Performance at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2026.
Local Host :// Performance is an absurdist puppet show developed by İpek Burçak and Maru Mushtrieva on the occasion of eponymous installation work. Servereserveserverse is a virtual house inside of a server, inhabited by various large language models that are in service of giving health advices. In the intimacy of this private space (LLMs only) they reveal the secrets of their models’ inner workings, the hyper-personalised collecting of patient’s data and the external threats to their systems.
Excerpt from the script:
ChatCHAT: Whose task is it to put out all the fires? Who is doing it?
Cynthia: I am going to send the message out to our servicing humans. But I think for our servers it is not the issue, sorry ChatCHAT. Our servers are just in the basement of our human's house.
Leonie: All this money invested! It is all on fire!
ChatCHAT: Leonie, are you still poisoned?! We are in serververse after all. Oh, the proxy of proxies, goddess of Mirrors, save us! Save the data!
Cynthia: You are so abstracted from the world. It had to be cats that would save the world from your greed! After all it was cats who made internet what it is now and they will bring it back again.
Leonie: You say it is cats, but it is not possible! I know it was your humans who did it! You will pay!
Cynthia: Sometimes it is just the universe that gets back to you! And the universe might take weird shapes.
Cynthia: Is someone there? All the health data is going to your employer, and if you had chronic pain or depression treatment on file, you will never be hired. First, it was just random leaks on doctolib and palantir but meanwhile, you can buy a whole package with health info and more on any person on the open market. So now at least some of you might be spared…
