2020

Almost completed, then interrupted: Dumb Type’s 2020 long remained a phantom work. Now it becomes reality. In a hybrid interplay of body, technology and sound, an image of our vulnerable, surveilled and over-informed world comes into focus.

In 2020, Dumb Type constructs a multilayered scenario of the global present. Artificial intelligence, surveillance, breakdowns in communication, climate crisis and geopolitical tension do not unfold as narrative but as a sensory field between technology and the living body. Language fractures into fragments; questions from a historical geography textbook are read by synthetic voices; dialogues tip into the absurd; screams rupture the silence. Meaning becomes unstable, communication precarious – a state of permanent overload in which information circulates without producing understanding.

The work moves within the tension between performance, installation and concert. Live performers encounter video, sound and algorithmic structures. The human body is not displaced but exposed: as a vulnerable, resistant element within a highly technologized environment. From this confrontation emerges a ritual space in which repetition, control and disruption interlock. 2020 thus becomes a contemporary ritual – not of order, but of imposition.