In 2042, characters named Claude and Octave are on a quest for independence, and plunge head first into tutorials, those videos with completely diverse and varying content and quality meant to bring us unlimited knowledge and skills in just a few clicks. A bit like director Morgan Spurlock, who, in Super Size Me, ate nothing but McDonald’s food for a month, Arnaud Boulogne and Sébastien Vial decided to use nothing but the Internet to learn how to do everything in life.

“How do you appropriate, distort or reject objects, techniques, uses, distances, institutions, and ways of being together?” ask the two artists. In a permanent learning space, this poetic yet crazy journey obviously reveals the limits, excesses and absurdity of the world. Is it all doomed to failure, this search for knowledge in all directions, the joy of learning and of learning how to do things, the desire for autonomy and “doing things yourself” in order to get away from consumer society?

In an hour-long performance, with all the sensitivity and finesse of Arnaud Boulogne and Sébastien Vial’s writing and acting (already evident in the magnificent Germinal and On traversera le pont une fois rendu à la rivière), Big Data Yoyo invites us to reflect on this together, unleashing a representative sample of the Big Data that makes up the knowledge of our time.