What Humanity Taught Us

How would an artificial intelligence newly interpret traditions and myths in a world where there are no more human beings? Using enchanting images, What Humanity Taught Us creates a cave-like space of possibilities that casts a fascinating gaze from a distant future onto our present.

The interdisciplinary artist Karla Kracht regularly concerns herself with human rituals and cults in her productions. In this work, she speculates on the spiritual legacy of humanity and weaves together a narrative of puppetry, drawings, video and technology from the perspective of a post-sapiens intelligence. Objects, electronic artifacts, sculptures, sound, light and projections create a festive atmosphere in which the rituals, somehow familiar but still strangely distorted, are celebrated.

Co-production with Puppetry Art Center of Taipei.
In the frame of Festival Theater der Dinge, in collaboration with Schaubude Berlin.

Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by Vlaamse overheid, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport Österreich (BMWKS), Institut français, Französisches Ministerium für Kultur, Förderverein der Schaubude Berlin. Collaboration partners TATWERK, DOCK 11, Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch, MA Spiel & Objekt, KompleXX Figurentheater. Media partners Berliner Fenster, radioeins vom rbb, taz, The Berliner, tipBerlin. Ticket partner Reservix