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