It’s a little rich that a choreographer who regularly suspends her naked dancers in the air by hooks gouged into their flesh, so that blood drips from their wounds and audience members vomit and faint, would be aiming her latest spectacle against “humans interfering with nature to the point of perversion.” But perhaps only someone capable of “turning destructive ideas into stage art as ruthlessly and provocatively as she does,” as one presenter enthused, is equal to confronting world-sized damage. For A Year Without Summer, Florentina Holzinger anticipates climate change by 200 years. The Austrian auteur heads back to 1816, when Europe spent the summer buried in snow, among other bizarre worldwide weather events, and Mary Shelley crafted a novel about a doctor who devises a hapless monster from corpse parts. Holzinger’s large, regular crew of freak show and circus artists will “become guinea pigs for the extreme weather conditions that she unleashes on them.” Before the year is out, A Year Without Summer will have titillated and revolted spectators from Berlin to Vienna, Hanover, Hamburg, Antwerp, Stockholm, and Krakow. Cities are sure to be added in 2026, when the 39-year-old commands a national platform at the Venice Biennale. She will be one of the few performance artists to have done so. —Apollinaire Scherr