Dreaming Collectives. Tapping Sheep/
Träumende Kollektive. Tastende Schafe
(State 3)

By Daniel Wetzel

State 1-4
With their series State 1–4, Rimini Protokoll set out to explore fields outside of what can be organized and controlled by the nation-state today. Rimini Protokoll look back at the essence of the powers whose separation was once intended to form the essential mechanism for monitoring state structures. To what extent are these powers still able to regulate the decisive impetuses for change faced by societies?

Dreaming Collectives. Tapping Sheep / Träumende Kollektive. Tastende Schafe (State 3)

Welcome to the year year 2048. Humanity is finally being managed digitally from now on. There is no violence anymore. For that IRIS takes over control over all our weaponry. There are no traffic accidents anymore because IRIS controls it. Democratic participation happens through digital feedback. What you click is what you vote for. IRIS measures the outcome. Democracy has become liquid and continues to be theatre - every show a laboratory session with 120 spectators in a cloud. Their decisions turn into sound in the end. Their data have turned into clouds.
From a starting point in Athens where democracy just lately seemed to fail, Daniel Wetzel and Ioanna Valsamidou explore potentials and dangers of the digitalisation for the processes of democracy.

Concept, script, direction: Daniel Wetzel
Co-author: Ioanna Valsamidou
With: Kostis Kallivretakis, Vassilis Koukalani
Stage: Magda Plevraki
Software System Design and Implementation: Dimitris Trakas (VIRA)
Music, Sound Design: Lambros Pigounis, Peter Breitenbach
Light, Technical Director: Martin Schwemin
Dramaturg: Julia Weinreich

Director assistance, Research: Andreas Andreou
Assistance, Research: Annette Müller
Director assistance: Nora Otte
Stage assistance: Natasha Tsintikidi, Anna Alma Quastenberg
Assistance Szenographie: Guy Stefanou
Gui design: Renia Papathanasiou (VIRA)
Video-Animation: Grit Schuster
Video: Mathias Oster
Live Statistic Video: Caspar Schirdewahn
On the Video: Detlef Rohrmann
Voices: Rosa-Mathilde Muck, Oskar Loßnitzer, Zoï Wetzel

Production manager State 3: Violetta Gyra, Paula Oevermann
Project coordinator State 1-4: Jessica Páez
Third Eye, Dramaturg State 1-4: Imanuel Schipper
Produktionsassistenz Rimini Protokoll: Anna Florin
Produktionshospitanten: Mathias Oster, Caspar Schirdewahn, Dimos Klimenof, Vassilis Lianos, Konstantina Ypsilopati (CGS Athen) inspizienz Norman Schaefer

A production by Rimini Protokoll and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden

State 3 is part of the series State 1-4, a cooperation between Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Münchner Kammerspiele, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Schauspielhaus Zürich, and Rimini Apparat, as part of 100 Years of Now, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media due to a ruling of the German Bundestag. State 1 was co-initiated by the Goethe-Institut.