In many dys/utopias blood is essential, this quite peculiar juice: Hallowed essence of life and guarantor of social order. Don’t you mess with the bloodlines, neither with strangers nor with your brothers! At the same time blood is a source of disgust. Blood is sicker than water. The soviet bio-cosmist Alexander Bogdanov imagined society as a collective organism, in which youth and wisdom would float freely – by blood-exchanges between young and old. He died by an infected donation. Vampires suck! Nowadays in Silicon Valley you get revitalising teenage blood for 8000$ and the myth of the bloodsucking rich guy, the ultimate OTHER, is revived by the 99%...
Autohemotherapy, a form of alternative medicine, promises cure by your OWN blood. What happens, when we capture this method to create self-sustaining and anthropophagic monsters? Will they generate short circuits in the bloodlines? Or is blood just the perfect sustainable food for our monadic entrepreneurial selves?

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Richard Pfützenreuter was born in the prairies of Eastern Germany. In 2004, he came to Berlin, studied theatre/performance as long as the authorities let him, worked in the social field and graduated about anti-national theatre in Austria. As he became bound to the city by some magic curse, he stayed and kept working at theatres like Volksbühne and Sophiensählen and with independent groups like EGfkA, Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen, MachtOhneBühne and Vanessa Stern. As himself they are dealing with Hauntology aka the traces of past and lost futures in present time. His solo performances are mainly struggling with ideology and biopolitics.