Voice to Voice is an interdisciplinary art project that spans video installation, live performances, and architectural design. It explores how labor, merit, and self-perception intertwine. Over the course of two years, artist Jingyi Wang traveled across Norway and China conducting over 80 in-depth interviews through online recruitment, chance encounter and personal connections within a specially designed mobile pavilion—a temporary, transportable space built for intimate conversations and to protect interviewees’ privacy. The interviews and travels were documented and is presented through the exhibition.

The project raises questions such as: How does our work impact our sense of self-worth? Does work still reflect a person’s merit and value? How is the value of work defined by capital and social status today in a society where utilitarianism is a dominant philosophy? How is our work and reward system deviating from an individual’s sense of value and meaning, and what alternative mindsets and practices exist? And as AI increasingly replaces human labour, how do we redefine our value as human beings outside the narrow framework of production and consumption?

The interviews are presented in six custom-built listening booths installed at Kunsthall 3,14, where twelve selected voices from China are shared in two rotating groupings over the duration of the exhibition. These voices speak not through a didactic framework, but through lived experience: workers, farmers, artists, students, and professionals, members of precariat, entrepreneurs, trust fund inheritors reflect candidly on how work shapes their lives, their relationships, and their self-worth.

Voice to Voice is the third part of Wang’s Performative Event Series: Value Trilogy. The two previous works were Post Capitalistic Auction – a performative art auction that premiered at BIT in 2018 – and JUDGE ME, a performative court trial questioning how we value artworks and the people who create them presented at METEOR 2021.

Voice to Voice opens with a performance in METEOR 2025, and the exhibition runs until January 2026.