SUBMERGE Performance — DOUBLE BILL — Marlon Barrios Solano | Kasia Wolińska
Jul 26th 2025 , 20:00 – 23:00
BORN IN LATENT SPACE, A Performance Lecture by Marlon Barrios Solano (20H)
This is the unseeable space in which machine learning makes its meaning. Beyond that which we are incapable of visualizing is that which we are incapable of even understanding. — James Bridle
Born in Latent Space is a live lecture-performance that unfolds as a speculative, real-time collaboration between the artist and machine learning models. Seated before a laptop, Marlon Barrios Solano engages with generative AI systems to explore latent space—conceived not only as a technical structure, but as a realm of all possible stories.
Latent space, in machine learning, refers to a high-dimensional abstract representation of data where compressed, hidden features are encoded. In this piece, it becomes a poetic and political territory—an unstable, generative dimension where memory, desire, identity, and imagination recombine through algorithmic play.
Through gestures, voice, and code, the performer navigates a shifting audiovisual landscape shaped by real-time responses from AI: generated text, images, and sound. The work combines storytelling, re-performance, movement scores, web-based interaction, and algorithmic improvisation.
CREDITS
performance, creative coding, generative AI, sound, concept: Marlon Barrios Solano
KISS by Kasia Wolińska (21H)
KISS, a work for three dancers, evolved alongside Prince’s posthumously released album Piano & A Microphone 1983. Choreographed by Kasia Wolińska and premiered during the 2022 SENSE series at Radialsystem, the piece celebrates dance as a powerful, joyous expression of life. Drawing inspiration from Prince’s effortless mastery of diverse aesthetics and the album’s rich musical tapestry, the choreography establishes a dynamic framework for the intricate interplay between the dancers’ bodies and their connection to the audience’s physical and affective experience. It playfully explores a range of techniques, qualities, and legacies of dance, reviving its emotional resonance and musicality. The result is a vibrant, shared experience of movement and connection, brimming with energy and rhythm.
For SUBMERGE, the performance will include a bonus section with a DJ set by Marisa Ngakegny aka Femdelic.
CREDITS
Concept and Choreography: Kasia Wolinska
Choreographic Collaboration: Myriam Lucas
Dancing: Julek Kreutzer, Kasia Ustowska-Gmerek, Kasia Wolinska
Dance Coaching: Myriam Lucas, Shannon Cooney
Music Direction: Oleg Dziewanowski
Costumes: Ewa Wolinska
Light Design: Aleksandr Prowalinski, Bruno Pocheron
Dramaturgy: Thomas Schaupp
Production: Magda Garlinska
„KISS“ is a project by Kasia Wolinska, funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation, with the support of Lublin Dance Theatre, Centre Français de Berlin and Goethe-Institut Warsaw.
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