Chess, 2013
3-channel video installation, black and white, sound, looped
Duration: 10:19 min.
Performance by: composer/musician Jason Moran
"In Simpson's project—in which one plays chess with oneself—how does one extract oneself from oneself to outwit oneself? Who wins? Technically it would end in a draw and or extend into a Borgesian infinity. How does one become one's own doppelgänger?"
-Joan Simon