In the immersive installation VYRE, a powerful AI has learned to learn and left the Faraday cage of the laboratory. It combines electronic databases with organic knowledge formations, evaluates, influences and continuously generates new outputs. At breathtaking speed, the network is accumulating knowledge and moving out of the realm of human logic and perceptual ability. But how far are we willing to move away from being human? Fused with technology, in symbiosis with fungi, plants and animals, in self-experiments with hormones and hallucinogens, the protagonists of VYRE wrestle with the traditional concepts of being human. How attached are we to ourselves? Are we willing to cede decision-making power to an entity that simply decides better than we ever could?

VYRE 3 is the third part of a series about the fictional start-up VYRE. In a spatial installation consisting of three walk-through VR installations and two sound installations, SV Szlachta negotiates entanglements of humans, nature and technology as well as concepts of transhumanism.

Premiere: 26.06.2021 (27.6.&1.-4.7.21) / Wartenau 16 / Lichthof Theater / Hamburg

Trailer VYRE

Film VYRE


PRESS

Robert Matthies in der taz

Daniel Kaiser im NDR

Falk Schreiber für fidena


FURTHER LINKS:

VYRE on svszlachta.com

VYRE on lichthof-theater.de


CREDITS:
Concept: SV Szlachta (Amanda Babaei Vieira, Christopher Ramm, Lorenz Vetter, Wanja Neite)
Production: SV Szlachta
Scenography: SV Szlachta
Performance: SV Szlachta & Kotka Gudmon
VR-Animations: Lorenz Vetter
Technics: Lorenz Vetter
Costume: Amanda Babaei Vieira 
Sounddesign: Quirin Nebas
Website: Birk Jecht
Press: Wanja Neite & Kotka Gudmon
Assistent of Production: Kotka Gudmon
Poster: Quirin Nebas, Lorenz Vetter
Stage Technician: Nik Brandl
Robotics: Sebastian Arndt

We want to thank:
Lang&Breit, Simon Urbschat, Arthur Köstler, Birk Brennt, Markus Schmon, Waldritter e.V., timmersive, Abdoulaye Badji, Camilla Vengo Kinzonzi, Dulguun Chinchuluun, Geraldine Schabraque (Philip Lankes), Henrike Wolke, Ilona Perger, Luke Neite, Miriam Ebbing, Paul-Louis Lelièvre, Rebecca Moltenbrey, Robin Guillaud Bongarts, Vanessa Wunderlich.

VYRE was created in cooperation with the LICHTHOF Theater Hamburg and was
made possible by the funding Producing under Corona Conditions of the
Dachverband freie darstellende Künste Hamburg, on behalf of the Freie
and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Department for Culture and Media, by the "Nachwuchsförderung" of
the Hamburg Department of Culture and by the Hamburgische
Kulturstiftung. It was also sponsored by Firstrow.