Marina Orlova: I'm a Robot and I need Therapy - NEXT LEVEL

I’m a Robot and I need Therapy brings together topics of Artificial Intelligence and mental health through means of theatre, dance and dark comedy and is working with the idea of a “mentally unstable AI” and its “therapeutic needs”. 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 perspectives 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 autobiographical material and personal experiences of being a neurodivergent artist and a psychiatric survivor. 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 performance will be in English.
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