Program
I’m a Robot and I need Therapy | Marina Orlova
Marina Orlova
“I’m a Robot and I need Therapy” is an experimental performance that crosses ideas of neurodiversity and data feminism and offers a critical and ironic view on modern society’s approach to technology, ethics, empathy and the mental health care system. It includes a live therapy session for a “mentally unstable AI” and monologues of “human agents”: AI-therapist, tech start-up CEO, hacker, AI’s girlfriend. Within the tragicomic genre it questions agency, subjectivity and power relations and draws parallels with the field of psychiatry, based on personal experience. AI is engineered for this project and trained with a unique dataset; it generates text in real time and therefore becomes an improvisation partner.
The public Try-Out on 22 September is unfortunately sold out.
Please join Marina for the next showings:
> 30 October @Flam festival (Avant-premiere)
> 12 & 13 November @Frascati 4 (Premiere)
> 16 & 17 November @NEXT LEVEL Festival Dortmund (D)
More infos & updates: https://linktr.ee/mentally.unstable.ai
22 September 2024
17:00
€ 7.50
Try-out
About Marina Orlova
Marina Orlova (1987, Moscow) is an independent choreographer, performer, dramaturg, based in Amsterdam. After receiving education in sociology and cultural studies, Marina has been studying and making dance since 2012. She graduated from SNDO at the Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2021. Her main topics are mental health, tech ethics and migration. Her aesthetics is tragicomedy and absurdism.
Since 2020 Marina has been busy with responsible AI and Data feminism, creating paradoxical and political chatbot-performers: non-European AI (“But I’m just a Text”, 2020), neurodivergent AI (“too much in the head”, 2021). Marina takes the role of a mediator between engineering logic and theatre apparatus in order to explore the process of meaning-making at the collision of the two worlds. Marina’s current artistic practice also includes writing, teaching, advising and facilitating a support group for artists in distress. https://marina-or-not.github.
Credits:
Artistic team:
Marina Orlova – concept, text, directing, performance.
Artem Konevskikh – AI engineering.
Arieh Chrem – live sound design.
Nazar Rakhmanov – co-directing, video design, light design.
Amelie Haller – dramaturgical advice.
Burkhard Körner – creative process facilitation, dramaturgical advice.
Tiana Hemlock-Yensen – outside eye.
Earlier collaborators:
Biljana Radinoska – dramaturgy.
Emilia Grzeczka – scenography, video design.
Gregory Dyachkov – machine learning.
Special thanks: Raoni Saleh, Yves Regenass, Gala Faraus, Liza Spivakovskaya, Willem Weemhoff, Erik Lint.
Production: Marina Orlova, with the support of IDlab (AHK) and Veem House.
Supported by: AFK, Creative Industries NL, Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fonds, Amarte fonds, Workspace Brussels, ON/OFF residency.
