The Big Break | Trade Sachs

In the morning, you wake up and fatigue welcomes you to a new day, a day you already didn’t feel like facing yesterday. At irregular intervals, a mobile phone demands your attention, and your feed overwhelms you with trivial jokes and the latest news of disasters from around the world. You want to be a positive voice that speaks of the winds of a new world, and every day you get up to create a better life for yourself, your loved ones, and others. Your actions feel like just a drop in the ocean. But you don’t give up, you go to the extreme, and you also see how the people around you do the same. Doubt. Am I doing the right thing? What is it? Do I need to try harder? Am I too slow? We’re running out of time… Panic. You push it away to be able to face your everyday. In the evening, everything is as usual, just the fridge is a little emptier. You look in the mirror and see two exhausted eyes. The person in the mirror says, “I can’t go on.” You wave it off and get into bed. A quiet thought accompanies you: Maybe the world would be better off if everyone did a little less…

The next generation must be faster, smarter, better than the previous one, and for centuries we have been accelerating the world. At the same time, our fears of impending catastrophes seems to further restrict our tolerance for mistakes. We are supposed to run with broken pieces before we have learned how to walk. And please don’t cut yourself. Good luck and thumbs up.

Trade Sachs is being completely honest and says: We’re fed up. We’re concerned, we’re angry, and somehow we don’t know what to do anymore. We want a break – not just for ourselves, but for all the exhausted people in this world. We proclaim: THE BIG BREAK – let’s give an entire generation time to process the traumas, dismemberments, pains, and fears of the last 500 years. Let’s give ourselves space to sit down and ask ourselves what this whole circus is all about. Some time without feeling a pressure for profit, technological progress, creative reinventions, and “improvements” that make things worse. Let’s give not only ourselves but also our fellow creatures and our planet time to rest from the ride of the last centuries. It doesn’t sound sexy, and it shouldn’t.

Trade Sachs and Tojo Theater invite you to an interactive break for the season opening of 2020/21. Just come and take a rest with us. We promise to work little and share what we have achieved with all of you. If Corona has taught us anything, it’s that nobody was really excited about the world that came to a halt. So there’s absolutely no reason to resume the destructive fanfare. How things will continue – even in the theater – no idea. Do we need to know that now? Especially if we’re not even getting paid for it? No desire. #notheaterwithoutmoney #ntwm

What we desire: to see all of you again. To hang out with you. To slow down with you. And then to embark on a new era with all of you.