ARTIFICIAL MIND
Paradise
Is paradise forever lost? Or can we use artificial intelligence to understand—and perhaps restore—the nature we humans have destroyed?
PARADISE is an experimental performance blending AI, 3D animation, living plants, and human actors in a high-tech, hybrid exploration of the climate crisis. On stage, both actors and audience interact live with an artificial intelligence—the performance’s central character.
By merging digital and physical elements, PARADISE blurs the boundary between the natural and the artificial. The performance scrutinizes whether AI can deepen our human connection to nature—or make us lose ourselves in a synthetic wilderness.
The story follows two researchers on a surreal expedition through nature’s code, where a data-trained AI becomes their guide to animals, plants, and the vanishing idea of paradise. As climate catastrophe looms, they search for meaning in ecosystems simulated by machines. But as their journey deepens, one question remains: Is this a path back to nature—or the birth of a new, artificial paradise that can exist only inside the machine?
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PARADISE will play at Aveny-T from 5th to 16th September 2025 in Copenhagen.
PARADISE was created through a collaboration between artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm, visual artist and interaction designer Carl Emil Carlsen, and director Michael Fock.
AI Artist: Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm
Visual Artist, Interaction Designer: Carl Emil Carlsen
Director and Script: Mikael Fock
AI generated visuals, LLM & GPT programming by Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm’s art-tech studio Artificial Mind: Mathias Warnich, Cody Lukas, Asbjørn Olling, Emil Norsker & Jannie Haagemann
Performers: Luise Kirsten Skov, Mathias Rahbæk, Improvising Artificial Intelligence
Composer: Paul Khadra
Costume designer: Rikke Juellund
Lighting design and stage technology: Vertigo
Dramaturge: Linnea Fabricius
Press and communication: In The Garden
Producer: Mikael Fock Productions
With Support From The Danish Arts Foundation, Hoffmanns & Husmans Fond, Knud Højgårds Fond, Åge And Johanne Luise Hansen's Foundation