Fri 23.05 / 7.30 p.m.
Schauspielhaus
Duration 1 h 5 min, no interval
What happens when an artificial intelligence designs a new world? The Spanish company Agrupación Señor Serrano has made the attempt with their fascinating theatrical means. The result is a visually stunning production, with holograms and computer-generated videos, featuring the emergence of a utopian island. But who belongs to the new community? Do mosquitos? Or viruses and poisonous plants? And what about hooligans who love pizza Hawaii?
An AI has written part of the text and co-developed the choreography. And so we experience a dialogue between human and machine initially in joint pursuit of a better, more peaceful world. The conversation accelerates along with the always astonishing projections and the people moving through this new biosphere.
Can human beings tolerate loss of control? Are we perhaps the system malfunction? The performance – not without irony – takes a new reading of the relationship between human beings and technology. Whether this connection leads to paradise or catastrophe is for the audience to decide. Welcome to the island!
Further information about Agrupación Señor Serrano
Direction, dramaturgy Àlex Serrano, Pau Palacios / Direction, dramaturgy assistant Carlota Grau / Performers Carlota Grau, Lia Vohlgemuth, Sara Montalvão, Bartosz Ostrowski and nine local performers / Holographic performer Eva Torróntegui / Set design, costumes Xesca Salvà / Light design Cube.bz / Music Nico Roig / Holographic videos David Negrão / Video morphing Boris Ramírez / Video Programming David Muñiz / Stage manager, performer Camille Latron / Artificial intelligences used during the creation of the piece GPT-3, Bloom, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and FILM / Production coordinator Barbara Bloin / Executive producer Paula S. Viteri / Management Art Republic
A production by GREC Festival de Barcelona / Câmara Municipal de Setúbal / Rota Clandestina / Festival Internacional de Teatro de Expressão Iberica (FITEI) / Centro Cultural CondeDuque / Laboratorio de las Artes de Valladolid (LAVA) / CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli-Venezia Giulia / TPE – Festival delle Colline Torinesi / SPRING Festival / Feikes Huis / Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat
With the support of Ajuntament de Terrassa / Fabra i Coats Fàbrica de creació de Barcelona
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