某种类似于我的地洞：心室片段
Heart Chamber Fragments

What does it mean to receive a new heart? How does a home become a prison? What is an animal’s underground burrow? For a devised play, the Paper Tiger Theatre Studio from Beijing and the Kammerspiele ensemble are embarking on performance-based research into the labyrinthine systems under our skin and under the ground. At the same time, they are exploring how current medical technology accesses the human body.

The project brings together three texts: Jean-Luc Nancy’s “The Intruder”, Franz Kafka’s “The Burrow” and Tao Yuanming’s “The Peach Blossom Spring”. All three focus on questions of isolation and exclusion, immunity and identity, the relationship between the perception of the body and the experience of space, and extreme feelings of nameless fear and overflowing joy. Kafka tells of the obsessive securing of an underground system of passages (the burrow) against imaginary enemies; in “The Peach Blossom Spring”, a hidden, utopian community is imagined beyond space and time; and Nancy describes an intruder that makes it possible to survive: the transplanted heart in his body.

We would like to thank the following for their support:

Dr Tian Baiyu, Dr Dominique Hertzer, An Jian, Dr Fan Jingyang, Prof Bernhard Michael Kemkes, Prof Juan Valdés-Stauber, Dr Zhu Zhihui

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut China