Socratic Inquiries-(1999)The Chinese Room & at The Barbican Center (1999)-London-UK

Video/Sound installation in four walls. The image is digitally originated; there are layers of text in a three-dimensional universe, and ‘punctuation signs'. The sound originates in the following text: Who knows, I don’t know, do you know? No, I don’t know. Why don’t you know? Oh, I don’t know. I just don’t know. You know? Yes, I know. As the sound evolves, the sentence changes to unrecognisable sounds and sentences that sound more like I know I don't know you…
As these sentences move across the walls at a speed that supersedes by twenty per cent the general reading pace, the effort to listen collides with the effort to read.

Things come and go... (1999)The Chinese Room) & at The Barbican Center (1999)-London-UK
It is an animated calligramme reshaping itself and consequently breaking the structure of the sentence. The sound starts with the reading of the poem as the calligramme moves in the sky (animated pieces of paper with words and letters on them). As the words change position by breaking the sentence the sound also brakes creating a kind of rhythm. The sound is produced by a computerised voice, which the spectator can either love or hate or move from one state to the other. The original poem reads: Things come and go/ they are in a constant state of flux/one moment they are here/ and the next they are not/ we try to hold them.