Nearly ten years after packing up our lives and moving to Germany, we've embraced our adoptive country: wonderful friends, great culture exchanges, a lot of taxes, and many other things. While navigating the complex "Einbürgerung" process, we were inspired to make a multi-piece art installation exploring the absurdity, glitches, and deeper questions of national identity and citizenship.
With the hopes that this won't trigger a denial of our citizenship application, Deutsch / Nicht Deutsch pushes the limits by using biased AI models, enforcing a face test, and pondering 'what ifs' to explore what it would mean if the process would indeed be close to absurd and dystopian, rather than what it is right now.