Recall : The Asian Girl 回憶：亞洲女孩
30mins
2022
“What should we do to love ourself entirely?”
Jun Qiang and Shih Han wonder how to fine “him”- the right person to finish the wandering with single state after many years. Jun Qiang met his past life - the Asian girl by hypnosis. She uncovers the blind spots of Qiang’s relationship and the barrier that he can’t love all himself heartedly. In this performance, Shih Han will invite his feminine avatar- Hannah to represent this Asian girl’s life, she will bring love, honesty and comfort to us tonight.
Recall: The Asian Girl is a work that combines film, video and performance. I met my past life who is a woman born in East Asia in 1955 through the hypnosis. Then I invite CHIEN Shih Han who is a drag queen and actor using his feminine incarnation Hannah, interprets the story of the woman in the theater. The performance also incorporates my and Shih Han’s personal chronicle, audience could review the scenes the East Asia's feminine subjectivity from 1980 until now across different time-space dimensions.
My past works reveal the mutual influence between individuals and collectives, and how does imagination and projection work within our daily lives. But we get the fresh perspective of “cross-dressing”and “hypnosis”. Cross-dressing or drag is not just about switching genders but also involves projecting oneself onto the character or being possessed by it. This is similar to the consciousness state of being hypnotized when one feels like "belonging to you yet not really you," which can help us step out of the our live and gain distance to reexamine our lives.
Through hypnosis, this work reveals how collective conscious influences individuals. The title "Recall" questions the authenticity of past lives within dialectical hypnosis. Did these stories truly happen before I was born ? Or are they constructed memories formed from novels, movies, news - all products of collective consciousness?
Artist : NIU Jun Qiang
Producer : TING Chao Hui
Co-creator : CHIEN Shih Han
Actor : Hannah Monica
Hypnotist : Carol LIU
Cinematographer : WANG Ai Ju, LEE Wei Chi
Line Producer : YANG Pei Lin
Digital Colorist: CY CHIU
Artist Assistant：LIN Pei Yi, HUANG Yu Chen
Producer Assistant : HSU Cheng Hao, LIN Zi Ning, YONG Hui Xin
Translation: Conor Stuart
The work is presented in “Islandbar-Ratava”at Taipei Performance Art Center’s opening festival
9/9 - 11, 2022
Curate by Joyce Ho and Cheng Hsien-Yu
Co-creation and Performance: Niu Jun-Qiang, Tuan Mami, Anchi Lin, Xin Cheng, Moe Satt
Performance: Jasmine Wang, Temi Nokan, Huang Fang-Hui from IMMA, Huen Sze-Man, Chien Shih-Han
Dramaturgy: Tang Fu-Kuen
Light Design: CY Chiu
Sound Design: Cheng Hsien-Yu
Technical Direction: Huang Chang-Chih
Associate Production Management: Chen Hsin-Jou
30 分鐘
2022
「我們該如何更愛自己呢？」
在多年的感情飄盪中，俊薔與詩翰都想知道怎麼做才能找到那個對的人。藉著催眠，俊薔看見前世裡那位女子，她的一生顯現了俊薔在關係中的盲點，和無法愛自己的原因。
詩翰將藉著Hanna，他的女性化身，詮釋這一位俊薔前世的女子，來和你們分享，關於愛、真實，與療癒的夜晚。
《回憶：亞洲女孩》是一件結合影像與劇場的作品。透過催眠，我遇見了自己的前世，一位生於1955年的東亞女子。扮裝皇后與演員詩翰，他以自己的女性化身Hannah，在劇場中詮釋了這個女子的故事，也加入了我（牛俊強）、簡詩翰成長的歷程，以及我們在成長過程中，情感的追尋。
我過去的作品以個體與集體的互相影響、想像與投射在我們的日常生活中作用。在《回憶 : ：亞洲女孩》中，觀眾以一種新的方式看變裝和催眠，這裡面都有一種角色轉換狀態，「扮裝」 不只是性別的切換，還有扮裝者對角色的投影、附身的狀態。這和催眠當下，被催眠者的「像是屬於你又不是你的」的意識狀態一樣，可以帶我們離開現狀，拉出一個距離重新看待我們的人生。
這件作品透過催眠，看見集體意識對個體的影響。前世可能是發生過的事，也可能是我們抓取集體意識下的縮影，變成我們生命故事的比喻。片名取為《回憶》，辯證催眠中的前世的真實性。這些故事，是我來到此世前，真的發生過的事情？而或是我的潛意識集結了小說、電影、新聞所有集體意識的產物，重新編輯而成的「記憶」呢？藉著導演、演員、導演的前世，看見東亞的陰性的主體，從1980 至今，不同時空中的的變化。
製片：丁肇輝
共同創作：簡詩翰
演出：Hannah Monina
催眠師：Carol Liu
攝影師：王艾如、李瑋琦
調光：邱程勇
執行製片 ：楊沛霖
藝術家助理：林沛儀、黃育晨
製片助理：許丞皓、楊慧欣、林子寧
翻譯：蕭辰宇 此作品發表於2022年臺北表演藝術中心《島嶼酒吧－Ratava》
2022/9/9 (五) - 9/11 (日) 臺北表演藝術中心 11樓排練室1
策劃：何采柔、鄭先喻
藝術家：牛俊薔、阮英俊（Tuan Mami）、林安琪、程昕、摩．薩特（Moe Satt）
現場演出：王世緯、白若瑜、IMMA（黃芳惠）、禤思敏、簡詩翰
燈光設計：周佳儀
戲劇顧問：鄧富權
聲音設計：鄭先喻
平面設計：何采柔
技術統籌：黃昶智
執行製作：程馨柔
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