LILITH.AEON – SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands)
May 21 to May 23, 2026
12:00 to 10:00 pm CET
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
Pauwstraat 13A, 3512 TG Utrecht, Netherlands (map)
An interactive promenade experience between extended reality (XR), dance and artificial intelligence (AI)
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Drawing on the experience of personal bereavement and inspired by the real-life story of the youngest person to be cryogenically frozen, the immersive, interactive installation LILITH.AEON questions humanity's future in the age of transhumanism and artificial intelligence.
Spread across the walls of a monumental LED cube, the installation invites us to follow the life cycles of Lilith, a virtual being, a digital and poetic reincarnation, a soul trapped in limbo, suspended between death and a future awakening.
The installation encourages the audience to wander around the work in action, which comes to life through the encounter and interaction between the spectators' movements and the AI's choreographic responses, in a dance where human and machine respond to each other, in a performative ballet that is always new.
Through this visceral experience and an evolving narrative generated in real time, LILITH.AEON explores the new relationship we have with technology, particularly in the face of the prospect of transcending biological mortality. When our flesh-and-blood beings can be reduced, augmented or even replaced by digital data, what happens to our humanity and our finitude?
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