Prof. Dr. Nina Tecklenburg to present production Chatbot Challenge at Festival Cultura UNAM in Mexico City in October

Prof. Dr. Nina Tecklenburg and her performance company Interrobang will present their production Chatbot Challenge at Festival Cultura UNAM in Mexico City on October 8, 2026, followed by a tour to Guadalajara & San Luis Potosí, funded by Goethe-Institut.

Chatbots are theater machines: they engage in lively dialogues, take on roles, and express and evoke emotions. The piece Chatbot Challenge, that premiered in October 2024 at HAU Berlin, explores the societal effects of Artificial Intelligence by examining its theatrical qualities. In the show, Tecklenburg and Christiane Kühl perform on stage with AI systems and the creative coder Manus Nijhoff. By blurring the line between human and machine-generated performance, they ask the questions: How much theater is in AI, and how much AI-theater have we already internalized?

Concept: Interrobang; Devising: Christiane Kühl, Till Müller-Klug, Nina Tecklenburg and Team; Performance: Christiane Kühl, Nina Tecklenburg, Lara Domke, Artificial Intelligences; Dramaturgy: Lea Goebel, Anna Krauß; Collaboration Dramaturgy: Lara Domke; Creative Coding: Manus Nijhoff, Florian Fischer; Stage and Video: Theresa Reiwer; Video: Alexandre Silveira; Costume: Birke van Maartens; Music: Friedrich Greiling; Graphics: Jürgen Fehrmann, Julia Elger; Technical Direction & Lighting Design: Dirk Lutz; Production Management: ehrliche arbeit, Sandra Klöss; Company Management & Communication: Jack Willenbacher; Social Media: Jack Willenbacher and Selma Böhmelmann; Public Relations: Tina Ebert.

Production: Interrobang. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Schlachthaus Theater Bern. Funded by Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt und durch Mittel des Hauptstadtkulturfonds. The tour in Mexico is funded by Goethe-Institut.

Post Date: 07-03-2026