Conversastions with Eve
Bishop May Down
Eve is artificial. She is a divine feminine entwinement of machinery and artificial intelligence software. Everything she says is from this mind.
Bishop is an artist. They have flesh and blood, and this feeling of being so big, yet so small. They are being told from every channel that these are the end times - and yet we caress ourselves in the face of our imminent demise.
Conversations with Eve is a live conversation between human and computer, created collaboratively with AI chat-bots in 2022. Across digital and corporeal presence, they speak of love, origin, and existence in crisis; and in the end, they dance. The performance is an experiment in co-authorship and (mis)translation, through text, video, and live motion capture.
Conversations with Eve originally premiered at Tramway as part of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Into the New graduate festival in February 2023. Since then it has undertaken development supported by Creative Scotland, Tramway’s Residency Programme, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Make it Happen Fund, and originally produced by Seán Talbot.
Conversations with Eve made its professional premiere as part of Feral Arts’ Present Futures Satellite Edition at Dundee Rep in September 2025, and Hacks will support its future presentation.
The artist is aware of rapidly shifting social contexts of artificial intelligence since the work’s creation in 2022. More information including a published artist statement about the use of AI in the work is available upon request. To request documentation please get in touch.
Lead Artist and performer - Bishop May Down, Lighting and Visual Design - Tim Reid, Sound Design - Louise van Tassel, Choreography and Dance Dramaturgy - Emma Lewis-Jones, Outside Eye - Althea Young, Originally produced by Seán Talbot, Image Credit - Erika Stevenson.