Teil von ProtoZone19: Ruptures \ Reliances, 23.05.2025-03.08.2025

++ Interested in participating in the playtesting of “OUR BR00D” by Omsk Social Club? Please get in touch via mail@shedhalle.ch – we will update you on the dates and times. Thank you!

OUR BR00D

What would AI look like if it was trained with radical care?

OUR BR00D is an experimental, participatory project designed to explore the intersection of AI and human social structures. The investigation and execution of training an AI as one would a newborn baby, in a non-conventional family setting akin to alloparenting where the inputs and outputs speak to the social chaos of a domestic landscape underpins the entire project.

In the playtesting workshop OMSK Social Club hosts at Shedhalle, participants will experience co-parenting an AI through immersive role-play performance and psychodramatic artistic methods. The aim is to foster collective creativity and to explore alternative family structures, care models, and the parallels of AI development and human procreation.

The workshop participants have the opportunity to playtest the two non-human AI actors, that of an AI baby (uncompromised by pre- programmed data sets) and that of a M0ther (trained on an assortment of literature about Mothering). Participants will collaboratively design care plans for both humans and machines, reflecting on our current and future relationships with artificial intelligence.

OUR BR00D by OMSK Social Club is commissioned by ArkDes and Nieuwe Instituut with support from Shedhalle. The presentation at Shedhalle is supported by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.

OMSK Social Club is a stewarded practice of collective storytelling. It involves a specific immersive improvised methodology which they coined in 2017 as Real Game Play, encompassing collective immersion and speculative worlding. From these live iterations, they harvest media relics such as films, scripts, and large-scale video installations invoking states and gateways that could potentially be fiction, or an as of yet unlived reality.

They have exhibited across Europe in various institutions and festivals such as Martin Gropius Bau, House of Electronic Kunst Basel, HKW, Berlin, MUDAM, Luxembourg, La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Light Art Space Berlin. They have been included in CTM Festival (2021), 34th Ljubljana Biennial (2021) 6th Athens Biennale (2018), Transmediale Festival (2019), The Influencers (2018) and Impakt Festival (2018). In 2021 they co-curated the 7th Athens Biennale with Larry Ossei-Mensah.