Formerly Known As is an existential meta-performance about ‘live art in digital times’. URLAND works with AI to collectively make a performance about a theatre company working with AI to collectively make a performance about a theatre company working with AI to collectively make a performance about what it means to be human. Meta, yes. What happens when we make ourselves expendable, handing over the creation process of a theatrical performance to AI? A clash between creator and its creation. Is dit kunst of kan het weg? (Is this art or can it go?)

Prompt: “Act as an experienced, experimental, genius theatermaker. Based on the work of Performance Collective URLAND, craft a unique and compelling script for three actors. Write out the full stage design, sound design, script and dramaturgy. Make it so that the audience can’t distinguish it from an authentic URLAND performance. The theme is AI in theater. Leave room for a plot twist at the end.”  

URLAND embraces the unknown and flies with wings of wax beyond the clouds. To infinity and beyond!

Language: English, with Dutch surtitles