By Carl Emil Carlsen, Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm, Mikael Fock   ·   Show: Aveny T (Copenhagen) 03-16 Sep 2025   ·   Partners: Mikael Fock (director & script writer) , Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm (ai artist) , Carl Emil Carlsen (visual artist & interaction designer) , Luise Kirsten Skov (actor) , Mathias Rahbæk (actor) , Paul Khadra (composer) , ARTificial mind / Mathias Warnich, Cody Lukas Anderson (ai tech) , Vertigo / Jeppe Deibjerg Kristensen, Frederik Hilmer Svanholm (light artists & stage tech) , Rikke Juellund (costume designer) , Linnea Lorenzen Fabricius (dramaturg) , Daniel Fogh (cue master & sound engineer)   ·   Producer: Mikael Fock Productions   ·   Funding: Danish Arts Foundation, Hoffmann &Husmand fond, Knud Højgårds fond, Åge og Johanne Luise Hansens Fond

Will tech save us?

Our man-made climate and biodiversity crisis is here. Is paradise gone for good, or could technology offer unexpected ways of bringing us closer to nature? To explore this provocative question, we have invited two scientists, Adam and Eve, who — together with their AI — set out to conduct a series of experiments aimed at (re)creating paradise for us all.

Paradise is an experimental performance combining AI, stereoscopic 3D simulations, living plants, and human actors in a high-tech, hybrid exploration of our fractured relationship with nature. The theatre stage is transformed into a test chamber, blurring the boundary between the physical and the digital. Both actors and audience interact live with a conversational AI, confronting the question of whether tech will save us – or lure us into a synthetic wilderness.

“PARADISE asks the big questions: Is it too late to restore the balance between humanity and nature? Can we even communicate with nature, or is that an illusion? And if technology can help us, what does that mean for our humanity? The performance never succumbs to the temptation of giving clear-cut answers. It keeps us in the tension, where the audience must reflect for themselves. That is precisely its strength: we do not leave the theater with a lecture, but with the feeling of having shared a space of thought and sensation.” ~ Yde News, Sep 6th 2025, Danish trans. [source]