Drehmoment

We all perform tasks every day and find ourselves in routines and processes without questioning the background and real goals of our actions. Since we can think, we have learned that you do things the way you do them, but rarely the actual reason behind it. Therefore we repeat them over and over again and follow a seemingly invisible purpose. By doing this we become a part of the mill. The mill which must keep turning. Work becomes an end in itself and without questioning it, we all enter this cycle.

The piece "Drehmoment" takes up these very processes and illustrates their absurdity in the context of a sound performance. The performers take on different tasks such as drawing circles, turning a mill or filling a vessel, which is emptied at the same time. The performers become part of a self-created cycle. All concentration of the actors is related to their task, which repeats endlessly and aimlessly until it is finally over. The sounds produced differ according to the task and change again and again. Each person contributes his or her own sounds, which, when mixed together, create a large sound picture. An interruption of the activity is followed by silence. Even if the tasks do not lead to a higher goal for the individuals, they are in their sum essential for the continuity of the system.

The end in itself is decisive for the preservation of the capitalist system in which we live. Many little noticed routines and cycles in our everyday life are no coincidence. Without them the system would come to a standstill and collapse. These routines serve the maintenance of capitalism, which in turn is based on and relies on inequalities.

What does this say about the goals of the seemingly mundane circuits in our everyday lives? And who are these tasks and routines really for?