#digiteatteri: Faster, easier

16 Dec.

#digiteatteri: Nopeemmin, helpommin (Faster, Easier)is a technology-critical, escapist and dreamy queer play that explores the connection between two people, forgetting and glitches.

Two people meet at a pond.

"How do I feel that I've known you longer?"

This begins a series of encounters in which the liberating lightness promised by the white noise is mixed with the weight of the flesh. The tearing zone of reality. Spaces in which both get lost. Enclosures that want to crack. The skin of the other reflects questions that have no answers. Wanting so badly, to reach, striving so hard, to reach.

Perhaps the ease is found in the fragments, in the vibration of another body / / layers / / .

Faster, Easier is the premiere written by Milka Luhtaniemi, whose text is partly produced by artificial intelligence.

Screenplay by Milka Luhtaniemi
Directed by Maria Oiva
On stage by Fanni Noroila and Peppi Hokynar
Set design by Jyrki Pylväs
Set design by Jyri Lahelma and Pasi Pakula/Aalto studios
Music by Alsa Ojala
Lighting design by Elina Nopanen
Costume design by Jyrki Pylväs, Sini Parviainen
Pre-production Aku Meriläinen

Funded by Kone Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

#digiteatteri is a new theatre concept that redefines the way the performing arts are used and performed to reflect today's digital reality. It seeks new ways and definitions of encounter.

Faster, Easier is the third work in #digiteater's Queer AI project.The aim of the project, which began in 2017, was to create an AI that understands the diversity of gender and sexual orientation, to produce a performance around this process, and to contribute to AI development and research.