Unknowable Certainty


#Live performance
Year: 2024


In the face of a definite ending emerges an uncompromising realization: the expansion and weight of the past as the future narrows to an unknowable but certain finite point. To extend time, a cycle of reaching into a database of recollection hopes to yield validation for the cumulative result–the emotional landscape of now. To tell the story of failing to capture the full depth of lived experiences within societally valued frameworks of rationality, Unknowable Certainty is an immersive performance embodying the narrative of aging–as a metaphorical confrontation of a definite ending.
面对一个确定的结局,出现了一种毫不妥协的认识:过去的扩张和重量随着未来缩小到一个不可知但确定的有限点。为了延长时间,一个进入回忆数据库的循环,希望对累积的结果——现在的情感景观——产生验证。《不可知的确定性》讲述了在理性的社会价值框架内未能捕捉到生活经历的全部深度的故事,是一场身临其境的表演,体现了衰老的叙事——作为一种明确结局的隐喻性对抗。






2024, Unknowable Certainty
Immersive Performance, 2 Channel Video, 6 Channel Audio, Projection, 14’40’’





Choreography by Donna Kim, ShuTing Wang, and Seungju Lee as Directed by Donna Kim
Film Performance: Donna Kim, Mai Nguyen Tri
Live Performance: ShuTing Wang, Seungju Lee
Sound Design and Spatial Sound Mix: Bryan Yueshen Wu
Production Assistants: Seongmin Kim, Kyubin Hur

Performed at Ars Electronica Deep Space