In a time that is no longer ours, yet

Audio guide, part of Didona series
Performed live by the artist or individually by audience based on geolocation alongside tram line 16
Bucharest, 2022

Didona is an AI whose purpose is to walk people through the now unbreathable city of Bucharest 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.

Voice, script: Larisa Crunțeanu
Sound design: Laurențiu Coțac
Curated by: Cristina Stoenescu