andcompany&Co. – HYPERDARK – “If the kids are divid:ed …”

In the organizer's words:

In "HYPERDARK", andcompany&Co. examine the omnipresent political confusion of our time - between excessive demands, manipulation and digital acceleration. In a mix of lecture-concert and live radio play, the theater collective with artists from various disciplines asks how one can still think, breathe and act in this hyperpolitics.

Everyone is confused, hyperactive, burnt out and constantly excited at the same time. andcompany&Co. too! Unfortunately, this general state of affairs hardly leads to mutual understanding. On the contrary. Is "confusionism" the calculated work of right-wing and/or super-rich villains or the sabre-rattling of the zeitgeist? Are there still people behind it or are they rather machines that have taken on a life of their own? With "HYPERDARK", the Berlin theater collective andcompany&Co. has developed a hybrid of lecture-concert and live radio play. Together with the poet Elisa Aseva, the video artist Kathrin Krottenthaler, the animation artist Hila Flashkes and the visual artist Raul Walch, they ask: When did this "hyperpolitics" start? What happened that suddenly not only the personal is supposed to be political, but also the political is supposed to be personal? Has it ruined us like this? And above all: how on earth can we work, think and breathe in such a time without contributing to the general confusion?