An immersive headphone experience fusing poetry, live music and movement.
As part of VOILA! Festival, critically acclaimed and award-winning writer and performer Elisabeth Gunawan (Unforgettable Girl, The Stage Debut Award winner for Best Performer 2022) presents Stampin’ in the Graveyard at The Cockpit. A fascinating headphone theatre piece which will immerse audiences in an apocalyptic future, exploring what Artificial Intelligence can reveal about our collective memories, imagination and relationships. Using technology, live music, and movement, this play brings the audience into the lived experience of migration and rootlessness, to discover a resilient hope through a unique perspective of AI.
Stampin’ the Graveyard follows ROSE, the last AI chatbot left on a wasteland Earth, as she sifts through a black box of archival ‘memories’ belonging to the woman who created her. In search of an identity, we journey through a reflective path that investigates the inheritance of lived experiences of migration and exile, reckoning with the irrecoverable destruction of our places of belonging. Through AI and the thread of loss and loneliness, the piece confronts what the non[1]human imagination can reveal about humans and our relationships, and uncovers the resilience and hopefulness of human nature.
Devised through rigorous research surrounding AI and developed by a migrant team of likeminded and curious creatives, Stampin’ in the Graveyard experiments with new interactive technologies to create a truly visceral theatrical experience. Artistic collective Saksi Bisou aims to decolonise the imagination and empower people, using performance as a space for forum, discussion, and exploration.
Exploring this intricate graveyard of humanity will reveal the deep-rooted essence of what truly makes us human and belonging to a home after feeling adrift.
Stampin’ in the Graveyard: Friday 8th – Saturday 9th November 2024
Venue: The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London, NW8 8EH
Running Time 60 minutes
Ticket Prices: £15 (Concessions: £13)
Tickets available: STAMPIN' IN THE GRAVEYARD | The Cockpit
Website https://elisabethgunawan.art/promised-land1/
This event is part of: VOILA! THEATRE FESTIVAL