The internet is broken. It has proved to be the medium of disappearance par excellence. The next thing to disappear is the term ‘internet.’ andcompany&Co. has ed away from the manic machines and into the desert, into the ruins of an abandoned data centre. Hidden among dead data the Berlin collective attempts to forge a link to a past that has disappeared. In remembrance of the forgotten socialist origins of Big Data, they have constructed the control room that Salvador Allende had built just before Pinochet’s coup: that “communist machine” that was meant to guide the state and a national economy in real time. Voices still haunt the echo chambers of the disused internet from a time before the net was conquered by an army of trolls and was dominated by social bots: “At last, el pueblo!”

“Can there even be any control in the huge free space that is the Internet? Is controlling something the same as ruling over it? Is our head the only centre? And what is the point of all these digital communications when the analogue world remains as unchangingly unfair as it ever was? These are good questions, with which our three performers crawl ever deeper into the billowing Internet kraken, and slowly, through their talking, trace out his contours from the inside. ‘I distract therefore I am,’ cries Karschnia at one point in a flash of wit, and thus already comes close to the second, productively complex performance.”
(Berliner Zeitung)