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- a customized live audio play
Festival Ctrl Alt Play I Premiere October 2024 / Theater Utrecht
What happens when your voice no longer belongs to you? Where do you end, and the other begins? And who holds the authorship over your thoughts?
Company is a performative audio-play experience for a single participant. The audio play is generated ad hoc from a voice clone and based on a childhood memory of the individual visitor. In a small, cave-like black box, you lie completely in the dark and listen to your own voice gradually overwriting your memory.
Company explores the boundaries between self and other, human and machine, inviting participants into an intimate echo chamber where these lines blur and shift. A ghostly encounter that raises questions on identity, agency, and AI ethics.
This performance prototype emerges from Rebekka’s experiences as an artist experimenting with the AI toolkit and the challenges she faced within this experience. Is the artist working for the tool, or is the tool serving the artist? Who nourishes whom in this relationship? And how do we face the dilemmas that arise between ethical concerns and technical possibilities?
Concept and realization: Rebekka Bangerter
Advise: Maaike Bleeker
On invitation of Innovation Lab Utrecht
HORROR VACUI
- a live typed performance in collaboration with an AI
DAS Theatre, Amsterdam I Theater Monty, Antwerp
2023
The curtain opens. A cursor is blinking on an empty screen. Only the clicking of the keyboard is breaking the silence as we embark on a sensual walk through the forest.
Rebekka is writing a performance, exploring the power of language and the politicallity of authorship and creativity. But while she is still typing and thinking, text generating AI’s have found their way into our everyday use, creating much more text than her - in much less time. Producing text has become posthuman.
What does it mean to create in a time of constant technological updates? Can we still allow ourselves to get lost? To read between the lines and slow down?
Inspired by techno-feminist perspectives and writing strategies, horror vacui invites you on a humorous, poetic and critical journey on the entanglement of human, text, machine - from female typewriters to disembodied AI’s. What reality do we write with the tools we create? Who is writing? - And who keeps doing the work in the background?
An evening between edited and deleted thoughts, dominating datasets, collective imagination and our own bodily presence.
Premiere October 2023, Theater Monty Antwerp
Research Phase: DAS Theatre, 2022 / 2023
Concept / Text / Performance: Rebekka Bangerter
Dramaturgy: Henriette Festerling
Scenography and light design: Hendrik Walther
Mentoring: Joachim Robbrecht
Eye Exterior: Emke Idema
Costume Advice: Daphne De Winkel
Consulting Isadora: Chun Shing Au / Jimmy Grima
Technical Support: Durante Van Kuijk
With special thanks to Edit Kaldor
© rebekka bangerter