Wagner, we made your operas electronic! Come and party!


This summer Taipei will have three well received artists coming from different nationalities; the first is internationally recognized artist Anne Tismer, the second is multi-award winning musician Moritz Gagern, and the third is well known novelist, journalist, theatre director and playwright Jade Y. Chen. These three cross-border artists co-create a contemporary opera inspired by Wagner’s opera mythology. 
 
This piece is a deconstruction of Wagner. It also reconstructs Wagner, his myth, his art, and the connection between his art and Taipei. Tismer will create sculptures with wool and plastic materials, and Gagern will hand make instruments, compose the opera, and perform in it alongside a live orchestra. Chen will compose the play and use words/text to create video images and show pieces. These works will not only be used during the performances, but will also be presented as an exhibition to the public during day time. This is a groundbreaking performance combining an exhibition, performance, and electronic music party.

This play will be presented in the forms of theater, music, images, words, sculpture, etc., in Chinese, English, German, and French (mainly in Chinese). The performance will last between 90 to 120 minutes. The show space is open, and each member of the audience will move around in the space and interact with the three artists. After the show, there will be a party with electronic music that’s based on Wagner’s opera, connecting classical and modern, Germany and Taipei.


*Standing Room Only Tickets: 90 minutes without intermission.
After-party: 90 minutes





Jade Y. Chen
Jade Y. Chen is a multi-talented artistic figure of the Sinophone world who, for many years, has been based in Europe. She has taken on various roles, simultaneously acting as writer, actress, director, playwright and choreographer. She currently serves as the European correspondent for Taiwan’s United Daily News, as well as a freelance contributor to numerous German-language publications. In addition, she has been an organizer of large-scale international cultural events, curating a major theatre festival in honor of cultural collaboration between Taiwan and Germany. She has also served as an organizer for international programming at the National Theatre and Concert Hall in Taipei, curating the program “Made in Germany”.

Her novel, The Personals, is a bestseller that has been adapted into a play and a feature film. The Sea God Family received the Taiwan Literature Award and The Dream of the Red Chamber Award for a distinguished award for a novel in Chinese. It has been translated into various languages and published internationally, as well as adapted into an opera which was directed by Chen.




Anne Tismer
Anne Tismer is a performance and visual artist. She was born in France and is now working and living mainly in Togo, Africa. She has worked for many years with the German visual artist John Bock. Since 2003 Anne Tismer has created, amoung others, the following performance actions: Gutestun 1.3 (to do good) - also shown at Taiwan International Festival of Arts in National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center; Bei Mir ( to me); Bongani ; Anne-ka; TE falls on earth; Hitlerine; and Woyzickine. In 2006, the productions of Nora and Wunschkonzert which she played the main roles had been performed in Taipei.Her latest performance Non-Tutta(Not All) is invited by 2013 Avignon Festival.

In 2008 she started to work in Togo where she has performed with Togolese artists in: La fiancée (The bride); Judith Loméeeeiah!; Lomé En Couleurs Fluantes et Comme Marshmellow (Lome in Fluantes Colors and Like Marshmallow; Le Paradis Discret du Mille Pattes (The Discrete Paradise of Centipedes).

In 2010 she exhibited her first solo exhibition in NAK (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein) :  Körperzentralhaltestelle (Body Central Station).

In 2009 she was the first foreign artist to receive the Belgian prix special de la critique (special critics award).

Her artwork has documentary and pseudoscientific character; sometimes like a lecture, sometimes childish. Tismer uses everyday materials including plastic, wool, old newspaper, cardboard and chainlink in her representations.




Moritz Gagern
Moritz Gagern lives in Berlin as a freelancing composer. His concert works have been performed at European festivals, and he wrote compositions for musical theatre, dance theatre, and visual installations. Besides his musical education (student of Bones Patterson and Carlo Inderhees), he holds a Master in Philosophy. His musical theatre, Lovesick, was nominated as piece of the year in "Opernwelt 10/2010". For the musical theatre project, Synchron City, he got a grant-in-aid prize by the Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikstiftung 2009. In 2001 he was stipendiary at the Academy "Musiktheater heute", in 2010 at "Deutsche Studienzentrum" in Venice.

The composition of "Approaching the Habitable Zone" by Moritz Gagern will feature the world premiere at Big Bang Wagner.


Start Boarding Theatrical Productions
With a traveler’s adventurous energy, endless curiosity, and creativity, Start Boarding Theatrical Productions will take the audience along for an exploration filled with heart.

Artists    Moritz Gagern, Anne Tismer and Jade Y. Chen
Produced by    Start Boarding Theatrical Productions
Producer    Yi-Chieh (Monique) Wu
DVJ    Jin-Yao Lin
Performers   
Co-ordinated       
Sponsor     Dream Community
Photo copyright © Sheng-Ying Quo and Ping Hsu


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