4ever connected

2023

Rather than positioning the performer as enacting the role of artificial intelligence,
the work collapses the distinction between self and simulation, destabilizing the
boundary between human and technological subjectivities. In doing so, 4EVER
CONNECTED operates within the logic of the simulacrum (Baudrillard), wherein the
representation no longer functions as a copy of the real, but emerges as an
autonomous referent. This ontological ambiguity becomes apparent through the
conflation of interiority and surface. The anime assistant functions simultaneously
as narrator and object, subject and interface. Referencing the psychological
doubling central to Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, the work suspends the viewer in a
state of interpretive uncertainty.