| Sneak Preview of audio walk and artist talk
11 October 2025 15.00-18.00 hrs – 24ZUID – Zone2Scource, Amstelpark, Amsterdam Premiere later at Zone2Scource and other green locations in NL and abroad Step into The Last Human – an immersive audio walk through Amsterdam’s Amstelpark, where you are the last human on Earth. Armed with only your phone or tablet, you wander through the park while voices of plants, animals, and machines watch your every move. Are you a memory from the past, a clone, or the last of your kind? This teaser invites you to glimpse a world where social norms, power structures, and obligations have vanished, and where new spaces open for change towards interconnectedness and inclusivity. In this fragile future, your footsteps and imagination shape the story. What makes you human? For 24Zuid, theatremaker Petra Ardai / SPACE will introduce the work at 15.00, offering context before or after you enter this visionary fiction experience, as the audio teaser will be accessible the whole day ( in Dutch). Team: Petra Ardai (concept, text, voice), David van der Heijden (sound and music), Bloem van de Linde (creative producer) , Sophie Leferink (artistic and business strategy) With support of AFK, Stichting Doen and Lira Fonds. The last human is the chosen one, a survivor, a refugee, the last specimen of his kind, the representative of humanity, the person responsible for the legacy, a living being among all other living beings, machines and non-human entities on earth. Similar to the main character of The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, the last human realizes that they, she, he is left alone. The last human has no time to be afraid but must completely reinvent himself in order to survive. The last human an has no time to be afraid, but must completely reinvent himself to survive. What would you do if you were the last human on earth? The Last Human experience takes the audience on a journey into a radical what-if experience, offering space to overview our current world with all its social structures, conventions and value systems. The audience is invited, as the last humans on earth, to rethink their relationship with being human, nature, other life forms and machines; to imagine a story in which humanity reinvents itself. “It is if you first become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or grass or a flower. It takes time, but once the butterfly lets its guard down, you can become friends quite naturally.” – Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 The Last Human is not a doomsday scenario, but a playful search for the possibilities that reveal themselves when all known structures and stories disappear.
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