​​KOIZUMI Meiro is an artist who explores the relationship between the individual and the state/community, and between the human body and emotions, through experimental videos and performances that interweave reality and fiction. His work examines the mechanisms that give rise to feelings of violence and self-sacrifice and allows viewers to relive the emotions of those involved. At Aichi Triennale 2019, he performed a theatrical piece using VR technology, which drew great attention from the art and theater worlds.​​

The VR theater piece Prometheus Bound, which premiered in 2019, created an experience that placed the audience between two extremes: virtual and real, euphoria and awakening, transcendence and limitation of the physical body. The online version of the new VR work, a sequel to the previous work, will be revised and exhibited as Ars Electronica 2021 Garden TOKYO ver. The dreams of young people living abroad as laborers during the pandemic are superimposed on a vision of the future in which humanity is freed from physical suffering. The anxiety of the young people who have nowhere to go is sublimated into the anxiety of the avatars, who are trapped between existence and non-existence, and eventually unfolds as a collective nightmare in the VR space. This theater piece poses a question about how we visualize human beings beyond the experience of the pandemic, when we all had limited contact with others and had to rely on virtual communications.