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SINGLES NEAR YOU: Foto by Toni Petraschk SINGLES NEAR YOU: Foto by Toni Petraschk

After a fully sold out premiere in May SINGLES NEAR YOU is back! Singles Near You is a performative cyborg story for the digital age. Taking inspiration from a day job at a pay-per-minute erotic chat, where sex, identity, and work uniquely collide, this bizarre premise is the starting point for an examination of (self-)image production, consent, and the blurring of work-life boundaries online.

As the sexy singles Helena (38), Michaela (29) or Daniela (28), a chat employee flirts and cybersexts with paying customers, mainly Michaels (45-65) – in chatroom the audience is invited to log into as well, transforming them from art consumers into a different kind of clientele.

What is the value of an (intimate) experience on the internet? How are the boundaries of the self reimagined online? Who is the human behind the machine?

These questions are at the heart of the employee’s conversations with her only confidante – a chatbot created in her own image.

As AI image generators are used as narrative devices and appropriated in a glitched form, Singles Near You hacks its way through the turbo-capitalist internet, finding in moments of system malfunction the possibility of reclaiming the virtual world.



Excerpt from MondayMovieTalk (15.06.2023) at ALEX Radio Berlin on 91.0 with Bettina Hirsch
  • Weitere Termine

    Mo. 23.10.2023 19:30 Tickets
    Di. 24.10.2023 19:30 Tickets
    Mi. 25.10.2023 19:30 Tickets
  • Premiere

    31.05.2023 at Berliner Ringtheater at PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL Berlin

  • Language

    English

  • Credits

  • Direction & performance

    Melanie Sien Min Lyn
  • Double actress

    Thu Trang Dong
  • Set Design

    Cochon de Cauchemar
  • Dramaturgy

    Dandan Liu
  • Animation

    Camilla Smolders
  • Technical direction and light design

    Lou Oelrich

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