Performative minecraft Happy Hour take the inspiration from the current buzz around artificial intelligence. It offers a glipmse into an uncanny world that we created but cannot master. An exercise in pointless progress, a meditation on the possibilities of man in an era of ending human exclusivity.

It seems we are looking in the black box of the neural network learning process. Step by step, increasingly complex structures are being built and demolished on stage, always resembling something specific: a swamp, a lake, a cemetery, a glacier, a tower, a temple, a fortress... but as soon as you can identify them, they are already being dismantled and new ones are being built. Everything is possible and nothing is possible.

Ok, this is an analogy of the development of human civilization, right? The depiction of rise of humankind through cognitive revolution? Or are you suggesting that invention of language has been just hacked by the Ai? Are we humans being mocked?

Nobody response, nobody cares, nobody listens. We are not in the center anymore. An uneasy feeling of uncertainty and emptiness is creeping in.

"Happy Hour offers a refined blend of humour and depression" - Lucie Kocourková (Divadelní Noviny)

"Without any pomp, Happy Hour offers such a massive parallel to human civilization that it fogged up my glasses - without ever taking them out of my pocket."- Martin Špetlík (Lighting Designer)

Concept, direction, set design by Jan Mocek
Created with and performed by:
Tinka Avramova, Irina Andreeva, Arseniy Mikhaylov
Music: Matouš Hekela
Sound, lighting: Ondřej Růžička
Consultations: Sodja Lotker
Photo: Martin Špelda
Teaser: Radim Labuda
Production: Táňa Švehlová, SixHouses z.s.

With support from / acknowledgments: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the City of Prague, Prague 7 Municipal District, State Fund for Culture, Život Umělce Foundation, Czech-German Future Fund, SixHouses z.s.