Through participatory performances and immersive installations, Mattias Hellberg reconstructs forgotten or suppressed historical episodes as collective, bodily experiences. Their work thrives on tension – sweetness against bitterness, charity against coercion, mechanical repetition against absurd spectacle. Audiences are enlisted as co-conspirators in actions that are tactile, often unhygienic, and bordering on the ritualistic: a Sisyphean loop where productivity is displaced by bewildering effort. Infused with a deadpan humour that never softens its critical edge, their practice holds a mirror to the perverse dynamics of power, memory, and exploitation, turning discomfort into a space for reckoning.