Susanne Sachsse / Marc Siegel / Xiu Xiu (Jamie Stewart)
YOU’RE SO PARANOID, YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS RADIO SHOW IS ABOUT YOU
A Musical Broadcast Entertainment Service
Radio play / Commissioned work
Susanne Sachsse / Marc Siegel / Xiu Xiu (Jamie Stewart), YOU’RE SO PARANOID, YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS RADIO SHOW IS ABOUT YOU: A Musical Broadcast Entertainment Service (2020), radio play, image: Courtesy of the artists
Dates
18.10.–31.12.2020
Location
Paranoia TV
Production specifics
Commissioned by steirischer herbst ’20
Produced by Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel and Xiu Xiu in coproduction with steirischer herbst ’20
What becomes of the body in a moment of intensified social and governmental control? It might be lacking skin, hands, lips, or face, but its immune system is certainly highly refined. Yet what might that mean? Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel and Xiu Xiu provide an answer of sorts to this question, drawing a paranoid poetic-theoretical arc through history. Their point of departure is a recent essay by theoretician Paul B. Preciado, written after being ill with Covid-19, who postulates that a new form of Deleuze and Guattari’s “body without organs” is emerging today. As this body searches for experiences of collectivity, new viral strains bombard its linguistic immune system. Conspiracy theories aren’t especially helpful. They might ward off unpleasant surprises, but they won’t help us get out of bed.
With: Maximilian Brauer, Vaginal Davis, Salome Gersch, Gotthard Lange, Susanne Sachsse, Angela Seo, Şenol Sentürk, Marc Siegel, Martin Siemann, Pola Sieverding, Jamie Stewart
Retrospective
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