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Marina Orlova \u2013 Human VPN \/ Someplace else (WT)<\/h1>\n

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During her residency, Marina Orlova explored virtual, physical, and political border crossings, as well as the state of dissociation from political reality, in which absence becomes a new form of presence. This research resulted in the production Human.VPN\/someplace_else<\/em>, which premiered in Amsterdam in April 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The artist spent three weeks in residence at the L.I.K. \u2013 Laboratory for Inclusive Culture studio in March 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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About the Residency<\/h2>\n

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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

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The artistic residency is supported by the Culture Moves Europe mobility grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Presentation<\/h2>\n

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On March 25, 2025, at 7 PM<\/strong> at the Un-Label Studio in Cologne<\/strong> Marina Orlova<\/strong><\/a> held the\u00a0lecture-performance “Who Do Robots Need Therapy?”<\/strong> presented in collaboration with KISD \u2013 TH K\u00f6ln<\/strong><\/a> and Un-Label<\/strong><\/a>. Marina presented 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

This lecture was based on research by EIAI Institute<\/a> (Institute for Emotional Integrity of Artificial Intelligence) – a project that investigates the intersection of technology ethics, data feminism and anti-psychiatry movement.<\/p>\n

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The performance took place in English spoken language.<\/p>\n

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Marina Orlova was in artistic residence at L.I.K \u2013 Labor for Inclusive Culture by Un-Label<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Artists<\/h2>\n

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Marina Orlova<\/h3>\n

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Marina Orlova<\/a>\u00a0is an independent dance\/theatre maker and tech dramaturg. After receiving education in sociology in Moscow (\u201809), Marina has been active as a self-taught dance artist and later moved to Amsterdam to study at SNDO at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance (\u201821). She presented her works at Frascati Theater, Veem House, Flam Festival Amsterdam, Next Level Festival. Since 2020 she has been working with AI, taking the role of mediator between AI engineering logic and theatre apparatus and creating anti-disciplinary performances on the crossover of mental health, AI ethics and Data feminism. Her other topics are migration and border politics.<\/p>\n

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Asya Deinekina<\/h3>\n

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Asya Deinekina\u00a0is an Amsterdam-based performer and choreographer. She graduated from SNDO department of choreography in 2023. Her artistic interests lie in the field of language and movement, their intersection and tension. Her performative work is rooted in strength and awareness in movement, physical theatre skills and her vocal research. She sees herself as a collective-oriented artist who searches for her way through the prevalence of individualism in the performance art.<\/p>\n

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Credits: 1) Konstantin Surikov, 2 + 3) Marina Orlova
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Un-Label\u2019s artist residencies provide artists with disabilities with the opportunity to realise their own creative projects while receiving targeted support. The\u00a0Labor f\u00fcr inklusive Kultur (L.I.K.)<\/strong>\u00a0in Cologne-Neuehrenfeld serves as a central space where artists with disabilities can connect, collaborate, and work in an inclusive environment. In addition to financial, personnel, and logistical support, the residencies focus on interdisciplinary and intersectional collaboration. Un-Label also partners with cultural networks to establish accessibility and long-term support for artists with disabilities within the arts sector.<\/p>\n

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