Formerly Known As
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7 nov20:15Try-outTR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamKleine Zaal
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8 nov20:15PremièreTR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamKleine Zaal
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9 nov20:15TR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamKleine Zaal
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15 nov20:15Het Nationale Theater, Den Haag
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26 nov20:30Frascati, Amsterdam
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27 nov20:30Frascati, Amsterdam
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28 nov20:30Frascati, Amsterdam
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3 dec20:30De Schuur, Haarlem
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7 dec20:00Theater Corrosia, Almere Haven
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7 jan20:00Theater Kikker, Utrecht
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8 jan20:00Theater Kikker, Utrecht
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9 jan20:00Theater aan de Rijn, Arnhem
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17 jan20:15Theater de Veste, Delft
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22 jan20:00De Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg
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23 jan20:15TR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamKleine Zaal
Vrije plaatskeuze Standaard € 19,00 TR Pas € 14,00 Rotterdampas € 14,00 t/m 30 jaar € 10,00 -
28 jan20:00Stadsschouwburg de Maagd, Bergen Op Zoom
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1 feb20:30Kunstencentrum Nona, Mechelen
English text
URLAND plays with fire artificial intelligence (AI) and questions the meaning of art in digital times. Are we actually still needed? Boundaries are blurring. AI is everywhere, hive mind. They took our jobs! World domination. "Data overload, everyone is dying."
Formerly Known As ... art?
With cloned voices and a script generated by chatGPT, URLAND uses AI. Or is AI using URLAND? Formerly Known As is a surreal, Blade-Runner-esque meta-performance that questions the shifting meaning of art. The collective works with AI to collectively make a performance about a theatre company working with AI to collectively make a performance about a theatre company working with AI to collectively make a performance about what it means to be human. Meta, yes.
A clash between creator and its creation. 'Is dit kunst(matig) of kan het weg?' (Is this art(ificial) or can it go away?) If we can no longer tell the difference between ‘real’ and artificial, what is really real? What then is art? And where creating art was unique to humans, perhaps even as that which sets us apart from other animals, AI mimics everything effortlessly and seems to be able to create limitlessly - what does that say about being human?
Prompt: “Act as an experienced, experimental scriptmaker. Search the web for performance collective URLAND. Craft a theater script for their new performance about a performance collective using AI to create their new performance. Make it a Blade-Runner-esque metafiction. Make it so that the audience can’t distinguish it from an authentic URLAND performance. Leave room for a plot twist at the end.”
URLAND embraces the unknown and has seen things you people wouldn’t even believe. All these moments will be lost, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Team
Concept en spel Thomas Dudkiewicz, Marijn Alexander de Jong en Jimi Zoet Sound design Tomas Loos en Jimi Zoet Scenografie Marijn Alexander de Jong en Hendrik Walther Lichtontwerp Hendrik Walther Eindregie Suze Milius Dramaturgie Florian Hellwig Dramaturgie stagiaire Hana Pospíšilová Kostuum advies Kostuumatelier Theater Rotterdam - Erik Bosman en Sara Hakkenberg Techniek Denzo Theatertechniek (André Goos) en Marcel Janssen Productieleiding Andrea van Bussel en Elise de Fooij Grafisch ontwerp Ruben Verkuylen PR & communicatie Pien Visser Zakelijke leiding Martha van Meegen Zakelijke assistentie Mara Liza de Bakker Productie URLAND Coproductie Theater Rotterdam