Unknowable Certainty is an immersive audiovisual performance showing the experience of being caught in the past–searching for a numerical value that might explain the moments leading up to a present confrontation with the “end”–as if to balance a debt.

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 extend time, a cycle of reaching into a database of recollection hopes to yield validation for the cumulative result–the emotional landscape of now. Despite knowing our database comes short of reality, why, nonetheless, do we aim to quantify our lived experiences?

Unknowable Certainty is a collaborative project between artists Cyan D’Anjou, Sunghoon Song, and computational social scientist Luisa do Amaral. Their interdisciplinary approaches, characterized by the deliberate convergence and divergence of inquiries, culminate in the physical representation of a shared reflective process–a candid exposition of self-analysis. In hopes to allow the cycle to rest, they approach work from an existentialist perspective, aiming to invite compassion for sentiment and the experience of being to exist validly, free of explanation.