Among the leading figures on the international theatre scene, the acclaimed Polish director Łukasz Twarkowski returns to the LAC with his new work, Limina, an exploration of the meaning of being human in a post-human world governed by a superintelligence.

Latent space is one of the main tools through which artificial intelligence makes sense of the world: a mathematical space in which data is encoded, models learn patterns and generate new outcomes by moving between points and relationships.
In Limina we encounter six characters trapped in such an environment. They appear to possess consciousness and, amidst the mathematical chaos surrounding them, their human relationships – fragile, perhaps even banal – begin to reveal themselves as surprisingly authentic.
This space is governed by a Model, a sort of demiurge far from perfect, forced to learn constantly from the world it has generated in order to evolve. Over time, it becomes clear that it does not fully understand the characters: it observes them, explores them, investigates what it means to inhabit a body, learns from their behaviour, perhaps in an attempt to draw ever closer to them. The characters are thus trapped in an endless experiment: but will they be conscious enough to break its logic?
At a time when our society is wondering what form a superior intelligence will take, Limina turns the perspective on its head and poses a more subtle and playful question: what will human consciousness look like when superintelligence is already among us?