Luftmasse: Zukunftsfantasien (2026)
气团：未来幻想
这个作品启发自德国作家阿尔佛雷德-德布林出版于1924年的《群⼭，众海和巨⼈》
这部交响乐式的⼈类纪未来史诗描述了27世纪中叶，在科技僵化⽽巨⼤的压迫下出现的“⽔和⻛暴学说”——空⽓和⽔是⽐国家和众⼈更具有威⼒，更超凡持久的东⻄。⼈类只有放弃个体⽣活并成为植物般的群体，才能在地球上继续存活下去。
小说以“事实幻想” (Tatsachenphantasie)方式 ，以欧亚交界的群⼭之间爆发的乌拉尔战争开启洪⽔般的叙事——对科技优势怀有绝对信⼼，并早已放弃国家名称的欧洲⼈被后来居上的亚洲联合体打败。在⾮洲裔混⾎移⺠领导下的幸存者跨越众海，去往欧洲的北⽅尽端——格陵兰岛。在这⽚新的殖⺠地上，后普罗⽶修斯式的技术精英如蚂蚁般集合⼯作，融化冰盖引发了核弹反应级别的地质效应，并释放出史前古⽣物。超级⽣物技术打破⼈类与⾮⼈类之间的隔阂，合成新的巨⼈……
This project is inspired by Alfred Döblins Berge, Meere und Giganten (Mountains, Oceans, Giants), published in 1924. Although written a century ago, this speculative novel unintentionally resonates with the political, ecological and social transformations unfolding in Europe and across the world today.
The novel imagines the world in the 27th century – after a devastating world war and the destruction of nature. Finally the survivers cross vast oceans in search for a place for new settlement: Greenland. In order to make the territory colonizable they decide to melt the icecap for getting access to the heat of the Earth from the Iceland’s volcanoes. But nature strikes back and from the uncovered land grotesque monsters composed of flora, fauna, minerals, and bones of dead creatures under the ice rise up. Among others new living beings consisting of air masses appear like swarms and devour complete ships…
Döblin vividly develops the motif of nature, in which, after repeated technological evolutions, completely new and powerful manifestations emerge that are capable of literally engulfing humanity. The rapid development of new technologies has brought humanity to a turning point.
Paper Tiger follows in this production Döblin's pressing question of what will happen with the world caught in a storm of reconfiguration. Fragments from the novel will interact with the physicality and fragility of dancers/performers.
The air masses within this storm hover above everyone’s heads.
