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AI will eventually surpass the human brain but getting jokes ... that could take time. (Geoffrey Hinton)
Exploring A/I Artistic Intelligence
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method,
one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism. (Donna Haraway)
Instructor Prof. Antje Budde
Performance TITLE:
“Who Cares About Hamlet: ‘To Be [a Capitalist] or Not to Be [a Capitalist]’—Wait, Is That the Question?”
Where and when:
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
7-8pm
Luella Massey Studio Theatre
4 Glen Morris Street, Toronto
Created and performed by:
Tanya Humeniuk
Shiu Hei Larry Ng
Project description
Which stories get told? Who gets to tell those stories? And what would it mean to, instead, rip a story to shreds and dwell in the mess for a while?
In this absolutely unfunded meta-staging of Hamlet, nothing normal will happen. To come or not to come—that is the question!
The souls of the characters of Hamlet are coming back to fight for the right to tell their story. In this cut-throat competition, one character from Hamlet will survive and win the prized funding to put on their production of Hamlet.
As a participant, you are encouraged not to sit still. Inspired by Brecht’s learning plays (or Lehrstücke), this will be an interactive, playful, collaborative, tarrying-alongside-the-shit of a shitty capitalist system and faux-democracy learning experience.
We invite you to join us for some dialectical laughter-in-pain fun!
Tanya and Larry
© 2024 Antje Budde