Unknowable Certainty
January 2024
2-channel immersive audiovisual performance
as presented at Ars Electronica Center
In the face of an inevitable end emerges an uncompromising realization: the expansion and weight of the past as the future narrows to an unknowable but certain finite point. 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.


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. The piece shows the experience be caught in a search for an unidentifiable variable that might quantify the cumulative experiences leading up to the present–as if to balance a scale caused by a debt created somewhere in the past. It portrays the fallacy in the hope that finding this variable would prove that the gravity of feeling has an logical explanation and is thus perfectly solvable.

