The Cloud

The Cloud
The Cloud
Arkadi Zaides

The Cloud

18.12.25 — 18.12.25

‘The Cloud’ by choreographer and researcher Arkaida Zaides reveals the toxic impact of artificial intelligence in a gripping mix of installation art, theatre and dance.

When transcribed into the digital domain of artificial intelligence, reality continually reconf igures itself beyond recognition. What was once naively seen as a way to document testimonials with clinical accuracy — a reliable representation of the real — is now melting down before our eyes, decaying into an incomprehensible entity that constantly transforms itself: a paranoid machine.

The Cloud is both an investigation into the toxic cloud that the broken reactor at Chernobyl spewed into the air and an investigation into data residing online in the cloud that fuels artificial intelligence. 

What is the singularity of the human body in this improbable yet inevitable clash of two clouds? Where do we locate the body’s inherent fragility and its post-human resilience? Where does the malignant potential for its inevitable deterioration lie, and what has happened to the promise of its post-apocalyptic redemption?

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Practical info

English
Language
English

Dates

Thu 18.12.25 — 20u00

20u00

NTGent Minnemeers
Tickets

They saw the play and said:

  • Against this digital universe that absorbs the memory of the disaster, of the misery, of the suffering, stand the human body, which remains upright

    Etcetera, Read the article

Credits

Choreography & direction

Arkadi Zaides

Dramaturgy

Igor Dobricic

Artificial intelligence & sound design

Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos

Cinematography

Artur Castro Freire

Performance

Arkadi Zaides, Misha Demoustier / Roger Sala Reyner, Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos

Light design

Jan Mergaert

Administration & Production

Simge Gücük / Institut des Croisements

Executive production

laGeste

Coproduction

Montpellier Danse (FR), Maison de la Danse, Lyon - Pôle européen de création (FR), Charleroi Danse (FR), Mousonturm (DE)

Support & residencies

CAMPO (BE), PACT Zollverein (DE), Orbita | Spellbound National Production Center for Dance (IT), Dialoghi / Villa Manin, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia (IT)

Initial research conducted within the framework of

SoundImageCulture (SIC) supported by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and VAF - Vlaams Audiovisueel Fund

With the support of

TMU New York; The Ministry of Culture of France / Directorate General for Artistic Creation; City of Ghent, Flemish Authorities and the Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter measure through Flanders Tax Shelter; A.R.T. research and residency program by La Comédie de Valence, CDN (FR)

Dates

Thu 18.12.25 — 20u00

20u00

NTGent Minnemeers
Tickets

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