Due to the CoCom embargo, hardly any relevant computer technology reached socialist states during the Cold War - at least not through official channels. The Stasi persuaded the Japanese chip manufacturer Toshiba, among others, to smuggle plans and components into the GDR. VEB Forschungszentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden finally succeeded in developing the 1 megabit chip together with VEB Carl Zeiss Jena. Antye Guenther takes the Toshiba scandal as the starting point for a speculative work in which a coffee service becomes a secret data carrier for highly sensitive information.

The performance takes place in the exhibition Robotron. Code and Utopia.

Antye Guenther, aka (baby) DATA DIVA, is a glitter-loving knowledge inventor and unreliable storyteller, born in a country that no longer exists. Rumor has it that she was once a guinea pig in Soviet brain experiments and now delights in questioning the conditions and fictionalities of Western knowledge and data regimes. With a penchant for mischief, she mischievously transgresses disciplinary boundaries, often while making cheap rhinestone jewelry as part of an ongoing collaborative "glitter-as-(communal)-care practice."