For most people who were at GayBird’s Fragile! Human Inside performance at Tai Kwun in April 2025, it was impossible to anticipate the many twists and turns that would take place. The 70-minute performance started at the Laundry Steps, with an animation projected next to an installation that resembled a human head, constructed using cardboard boxes as building blocks and screens for eyes, with a gap left for its mouth – altogether roughly five metres in height. An anthropomorphic avian creature rambled on in the animation, steeping the audience in its conspiratorial bent:  “So these organisations aren’t aiming to take away any memory of importance, but just these minor details that are so inconspicuous,” it said. “Nobody even suspects them when something happens.” What followed was a relocation of the entire audience into JC Cube, the heritage and arts complex’s auditorium, where GayBird awaited on a podium above the seats. He views this migration as the audience’s journey into a virtual space, where he orchestrated a performance of light and sound while wearing an Apple …