It has been 40 years since Donna Haraway declared, in A Cyborg Manifesto, that the boundaries separating human from animal, and organism from machine, were collapsing. The statement felt radical at the time, but today it has become a given that bodies are permeable to technology. What is less apparent is what happens to desire when this permeability becomes infrastructural. As bodies grow increasingly enmeshed with screens—tethered to devices that mediate not only communication but sensation itself—affect is undergoing a corresponding transformation. Shao Chun’s Inner Beads (2025), commissioned for “Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud” at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun, takes this curious reorganization of desire as both subject and form: rather than representing networked longing, the work performs it, staging the way pleasure and intimacy now disperse across platforms that render them ambient, fluid, and profoundly strange.