Residentie: Human VPN: Someplace_else

Marina Orlova

Sat 17 May ’25 16:00

A presentation about borders, technology, and how we navigate an increasingly digital world.

Sat 17 May ’25

16:00

Sat 17 May ’25

16:00

Nes, 71

Frascati, Amsterdam

Studio 2

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During her residency at Frascati Producties Marina Orlova explores how one might detach the virtual and physical presence of their body and mind in order to escape political reality. Human VPN: Someplace_else is a graffiti-performance about physical and virtual movement through both literal and metaphorical borders.

In the current information society, reality blends with virtuality, and absence becomes the new presence. Social media gives the illusion of witnessing catastrophic events elsewhere, while misrepresenting the locations of migrants and displaced people.

Movement across territories can feel as virtual as web surfing. Online, physical presence or absence becomes relative.

While the idea started from Marina's own migrant experience, this performance steps beyond the personal to look at border crossing form a variety of perspectives. Next to migrants themselves, also their observers, supporters and those who are left behind are taken into account. This brings it to a universal level that anyone can relate to.

Location: Studio 2, Nes 71
Not wheelchair accessible

About Marina Orlova

Marina Orlova is an independent dance/theatre maker and tech-dramaturg based in Amsterdam. After studying sociology and cultural studies in Moscow, Marina moved to Amsterdam and graduated from SNDO in 2021.

In her work, Marina blends dance, theatre, and technology, using tech as a tool for storytelling. Her esthetics is autofiction, tragicomedy and absurdism.

In addition to themes like mental health, AI ethics, and data feminism, she also explores topics such as migration, border politics, and virtual political expression. In November 2024, her latest performance I’m a Robot and I need Therapy premiered at Frascati. Her current artistic practice also includes writing, teaching and facilitating a support group for 'artists in distress'.