All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Residenties
- 03.07 > 21.07.2023
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
(Richard Brautigan)
In All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace verkennen Ezra Veldhuis en Bosse Provoost vrijheid en onvrijheid in relatie tot technologie, door het gelijknamige gedicht van Richard Brautigan uit 1967 te ensceneren.
Machines, medicijnen, algoritmes: veel nieuwe technologie lijkt eerder (arbeids)disciplinerend of gericht op sociale controle, dan dat ze ons nieuwe vormen van vrijheid geeft. Betekent dit dat Brautigans droom dood is? Leven we al in een totaal geperverteerde realisatie ervan? Of bevat de in zijn droom beloofde vrijheid nog steeds potentieel?
At last I am free, I can hardly see in front of me!
Concept, lighting and scenography: Ezra Veldhuis & Bosse Provoost I Choreography: Nathan Ooms, Bosse Provoost, Ezra Veldhuis I Performers: Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez, Jayson Batut, Nathan Ooms I Costume design: Carly Rae Heathcote I Sound design: Benne Dousselaere I Execution set: Sibran Sampers I Technical support: Wim Bernaers I Outside eye: Marc Vanrunxt I Internship: Cesar Vromman I Production: Hiros I Co-production: C‑TAKT, NEXT Festival, auawirleben Festival, Kunstenwerkplaats, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, CAMPO, Per Podium I With the support of: Kunstencentrum BUDA, De Grote Post, Le Bamp, STUK, Kunst/Werk, Stad Gent, the Flemish government, taxshelter of the Belgian Federal Government via Ufund