Interactive performance 2025
Temporary consulate desk with waiting area and interview station
1:1 interviews, 5–10 minutes per participant, printed forms, stamps, fictional ID cards, and certificates
This work transforms a small office into the Kuling Consulate and invite visitors to apply for a Visa for the Field of the Future. Each participant has a one-to-one visa interview with Consular Officer No. 2777, answering paired questions about land, memory, borders and destiny.
Questions about the past and present are decided through jiao (掷筊) divination, while questions about the future must be answered in the participant’s own voice. Their responses are written down on bureaucratic forms and each interview ends with a stamped Fiktionsbescheinigung that can temporarily replace their identity and assigns a fictional file number as a new ID.
By merging folk divination, administrative language and migration procedures, the piece stages the institution as an oracle that both observes and scripts the applicant. The “Ministry of Artificial Truth” becomes a machine that redistributes responsibility for one’s story between the individual, the archive and the state.
Xy June Li 