The Conversation
2021-2061
The Conversation is a conscious record of the verbalized exchange between the subjects, Chow and Lin, conducted in passages of our adult lives. It reflects on the impermanence and imperfection of being, within lines of continued discourse in human memory. An intimate distance is framed within a technological structure, which captures moments of conviction, contemplation, fragility, and tenderness.
In this first chapter, we sit across each other and speak for 12 hours, on a day in December 2021. The conversation duration references daily cycles of time measurement traced back to ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. At the transitory age of 41 years old, we respond as beings in our individual capacities and relational identities as artistic and life partners. The topics cross personal and societal reflections on love, personal values, art, identity, capitalism, colonialism, truth and justice...
Capsules of our cognitive basis will be extracted for the next 40 years, hopefully, as according to our respective life expectancies.
This process stops, when one of us passes on.
The work also deliberates on knowledge accumulation and contextual interpretation. Of multiple communication modalities, words are most commonly preserved in text formats. Their embodied meanings serve us in the generational and present transfer of information under the assumption of language synchroneity. In presenting the work, we engage artificial intelligence tools in the extraction of data and content from online historical and real-time text repositories to understand the connection of our thoughts with the flow of human consciousness.
The Set
