AKc

AKc (working title) is a stage choreographic essay about the “possible” state of things – a speculative, realistic reflection of capitalism in capitalism, a reflection of the emancipated beast. We stopped financial capitalism intending to keep it at a disciplined and controlled distance, but it managed to (or is well on the way to) emancipate itself. We feel the presence of something alien behind our backs, of something unbearably monstrous that we can neither locate nor name. Banking crime? Exploitative capital? Or greedy corporations?

The capital increasingly appears as an additional player, independent of all the humane, while the human becomes the fundamentally “redundant”, to which capital is indifferent. We are witnessing the development of extremely fast, mutant and violent capitalism that “is no longer tethered to traditional, pre-capitalist institutions” – “where manual work used to be, there are now robots; where money used to be handled all that remains are derivatives; where intelligence was once natural it is now artificial; where before there was ideology in the form of a discourse, now there are computer algorithms” (Primož Kraševec). The finalisation of capitalism is thus not the extreme exploitation of the working class, but the emancipation of the circuit of production and consumption that follows the autonomisation from everything human. If yesterday the theory of accelerationism lived merely in the utopian landscapes of philosophers, visual artists and other theorists, today it is establishing itself in the brutally real territory of contemporary neo-reactionary politics, for example, of the United States of America.

The authors Sebastijan Horvat, who has received numerous awards for his directing at home and internationally, and Milan Marković Ramšak, a renowned dramaturg, playwright and screenwriter, will this time create a production as a “choreographic” physical matrix that will avoid drama and narrative. This immersive theatre experience will, with its sensuality, convey the political dimension of reality.

Heat. This is what big cities mean to me. You get off the train, leave the station, and you're hit with all its force. The heat of the air, the traffic, and the people. The heat of food and sex. The heat of tall buildings. The heat that flows from the underground and tunnels. In big cities, it's always ten degrees hotter. The heat rises from the sidewalks and falls from the poisoned sky. Buses exhale heat. Heat radiates from the crowds of shoppers and office workers; the entire infrastructure is based on heat, desperately consuming heat, giving birth to new heat. The final thermal death of the universe, which scientists love to talk about, is already on its way, and you can feel it happening around you in every large or medium-sized city. Heat and humidity.

_{Don DeLillo in Nick Land, Meltdown}