sense of identification.

  
Along with the mask, the Fluid-Identities Initiative also proposes a Manifesto that states the following - In a society where biopolitics deprives individuals of the inherent right to identity’s self-autonomy and where people are punished for not seeking enhancements, the intervention of fluid identities breaks the widely presumed normalizations by deconstructing labels and dichotomies. Above all, it recognizes identities to be fragmented yet authentic, and incomplete but sufficient.

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