This collaboration is initiated by Janne Kummer and co-produced with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin and FFT
Düsseldorf. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Amid escalating crises, fears arise that the imagined wholeness of “the” world is falling apart. But what led to the understanding of “the” world as whole in the first place? “Unreal Conditionals” induces the audience into a dreamlike state where soft cavernous walls merge with surreal digital landscapes. Embedded in narrative gameplay, embodied performative modules intertwine stage magic, demon choirs, and post-organic companions in an ever-evolving choreography.
The performance offers collective propositions that reshape relations to automated technologies. As dominant narratives around artificial intelligence are demystified, potential histories resurface, retiring the false binary of it being a universal solution or all-powerful destructive force. Instead, to come to terms with technologies requires a critical engagement with the conditions they are shaped by and the conditions they create. Challenging imperial frameworks, new metaphors for the artificial and the intelligent unfold. “Unreal Conditionals” gestures at the possibilities that are already present but are rendered unreal.
This is not an escape route, but a temporary lapse from which you return, questioning what unreality you have been living in all along.
Performed at “Spy on Me #5 Festival” by
HAU Berlin, 2024.
TEAM:
Artistic Direction: Janne Kummer / Concept: Janne Kummer, Steph Holl-Trieu, Philisha Kay & Codi Körner / Text: Steph Holl-Trieu, Philisha Kay & Janne Kummer / Dramaturgy: Philisha Kay & Steph Holl-Trieu / Technical Direction: Anton Krause / Stage Design: Codi Körner, Janne Kummer / Costume Design: Codi Körner / CGI / Game Design, Live Sound: FE / Prosthesis / Robots: Salvador Marino / Musical Supervision / Sound / Voice Cloning: Johannes Aue / In-Game Video Commission (Museum): Esben Holk / Production: Patrick Kohn / Project Assistance: Maxine Vajt / Logo Design: Teresa Schönherr / Make-Up: Jasmin Erb / Artistic Contributions & Performance: shasti, Cru Encarnação, Josefina Maro und Salvador Marino (Post-Organic Bauplan) / Voice Clones: Janne Kummer as “Love”, Steph Holl-Trieu as “Grace”, Philisha Kay as “Tina”.