We are too tired, like two sinking suns. (2026)
For two cellos and live electronics
“The exploiter is simultaneously the exploited. Perpetrator and victim can no longer be distinguished."
Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han
“From dawn to dusk we work, we hunt. We cannot stop, unless the desert we dare to venture deep within is vast enough.” — Ni Zhange
Two cellos.
A plastic knife scraping against strings.
Two band-aids muting the bow.
We are too tired, like two sinking suns is a meditation on the exhaustion of the modern soul. When productivity is internalized, we become a machine that cannot find the "off" switch. The sounds, props, gestures are metaphors for the deep feeling of burning out. The plastic knife represents a persistent pain; the band-aid represents a temporary, suffocating fix.
We are the knife. We are the band-aid. In the friction between the two, we ask: When will we take a break?
The 35 minutes work consists of 5 movements:
I. Solo (The Band-aids)
II. Solo (The Knife)
III. The Drowning
IV. The Burnout
V. Ave Maria
