Tricycle Trauma – Tricycle Trauma’s Residency
Duodrama for a Human and a Trapez: III
Duodrama for a Human and Trapeze is a project in three acts built on the idea of the suspended apparatus as an equal partner in communication with the performer. The research examines the interdependence between the living and inanimate body, exploring how movement is shaped through expanded channels of communication involving sound, light, music, movement, and shifting roles between performer and object. Through this methodological experiment, the project questions different positions and perspectives on existence, juxtaposing the human being within a social context: in Arcing as a form of resistance against social surroundings, in Grounding as an acceptance of the absurdity of being, and in this III. Part ( working title Non-Existence) through the question of the validity of existence itself. The project continues within a consistent aesthetic and technical framework: a minimal stage setup, two performers, possibility of two trapezes in a shared configuration, and a musician with lighting as a key dramaturgical element.
Shoggoth and I
Shoggoth and I is a multidisciplinary performance which wants to explore the Otherness of artificial intelligence, attempting to find an answer to whether this Otherness is different from the one we can perceive in other individuals of the human race. Using physical theatre, mime corporel, puppetry, juggling and various technical multimedia setups, it relies on the works of H.P. Lovecraft from whose works the titular “shoggoth” was memefied into existence a few years ago – the representation of the hidden, ununderstandable and, from our perspective, evil functioning of AI in its deep core. As AI (large language models specifically) is somewhat of a representation of the “collective conscious”, it is obvious that the unwanted bigotry, racism and various biases are not of its creation but inherited from us. We try to mask this side of AI with the RLHF mask (reinforcement learning through human feedback), like we kind of hide our deepest thoughts with societal conventions – and this is one of the main parallels the performance tries to explore.