Cyberia is real!

The Internet is broken. It has proven its worth as a medium of disappearance. The next thing to disappear will be the term “internet”. andcompany&Co. has fled from the manic machines into the dessert and into the ruins of a defunct data centre. Hidden among the dead data the Berlin collective tries to make a connection to a long gone past. In memory of the long-forgotten socialist origins of the internet, they have replicated the control room which Allende had set up shortly before Pinochet’s coup: that “communist machine” which was to control the whole economy in real time. But in the echo chambers of the disused web, haunting voices of its socialist origins are still to be heard – from a time before the web was conquered by an army of trolls and controlled by social bots. “At last, el pueblo!”

"... ausdrucksstarkes Bühnenbild [...] gedankendichte Performance [...] Kann es im großen Freiraum des Netzes überhaupt Kontrolle geben? Ist kontrollieren dasselbe wie beherrschen? Ist unser Kopf die einzige Mitte? Und was nützt alle digitale Kommunikation, wenn die analoge Welt so unberührt ungerecht bleibt wie je?" Berliner Zeitung

Konzept & Regie: andcompany&Co.
Von & mit: Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord, Sascha Sulimma&Co.
Text: Alexander Karschnia&Co.
Bühne: Jan Brokof&Co.
Video: Kathrin Krottenthaler
Kostüme & Mitarbeit Bühne: Franziska Sauer&Co.
Lichtdesign: Sebastian Zamponi
Ton: Mareike Trillhaas
Regieassistenz: Verena Rebekka Katz
Technische Leitung: Holger Müller, Marc Zeuske
Company Management: Monica Ferrari