In moments of conflict or personal uncertainty, people often seek support through conversations with those closest to them. The messages we receive from friends, as well as those internalised during early childhood through our relationships with parents and our immediate environment, shape our patterns of thought, emotional responses, and decision-making. Building upon this premise, Talk to Me explores the role of speech, memory, and interpersonal communication in the formation of our inner dialogue.

The installation employs a modified jukebox as a medium that—in place of music—reproduces recorded statements and messages collected from my personal telephone conversations. By adopting the form of what appears to be an obsolete music-playing device, the jukebox is transformed into an interactive apparatus for psychological reflection and a form of fine-tuning of one’s inner world. Access to individual recordings is enabled through the use of tokens, referencing the logic of contemporary consumer society in which attention, communication, and emotional experience are increasingly mediated through mechanisms of exchange and consumption.

Listening to different voices simultaneously or in succession generates a layered sonic structure that evokes the complexity of everyday communication, internal dilemmas, conflicting perspectives, and the processes of decision-making. The work also incorporates psychological research into the phenomenon of communication in the context of new technologies and digital media. This research examines how contemporary communication tools simultaneously expand the possibilities for human connection, while also introducing new challenges, uncertainties, and forms of communicative overload.