The curtain opens. A cursor blinks on an empty screen. Only the clicks of the keyboard break the silence as we set off on a sensual walk in the woods.
Rebekka is writing the script for a play that explores the power of language and the political character of authorship and creativity. But even as she is typing and thinking, forms of text-generating AI have already found their way into everyday use, producing much more text than Rebecca – and in much less time. Text production has become fast, posthuman…
What does it mean to be a creator in a time of constant technological updates? Can we still afford the luxury of getting lost? To read between the lines? To slow down?
Inspired by techno-feminist perspectives and feminist writing strategies, Horror Vacui invites you on a humorous, poetic and critical journey through the entanglement of human, text, machine – from female typewriters to disembodied AI. What reality are we writing with the tools we create? Who is actually writing? – And who keeps doing the work in the background?
An evening in between edited and deleted thoughts, dominate datasets, collective imagination and our own physical presence.
The instrument is working on our thoughts. - Nietzsche, when starting writing on the typewriter.
Spoken in English
Concept, text, performance: Rebekka Bangerter - Dramaturgy: Henriette Festerling - Scenography and lighting design: Hendrik Walther - Coaching: Joachim Robbrecht - External eye: Emke Idema - Custom advice: Daphne De Winkel - Advice: Isadora Chun Shing Au / Jimmy Grima - Technical support: Durante Van Kuijk - With special thanks to: Edit Kaldor
