Come as history to history

Video, b&w, sound
50.000 flyers distributed in the exhibition & public space inviting people to access the work online

Didona is an AI whose purpose is to walk people through the now unbreathable city of Cluj Napoca while telling stories from before. She’s one of the relic AIs who were created in the hippie identity politics style of the 2020s and knows that the others are only telling the successful stories of late capitalism. But her vision of history is different. She knows bad and good always come together, as righteous and shameful, success and failure, beautiful and ugly, truth and lie. And truth holds a different place in her order(i.e. code) of values. Her stories are truthful, while not necessarily real. One day, her own sense of time changes due to a malfunction caused by rotten code left unattended for too long. She knows the ‘where’, but forgot the ‘when’. She gives one last tour, before she’s put to sleep forever. This is her last tour.

Produced as part of Work Upside Down competition, organized by Asociația Centrul Cultural Clujean as part of the project Cluj Future of Work, financed by the European Fund for Regional Development through the program Urban Innovative Actions.

Sound design & video editing: Laurențiu Coțac
Research and script: Jasmina Al-Qaisi
Concept, script, voice: Larisa Crunțeanu

If on location, the tour starts here: goo.gl/maps/jFyhu22gr9xCjKUKA

Part I of the Didona Series. Follow the links to read and listen to Part II and Part III.