“I’m Not Sure I’m Ready to Play” is a collaborative collage-making project between River Hongjie He and Eliza Maria Voinea. Working with various mediums such as textile, photography, ink painting, Ai generators, Hongjie’s art focus on the iteration of tools and its interplay with image making. Maria has been working on creative literature projects after graduating from Comparative Literature at University of Oslo. Together, they embarked on textual collage, cutting words from publications like “The Times,” “National Geographic,” and exhibition catalogs, rearranging them into surrealist poetry that explores multiple themes like nature, politics, culture and art. These poetic texts served as prompts to generate images using AI, expanding collaboration beyond human interaction to include artificial intelligence. The resulting collages pay homage to the Dada period, embracing its ethos of absurdity, randomness, and anti-establishment sentiment. While employing traditional handcrafted binding techniques and wooden material, the work seeks to strike a balance between conceptuality and craftsmanship.

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