Two Walls: Ordinary War Rehearsal
2025 (ongoing)
Real-time AI Simulation and Lecture Performance

"Two Walls - Ordinary War Rehearsal" is an interactive AI simulation and lecture performance, born from my personal experience of sheltering from drone attacks in Kyiv and the survival principle known as the "two-wall rule."

The piece presents a dual-layered narrative. On the surface, an AI (the "Sanctuary Algorithm") coldly calculates the optimal posture to evade an attack in real-time across five surreal scenarios: a hotel, a border, a club, a train, and a park. Beneath this, an inner layer interweaves my personal memories, dark humor, and philosophical reflections through voice-overs, dialogue, and on-screen text.

While war simulations typically focus on the macrocosm of combat, this work, through the form of a lecture performance, shifts the perspective entirely to individual survival under the shadow of war. The audience witnesses the AI's brute-force calculation process alongside the absurd, insignificant, yet resilient struggle of an individual confronting the grand war machine. What is ultimately presented is not a film, but a playable philosophical fable, an "ordinary war rehearsal" that explores the very absurdity of survival in the face of algorithmic violence.

《两堵墙-Ordinary War Rehearsal》是一件交互式AI模拟与讲座表演作品，源于我在基辅躲避无人机袭击的真实经历与“两堵墙原则 (two-wall rule)”这一生存法则。

作品呈现了一个双层叙事：表层，一个AI（“圣所算法”）在酒店、边境、Club、火车、公园这五个超现实场景中，冷酷地实时计算躲避袭击的最优姿态；里层，则通过画外音、对话与屏幕文本，交织着我个人的记忆、黑色幽默与哲学反思。

战争模拟（war simulation）通常聚焦于宏观的战斗本身，但本作通过讲座表演（lecture performance）的形式，将视角彻底转向了战争阴影下的个体生存。观众将见证AI的暴力破解过程，以及个体在宏大战争机器面前荒诞、渺小又坚韧的挣扎。这最终呈现的并非一部影片，而是一个可供把玩的哲学寓言，一场关于“日常的战争排演”（ordinary war rehearsal），它探讨在算法化的暴力面前，生存本身的荒谬性。