God’s Entertainment
Der beste Mensch von Amazon
In adapting collected Amazon reviews for the stage, the Viennese performance supergroup God’s Entertainment have found a poetic way to subvert the format that challenges the dictates of the algorithm and the prevailing technocratic attitude on a small scale. We award five stars!
“Selected Amazon Reviews” is a 700-page collection of reviews by author Kevin Killian written online between 2004 and 2019, the year he died – often on literature and films, but also on everyday objects such as household goods, medicines or toys.
The anarchic humor in misusing the review format seems to be tailor-made for God’s Entertainment, who have adapted the material for the stage. “Der beste Mensch von Amazon” boasts the audacious and exuberantly creative style the performance collective are known for.
Poetic resistance to the profit-driven techno-feudalism of major platforms becomes the starting point for exploring alternative scopes of action. When the object disappears, all that remains is the transaction. Instead of ownership, access is all that matters.
The criticism of capitalism notwithstanding, God’s Entertainment don’t infiltrate the online giant as a Trojan horse that destroys from within. Instead, they imagine Amazon as a piñata being smashed in raptures of joy.
“★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Der beste Mensch von Amazon (The best person at Amazon) is not a reflection of reality, but the reality of that reflection.”
Information
- Ticket: 28/23/14/12 €
- Artist talk on 24 April following the performance.
Halle G
Tanzquartier Wien
