Formerly Known As
URLAND
Performance collective URLAND plays with artificial intelligence (AI) and questions what art means in digital times. Are we still needed? Using cloned voices and a script generated by ChatGPT, URLAND experiments with AI. Or is AI experimenting with URLAND? Formerly Known As is a surreal, Blade Runner-esque meta-performance that explores the shifting meaning of art. Performed in English.
In Formerly Known As, the performance collective URLAND investigates the role of art in a digital world. They collaborate with artificial intelligence and ask big questions: What is art worth if AI can create it too? And who really has control—the human or the machine?
The performance is a surreal and alienating theater experiment, full of cloned voices and a script partly written by ChatGPT. The boundary between real and artificial blurs. You watch a collective that, together with AI, creates a performance about a collective that, together with AI, creates a performance... and it repeats itself. A meta-narrative centered on the core question: what does it mean to be human in a world full of technology?
The style is reminiscent of sci-fi classics like Blade Runner. It is a dark, futuristic world where anything seems possible. At the same time, it’s humorous and playful, with sharp observations about our time. AI is everywhere: in our phones, in art, in daily life. But what if it takes our place as creators?
The performance raises questions without giving ready-made answers. Is this art or can it be discarded? What happens to us when we no longer see the difference between real and fake? And if creativity is no longer uniquely human, what makes us special?
URLAND plays with these themes in a thought-provoking way. They take you into a world full of confusion, recognition, and surprises. Maybe you see yourself in the creators or their doubts. And who knows, maybe you leave the theater with a new perspective on technology and creation.
Formerly Known As is a performance about the collision between creator and creation, between human and machine. An exciting, clever, and sometimes confusing experience you won’t forget anytime soon. This performance is in English.
Website: urland.nl
