Forced Entertainment
Signal to Noise
INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION / UK
For the past 40 years, the British performance collective Forced Entertainment lives through the same social experiences as we do: tragic, hard, dubious, and funny.
In Signal to Noise, we see alienated humans at the borderline between the physical and the artificial; imprisoned in computer-generated phrases, which human bodies seem to reproduce unemotionally, like impersonal societal conventions. How does the body react if voice, language, content, and expression are predetermined?
The Forced Entertainment bodies insist on playing: they put on costumes and wigs; they continuously disorganise and reorganise the stage in ever-new useless and absurd arrangements with unquestionable seriousness – the more absurd the arrangement the more serious they get. A painfully comical choreography of out-of-tune communication between words and body language, resonating sad questions such as: Is this my hand? Is this my voice? To what extent is what we think, what we are, AI-produced? Signal to Noise draws a sublime and disturbing picture of our limited and distorted mental state.
26 June Post-show talk with the artists.
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