ANTON *

We live in an age of omnipresent schizophrenia as global capital creates divisions. Each of us is enmeshed in the system, willingly or not. The reality hidden behind the ideological curtain cannot be experienced, as ideology creates traps to keep us asleep in the fluffy dream of consumption: comfort means consumption. If one tries to leave the ideological space and do something against the system, one falls into the next trap and the supposedly good intention is swallowed up. To survive, you have to cooperate with capitalism in some way. And therein lies the schizophrenia: I don't like it but I cooperate.

As voluntary devotion to another person, love is the opposite of any ideology. Love appears opposed to consumption. Love also has nothing to do with schizophrenia. Therefore, love is political. It is resistance. For each one of us.

When love comes, I surrender. When it leaves, I surrender too.

Commissioned by Ensemble New Babylon and funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.