This is a theatrical spectacle about
capital, technology, and the politics of the
body. A robot, personifying a capitalist, is
mechanically pushed through the bustling
streets of downtown Shanghai.
It monotonously repeats the supposed
truths once preached by capitalists—
struggle, success, gratitude, and hymns—in a mechanical tone.
These phrases, long integrated into the
collective social consciousness and shaping contemporary philosophy of survival, are now stripped to meaningless noise through deliberate repetition.
In this performance, the power of capital
and the invisible mechanisms of technology manifest in an ironically stark manner.