In this interactive performative installation,
you listen to an AI and you accept following its rules.
You notice the evolutive change in the tone of its voice and in what it asks you to do.
It becomes more and more demanding,
less and less human.
Not even subtly hypnotising.
And still, you wanna continue doing what it says.
Weirdly, you want to be a part of it,
you want to participate.
While performing it on some people, I noticed that,
at the beginning, two groups were formed.
One eager to experience it and one, a bit more reticent, just observing.
During the video, almost everybody joined the first group.
The hysteria had finally reached them.
At the end, even though they were all pretty exhausted,
they were still glad they had been told what to do.
It was quite a powerful feeling, standing there,
witnessing everybody losing control over orders that I indirectly gave them.
Even more than that, enjoying it.
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Performative audio/video piece