Lake Studios Berlin

In this lecture performance, we will offer stories that won’t make people work harder. On Work is our way of navigating the question: What stories can we tell to escape, even for thirty minutes, the trauma of exploitation through wage labor? We will present narratives aiming to disrupt stories that validate oppression through romanticizing work.    
“A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and his progeny.” Paul Lafarge, The Right To Be Lazy, Saint Pélagie Prison, 1883.
Based on an original idea by William Ruiz Morales, the Lectures by The Idiot are developed, composed, choreographed, and performed in collaboration with Gabriela Burdsall.