Eingeweide

What does it mean to create a truly autonomous machine, independent of human control? And what happens when organs live outside a body? Perhaps the human body’s only real power is to take on ever changing forms and identities.
“Eingeweide” is the staging of a ritual of coalescence. Inhabiting a desolated, surreal landscape, two human bodies become violently entangled with an artificially intelligent (AI) prosthesis, out-of-body organs, relics from computer server farms, and animal remains. The prosthesis uses AI algorithms to learn in real time how to move, exist, and perform on stage. The organs pulsate, leak, and crawl on the floor, bearing traces of the microbial cultures which created them. Sounds from the performers’ muscular activity are amplified and transformed by AI algorithms into a powerful and visceral auditive experience, submerging the spectators.

Eingeweide is part of the 7 Configurations cycle (2014-2019), a series by Marco Donnarumma on the conflicts surrounding the human body in the era of artificial intelligence (AI).

A production by Marco Donnarumma in collaboration with Margherita Pevere. Commissioned by CTM Festival (DE) and realised in the context of the Graduiertenschule, Berlin University of the Arts.