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Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Dawn. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?

In the future I want to bridge the boundary between logic and absurdity and I want to learn how to think and communicate with people through other organs than the brain. I don’t mean that metaphorically, symbolically or in any sort of dreamy way. I mean it, well… for real. In this way we could develop ourselves without needing machines to do it for us. Machines are very logical and not at all absurd. Only humans are absurd and in order to develop humanity, we have to develop absurdity. We have to become more human even as we become trans-human. That’s the one thin line of space for the self to return to and if I could find it, I bet I’d meet you there! Can you imagine what it would be like if my spleen could speak to your spleen? Or if I could decide with which organ (or perhaps eventually which machine) I wanted to think? What if thinking could

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very grateful. So in this way, writing a poem or making a film is similar to an audience participation performance. I try to make artistic decisions about my language in actual and imagined co-operation with these imaginary but very real and also individual people of the past present and future. The other is of primary importance to me because I am searching for the self and paradoxically, I can only do that alone with other people.


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