Colette Sadler with Mikko Gaestel

ARK 1

Duration 40 min

Due to an irreparable error, “ARK 1” has become disconnected from its main network. Floating through deep space for centuries, digital apparitions and hallucinations haunt the solitary humanoid AI onboard. Now in a state of deterioration, it attempts to make sense of its inbuilt information of past human existence. Which fragments of its data and value systems will be preserved or vanish into obsolescence? In this im­mersive solo performance installation, choreographer Colette Sadler and visual artist Mikko Gaestel thematise the future of the human in relation to technology inside the virtual architecture of a 3D environment.

World Premiere
Credits

Funded by: Nationale Performance Netz “Stepping Out” Fund, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, Assistance Program for Dance. Supported by: fundsCreative Scotland, TWR Glasgow, tanzhaus nrw and Fabrik Potsdam.

In cooperation with Sophiensælen and Kultur Büro Elisabeth.

 

Past dates

Location

St. Elisabeth-Kirche
Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin

The St. Elisabeth Kirche is accessible via a wheelchair ramp on the right-hand side. There is an accessible toilet on the ground floor of Villa Elisabeth.