ERSAN MONDTAG
Wonderland Ave. , 2018
What will the world look like in the future if social and technological developments progress as rapidly as they have in recent decades?
When artificial intelligence has left human intelligence behind and dominates all areas of life? What will become of humans - these unpredictable, flawed, slow and sentimental beings?
Sibylle Berg's play WONDERLAND AVE. is set in a museum of humanity, a memorial to the once dominant species, whose physicality is now primarily preserved in paintings, photo installations and sculptures. Sometimes naked and carnal as in Ron Mueck's work, sometimes renaissance-like and damned as in a fall from hell.
In this bitter and comical swan song to humanity, five robots that could have come straight out of a Picasso painting control two pathetic specimens who reflect one last time on what has gone wrong with their world, in which they felt so selfrighteously in control.
When artificial intelligence has left human intelligence behind and dominates all areas of life? What will become of humans - these unpredictable, flawed, slow and sentimental beings?
Sibylle Berg's play WONDERLAND AVE. is set in a museum of humanity, a memorial to the once dominant species, whose physicality is now primarily preserved in paintings, photo installations and sculptures. Sometimes naked and carnal as in Ron Mueck's work, sometimes renaissance-like and damned as in a fall from hell.
In this bitter and comical swan song to humanity, five robots that could have come straight out of a Picasso painting control two pathetic specimens who reflect one last time on what has gone wrong with their world, in which they felt so selfrighteously in control.
Written by Sibylle Berg
Directed by Ersan Mondtag
Installation view: ‘Wonderland Ave. ’, Schauspiel Köln, 2018.
Courtesy of the Artist and PİLEVNELİ
Photo: Birgit Hupfeld