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haoren dai

beijing, china

video and photography-based artist

 
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Last Night and First Day, 2021-2059

 
 

As ‘Patient No.1’ who was infected with Smart Virus in 2021, I had quietly fallen into WHAA surveillance without knowing it. Compared with other people, I could obviously feel that I was more sensitive to the surrounding environment and curious about everything. Therefore, I began to collect a large number of so-called ‘evidence’. These were pictures and text messages sent from smart devices every day, which I pieced together all night, trying to find the answer within the prolonged darkness of that severe winter. How did humans step by step fall into madness?

During these 38 years, WHAA had long established a dedicated database of hundreds of billions of calculation units for me. On February 15, 2059, my birthday, I received an unlimited laboratory VIP ticket carefully prepared for me. This meant that I would enter the second phase of the experiment, without any choice.

I started ‘spiritual therapy’ the day after. Everything there was full of harmony, with every staff member displaying smiling faces and softly spoken voices. In addition to watching some digital videos daily, I was allowed to choose my favourite food during lunch time. This is the most satisfying moment of the day. I can define this moment that belongs only to me through my imagination and reorganization of food. In order not to be discovered, I tried to use the "food language" to talk to myself implicitly, to "encrypt" all the food, and to compile a unique "Morse code".

I don’t know how long it took. I suddenly discovered that, unlike the first day, I could no longer hear the sound of my heart surging, there were no initial hallucinations, headaches, sleep disorder, depression or other symptoms. I was sent to the gate of the laboratory by all the staff cheerfully, and suddenly I felt a strange and stinging sensation, as the sunlight hit my face.

 
 
 
 
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