ATMEN von edgarundallan

In the organizer's words:

Echoes and motifs from The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

First take a deep breath and exhale slowly. The arduous climb up the mountain puts pressure on your lungs. Breathe in again, breathe out. It hurts and stings with every breath. But despite the pain, it feels like you can finally breathe properly again. Up here, the air is clearer, almost pure.

In a remote sanatorium in the Swiss mountains, people seek refuge from the air of a poisoned world full of particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and nanoparticles. As hope and resignation mingle in every breath, the community staggers inexorably towards catastrophe.

Over 100 years ago, Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain - a story about illness and the intrusion of a catastrophe into a world that was thought to be safe. In our interpretation, we bring the respiratory diseases of the 21st century back to the Magic Mountain and contrast them with the environmental catastrophes that are robbing us of the air we breathe.