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ROBOT NAO

Premiere: 2017

Author: Dejan Srhoj
In collaboration with
Script: Slobodan Maksimović, Dejan Srhoj
Nao Robot Programing: Vid Podpečan
Set Design: Teo Kajzer, Sara Slivnik
Construction of Nao’s Home: Jaka Mihelič
Produced by: Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija

Co-Produced by: Kino Šiška & CoFestival

Supported by: The Jožef Stefan Institute and the Creative Europe Programme of the EU, the project DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON
“Nao, the Robot” was initially developed for the INNODAY project at Expectrum in Sweden. 

Special thanks to: its project leader, Nina Božič.Robot Nao is an installation-performance in which we meet the robot Nao and are welcomed into a contemporary, everyday environment. In a confessional genre, he shares with us his worries and joys in the same way a friend or neighbor might do.

The author bestows the robot with a contemporary form of a romantic identity, thus repeating the first such gesture made in the history of the fantasy literary genre by Mary Shelley with Frankenstein, though perhaps with only a slightly ironic and humorous twist this time. Srhoj is interested exactly in the hypothetical twist in which technophobia becomes profane and the robot acquires a human subjectivity, including all the bizarreness that it is usually accused of.