ANsible

Year: 2023

Installation, 3-channel video, 11’16”

collaboration with Zeng Sixin and Yedam Ann

Ansible departs from the global roll-out of the 5G infrastructure to explore the disconnect between the speed of telecommunications and the human act of communication. The work unfolds in the form of a conversation between the fictional characters meeting for the first time on an internet video chatroom, each from their own corners of the world. The work explores these themes not only within the finished piece itself, but also in the documentation of the creation process: over the course of several months, the artists left improvised scripted voice messages on each other’s phones, each in their own native language.

The work was produced in the context of the CODE residency program, hosted by the IMPAKT Centre for Media Culture (NL), Werktank (BE), and Transmediale (DE).