new horizons: eternity für alle!
andcompany&Co. feat. Arbeiter*innentheater
“Comrades – let’s optimize it!”
Computers should have controlled the production in real time. Nothing came of it. The market took over. Everyone only optimizes themselves. But information wants to be free. It blows up every system: first socialism, then capitalism. Even in the GDR there was a Silicon Valley, in Schwedt, the “city of the future”. There the revolution broke out fifty years ago – the STR (scientific-technical revolution). In a petroleum processing plant, computers were networked for the first time. And automation was tested. The piece “Horizons” about the “introduction of electronic data processing into human relations” (Heiner Müller) was written with the workers of the plant. Only the “networked individual” of the early 21st century knows what this means: The wall had to come down so that we could get Facebook. But the network has long since been dreaming the wildest dreams of the old revolutionaries of a new humanity that will live forever. Together with members of the former Workers Theater, andcompany&Co. have retreated into a cyber forest to rehearse for immortality:
“…I optimize you, you optimize me
And if it doesn’t work out we play theater
And one plays the other and it works
And tomorrow communism will break out…”