IT'S ALL FORGOTTEN NOW - A performative mixtape for Mark Fisher

In January 2017, the British cultural scientist and pop theorist   Mark Fisher took his own life. He became known to a wider audience through   his work “Capitalist Realism” in which he addresses the widespread   view that there is no alternative to capitalist reality. Fisher diagnosed a   cultural exhaustion syndrome resulting from the collapse of temporality: the   end of the world can be imagined, but the end of capitalism cannot.

While technological development has been accelerated by the   Internet and related communication devices at a pace that is difficult to   grasp, cultural progress has slowed to a standstill.

Consequently, Fisher sees the signs of exhaustion not only in   the political and cultural operations of neoliberal societies but also on an   emotional level. In the faces of his students, in apocalyptic Hollywood film   sets or reality shows.

He did not want to come to terms with this and repeatedly   demanded resistance:

“The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of   reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist   realism.”

Fisher analysed rare Jungle records, obscure soundtracks, as   well as films or books by contemporary authors. A music mix he put together   had the same value as an essay.

With this project we try to create a performative mixtape which   deals with some aspects and concepts of Mark Fisher.

Phenomena like hauntology or the strange and mysterious (the   weird& the eerie) express themselves not only politically but also   aesthetically.

They find their expression in music, film and dance and are the   starting point for the piece.

Due to the corona crisis, many dancers* of the company could not   arrive, but are connected from outside. They are the “ghosts” of   this work and become a virtual part of the performance.

A circumstance that Mark Fisher would certainly have liked.