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Human VPN is a future dance performance about virtual, physical and political border crossing and the state of dissociation from political reality where absence is the new presence. The artist has been a guest at the L.I.K. \u2013 Laboratory for Inclusive Culture studio for three weeks since early March 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”\u00dcber die Residenz” module_id=”raum” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The project intersects the topics of border politics and technology: centralized digital border control systems, VPN tools, virtual expression as political action. VPN is a tool to misrepresent digital location. Dissociation is a coping mechanism of emotional detachment from reality. In our information society reality and virtuality blend. Social media gives an illusion of witnessing catastrophic events elsewhere and reactions of others, it misrepresents the location of migrants and displaced people. Movement across territories seems virtual as web surfing, physical presence or absence become convoluted. Are we more present when doom scrolling or avoiding the news, protesting cruel regimes in a free country or hitting \u201clike\u201d to photos of local protesters? Human VPN is a way of mismatching the virtual and physical presence of one\u2019s body or mind to escape political reality.\u00a0 During the research phase together with collaborator Asya Deinekina, Marina Orlova will focus on investigating how technology can be translated into the body and exploring performative aspects of dissociated state within political, digital, and psychological spaces as a way of hacking borders \u2013 literal and metaphorical.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The artistic residency is supported by the\u00a0Culture Moves Europe mobility grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text : Pr\u00e4sentation” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n WHY DO ROBOTS NEED THERAPY?<\/strong> <\/p>\n March 25, 2025 | 7:00 PM | Un-Label Studio, Hosterstra\u00dfe 1-5, Cologne<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Join us on\u00a0March 25, 2025, at 7 PM<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0Un-Label Studio in Cologne<\/strong> for the lecture-performance “Why Do Robots Need Therapy?”<\/strong> by Marina Orlova<\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0presented in collaboration with\u00a0KISD \u2013 TH K\u00f6ln<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Un-Label<\/strong><\/a>. In this event, Marina will present fragments of her performance \u201cI’m a Robot and I need Therapy\u201d<\/a>, including a therapy session with a mentally unstable\/neurodivergent AI patient and an open focus group.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This lecture is based on research by EIAI Institute<\/a> (Institute for Emotional Integrity of Artificial Intelligence) \u2013 a project that investigates the intersection of technology ethics, data feminism and anti-psychiatry movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The performance takes place in English spoken language.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nAbout the Residence<\/h2>\n
Presentation<\/h2>\n
A lecture-performance by Marina Orlova<\/p>\n