Work try to explore and answer what "immortality" really means in a context where "immortality" can be achieved through technological development. When the biological boundaries of the body are broken by technology, how do our bodies exist, how do we stand, and how do we define ? When the time limit of life is broken, will our existence still have meaning ? How should we define existence and time under this infinity?
Sound Narrative Work
25-28 November 2023
Corner 7 Gallery, London, UK
In this moment, as she looks down at her unfamiliar limbs, and catches her strange reflection in the mirrored glass of the facility wall, she does not know that she is the first.
In the decades after her death, Neuroimaging, Brain-Computer Interfaces and AI assisted bio-networks have reached such a point that finally her brain, (donated by her grieving husband to medical research after her untimely death), can be - has, in fact, been - sliced and scanned and diced and read and pulverised before being finally remodelled and uploaded into a compatible substrate.
The substrate in Bridget’s case is a glacially beautiful humanoid robot, still staring back from the mirrored glass. She was assured later on that the robot didn’t need to be human. She just looked like she did because the director had a thing for people who look like elves in the lord of the rings; but she could have been anything - a drone, or a fish, or a spaceship. A lick of paint, drying on the wall.
Written by Kandinsky Theatre Company