Post-Humanis the title of the brand new play that will be presented by the Collectifbus123 during the Journées de la culture Ontario, which will take place from September 24 to October 24.
Unlike the first presentation at the Fringue festival in Toronto which took place in a virtual manner – pandemic obliges – from July 21 to 31, the play will be played this time in hybrid mode! Understand by this that certain scenes will be broadcast live and onto which other images recorded beforehand will be added.
For those who are fond of the technique, the process consists of each artist sending their videos live, via a system of switching digital to a streaming! Ah! the technology of tomorrow.
The future is precisely what it is about in Post-Human. Indeed, and as its title indicates, the play proposes to travel in time, or rather to precede it, in order to explore the various futuristic scenarios which present themselves to humanity, futures where Man , the machine and artificial intelligence are one!
Add to that ancient gods who compete for the sake of humans, who have eyes and voices only for their robot masters, sprinkle it all with messages from a distant galaxy, and you get the recipe for a crazy show seen through a non-narrative and non-linear lens.
However, if the imagination of the authors of the play is “shameless” and boundless in the image of the multiverse, it is still far from meaningless.
As to what will become of “our humanity once it is so completely entangled with prostheses, algorithms and artificial bodies”, the same press release from which this question is taken answers it: the future of our children will be in the form of “a phantom humanity”. And, hate anyone who thinks badly about it, like those who plan, because the “progress” made today at the speed of light, especially in the field of transhumanism, gives serious food for thought.
SOURCE – Soufiane Chakkouche
PHOTO – An excerpt from Post-Human
