Revolution. The Foe Of An Arrow Wound

Name: Revolution. The Foe Of An Arrow Wound
Start: 2025-01-17T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-17T19:50:00+00:00
Location: Humboldt Forum

革命：幽灵的箭矢

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	20 EUR, reduced 10 EUR, 16 EUR for Tanzcard holders
	English, German, with surtitles
	Duration: 110 min
	12 years and older
	Ground Floor, Hall 2

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A Chinese scroll painting like a scene from an action movie: a horseman shoots a warrior galloping in front of him with bow and arrow. The transcultural Paper Tiger Theater (Berlin – Beijing) has been inspired by the scroll painting Machang Lays Low the Enemy Ranks in the collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst. In their dance-video-installation-performance the artists span an arc from the Chinese imperial wars and their celebration in the imperial palace to the colonial loot of Beijing in the so-called Boxer War in 1900 to the China of today. Five dancers and actors meet a contemporary witness of communist party General Secretary Honecker’s China trip, a skateboarder meets a percussionist, video art meets costumes for everyone.

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Performance (2025): Raul Aranha, Simon Chatelain, Oksana Chupryniuk, Thomas Halle, Shengnan Hu (percussion), Li Xinyi (DJ), (Hans-Jürgen Schreiber, Mieko Suzuki (DJ), Wang Yanan, Xu Yiming

Direction Tian Gebing, Choreography Wang Yanan, stage Eva Veronica Born, Dramaturgy Christoph Lepschy, Jan Linders, Curator Chen Shuyu, Music Mieko Suzuki, Hu Shengnan, Costume Design Chen Shuyu, Tian Gebing, Video Design Andreas König, Julia Kuhnert, Daniela Prochaska, Program book editor Chen Shuyu, Collaborating Artist Andreas Gedin

Assistant Director Li Jingwen, Assistant Stage Designer Lioba Bangert, Assistant Costume Designer Lam Ophelia, Aline Suter, Maria Yasinover, Collaboration Costume Making Noemie Cassagnau, Yan Thung Ho, Elena Popva, Edgar Schlüter, Choreography Assistant Xie Yuchen, Translation Li Binyao, Surtitles Nora Rose, Xie Yuchen, Artistic Coordination Liu Chao, Video Recording Tong Xin, Jiang Dingding

We see the fatal moment of an act of war: hit by an arrow and painfully bent, a Dzungarian horseman flees at full gallop. Behind him, also on horseback, a Manchurian officer of the imperial army, Machang, bow in hand, is about to send another arrow after the fleeing man. The picture scroll “Machang Lays Low the Enemy Ranks”, which will be on display again from April 19th until May 8th 2023 in the Galery China and Europe, China’s Court Art in the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (3rd floor), was created in Beijing in 1759 and is part of a large-scale propaganda program commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor (1736-1795) from his court painter Lang Shining alias Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) after the conclusion of the victorious campaign against the Dzungars (today Xinjiang). It was intended to glorify the imperial expansionist policies of the Chinese Empire in the northwest and south of the empire. The Italian Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione had lived in Beijing since 1714. Although he was not able to pursue his missionary activities there as originally planned, he became a court painter who was highly esteemed by the emperor. Through routes that have not yet been clarified, the painting arrived in Berlin either as a result of looting during the “Boxer War” of 1900-1901 from Beijing or as a result of the turmoil during the revolution of 1911 from Shenyang via Hamburg in 1914, where it is now part of the collection of the Museum of Asian Art in the Humboldt Forum. Its provenance, along with other works from the Imperial Palace in German museums, is currently being further researched.