Oasis Dot Wet is a cyber- and hydrofeminist endeavor queering ecologies and data. Resisting essentialist views of gender, the project uses atmospheric conditions—metaphoric weather landscapes—detectable in a person’s crotch as its material. Through moisture sensors embedded in custom panties, the artists harness the natural resources of pleasure, intimacy, and bodily fluids, transforming them into poetic data that tells a story of personal ecosystems and emotional fluidity.

When worn, the sensorial pad measures and tracks data, presenting it as a dynamic 3D world on-screen, facilitating a dialogue with one’s own inner ecology. These fluid readings act as a narrative tool, encoding the body’s subtle expressions into digital landscapes that merge the physical and metaphysical. Accessible as both an installation and a live performance, the work employs storytelling to make the body itself the protagonist.

Grounded in theories around the uses of the erotic, Oasis Dot Wet emphasizes an ethics of pleasure and self-acceptance, giving value to the abject and the fluid realm beyond binaries of subject/object and self/other. By transforming intimacy into a poetic exploration of data, the work challenges traditional perceptions and invites audiences to embrace fluidity in all its forms.

As an intersectional feminist with migration experience , Ivanova has teamed up with three collaborators in the making of this work: Rain Rose (they/them) is a dancer, performer and community organiser; Kaya Zakrzewska (she/her) is a dancer, teacher and performer; both are sex work activists and members of the Berlin Strippers Collective (BSC). Iyo Bisseck (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, interactive designer and programmer.

Presented at the Akademie der Künste in 2023 as part of Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings, the installation featured a 360° virtual 3D projection shaped by e-textile panty humidity data. The virtual landscapes, connected to intimate wearer stories, were accompanied by soundscapes played through shell-sound sculptures. The juxtaposition of the intimate, labor-intensive molding process for the sculptures with advanced digital fabrication techniques underscored the interplay between physical and virtual realms.