Commissioned by Cross-TIC, a theatre production is set up with a ‘living’ tiny house as set, stage and character. This house will walk on robotic chicken legs (think Baba Yaga‘s hut meets an AT-ST) and will be on the run for the incoming tide.
During the course of 2024, Lumi has been developed and put out there in the wild, developed as theatre production (Theatre on Tour), a number of pop-up performances (Gogbot 2024, Heimland Festival 2024), a short movie and art exhibition (Mollerwerf). Also a website has been developed, which can be found on https://lumini.nu
A prototype (1:10 scale) of the house has been shown at an exhibition at B93 for the ARE residency project of Monika Reut. The goal is to develop this house as living, moving technology – and develop narrative, stories, pop-up performances and a (non-linear) theatre concept, also as Cross-TIC open call. Climate, community and artificial intelligence are the major themes for the story. Also during the artistic process AI will be explored as development tool.
Currently, the house is under development. One of the main goals of the cross-TIC call is to develop interesting (new) formats for audience engagement and interaction, beyond being a ‘spectator’ at a linear performance. More info for the call in this pdf.
This was a first version at GogBot 2014 – a very succesful autonomous robot: It got around by social engineering rather than clever AI. Every time the house would hit a curb, people would jump from their terrace seats and give the house a push..
Eventually the story took a more realistic turn in 2025 where Lumi appeared on a number of festivals such as WHY2025 and Koppelting, not -just- as theatre set but also as inhabitable / inhabited space.