The performance is the first upgrade from PPKK 04.00 which was site-specifically conceived in 2017 for the concert ‘Mythology, Electricity and Music’ in Munich. The event was located in the Herkulessaal, a monumental concert hall rebuilt in the 1950’s in austere neoclassical style and containing large-scale tapestries depicting the twelve labours of Hercules.

For that occasion, PPKK had mapped out a constellation of frequencies based on the concert hall’s mythological symbolism within Germany’s brown times. To do so, the artist duo developed a musical instrument consisting of seven turntables. On each player spins a record whose sound is a single continuous note, each one having its own scaled tone: an abstract soundscape of field recordings extracted in industrial cow farms. By abusing the 33/45 (brown numbers) speed controller on the record players which alters the pitch of every note to a perfect fourth, a composition of musical waves was performed by a female bodybuilder.

For his 5th labour, Hercules had to entirely wash the largest and dirtiest cow stables in ancient Greece. The shit in the stables had not been cleaned for decades, making the task impossible to accomplish in the required time. Hercules found a solution to this complicated mess by redirecting a river through the stables. In the coliseum-like rotonde of the MAC, in honour of the so-called impossible task of accomplishing our duty to achieve a greenhouse-gas-free civilization, PPKK once again adopts Hercules’ strategy of using waves to clean shit.