Terra Refrigera
Terra Refrigera, built beneath the ice cap of Antarctica, in which an artificial climate has been created. In this city everything is organized through government channels. The artificial lighting, for instance, goes on and shuts off at fixed times.
The city is stricken by an epidemic: a mysterious virus affects the brains of the inhabitans, the result being that they develop telepathic sensitivity. After a while the inhabitants realize that the only potential for privacy lies with their feelings and intuition; the heart does not speak in thoughts. Instincts are sharpened, forced by the circumstances of the diseasse. Emotion becomes superoir to intellect.
Fuga Futuri deals with the factor time and the experience of time.
But what is time? Time is power. Time is space. Time is an abstract notion, which cannot be reduced to a single common denominator. The consistency of the clock is merely an imperfect compromise. As a consequence of the disease, the objective reading of time gives way to a subjective experience of time. In Terra Refrigera, where everything is arranged down to the least detail, a deluded reality unfolds.
