The Conversation
2021-2061
The Conversation is a conscious record of the verbalized exchange between the subjects, Chow and Lin, conducted in passages of their 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.
The project engages two forms. In the first, they sat face to face for 12 hours in conversation on a day in December 2021; an invitation to open a chapter. The duration of the conversation was based on the daily time cycle that can be traced back to ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. At the transitional age of 41, they responded both as individuals and as artistic and life partners. The topics covered personal and social reflections on love, personal values, art, identity, capitalism, colonialism, truth and justice...
In the second form, they recorded daily dialogues which capture the rhythm of everyday events and interactions, reflecting spontaneous reflections and exchanges in varied environments. They track a subject’s experience of the normality of time passing, filing up into a cumulative series of moments.
Capsules of their cognitive basis will be extracted for the next 40 years, hopefully, as according to respective life expectancies. This process stops, when one of them passes on. While the flow of human consciousness continues.
The Set
