Conversations is a research-based project initiated in 2013, built on individually recorded interviews with children aged 7–10 from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds across multiple countries.

The project began as a series of site-specific sound installations titled Conversations: Hula Hoops, Elastics, Marbles and Sand—a multi-channel audio performance where children’s voices enter into dialogue with one another, accompanied by sculptural installations employing the formal language of children’s games and toys. Simultaneous English translations allow the children’s statements to be perceived as conversations about freedom, war, foreigners, money, justice, and belonging.

Over the past decade, the rich archive of children’s recorded statements has evolved into diverse artistic formats: Conversations: Drawings (abstract graphic compositions translating children’s words into visual language), Conversations: Opera (where children’s statements were transformed into libretto for a live opera performance, alongside a simultaneously produced immersive video installation), Conversations: Paintings (works incorporating children’s statements directly into visual form), and most recently Conversations: Architecture (a methodological shift examining how these interviews reveal ideological structures embedded within built environments and spatial perception).

Each iteration of the project maintains a consistent inquiry: how does ideology inhabit language, and how does the child’s voice expose the instability of what appears natural or self-evident?