2025臺北藝術節：蘇珊娜・甘迺迪 X 馬庫斯・塞爾格《安琪拉拉拉（無限循環中）》

photo by Julian Röder

打開後人類劇場感官：沈浸在ANGELA清醒又迷幻的夢裡

安琪拉，一名網紅，看似在鏡頭前完美的生活，從出生到日常瑣事都鉅細靡遺的重複展示。這場無盡的循環，暗示著一種深層的空洞與存在，而當安琪拉罹患一種原因不明的神祕疾病，身體逐漸失控、感官變得模糊，她的世界開始崩解與變形之際，觀眾也將跟隨安琪拉，經歷一場從日常跌入異常，在失序中尋找轉化契機的迷幻旅程，既是一場映照人類數位生存處境的鏡子，也是一趟深入後人類意識核心的感官旅程。它不提供簡單答案，而是以藝術形式與深刻的思考，提供一個反思自身存在處境的獨特視角。

聲音延遲，感官斷線 ──  劇場語法全面重寫

✶一場介於現實與虛擬之間的未來主義表演——葡萄牙《JPN》
✶蘇珊娜・甘迺迪的戲劇，就像一場迷幻之旅般美好——比利時《De Standaard》

德國導演蘇珊娜．甘迺迪（ Susanne Kennedy ）與視覺藝術家馬庫斯．塞爾格（ Markus Selg ）聯手打造劇場革新之作，透過面具與唇形同步（Lip-synching）的表演手法，將台詞預先錄製、經過處理，讓演員僅是在舞台上準確對上口型，這種刻意的「身聲分離」，直接瓦解了我們習慣的、那個內外統一、情感真實的「角色」；在這裡，角色可以是沒有動機的，它更像是一個被媒介操控的介面、一個失去內在聲音的軀殼。

數位投影的流動：打破穩定的劇場空間，觸發新的感官體驗

《安琪拉拉拉（無限循環中）》（ANGELA (a strange loop)）的舞台並不是一個提供背景的「佈景」，隨著劇情的推進，觀眾可能走進了安琪拉的房間、廚房、叢林甚至是儀式現場，當3D建模的物件和演員穿梭交錯，房間的柱子可能隨時瓦解，下一秒叢林的灌木又因此重生。安琪拉就在一個不斷變換的空間裡掙扎——隨著空間的轉換她混亂、失序、找不到真實的自我，觀眾很難用傳統的方式去「理解」或「同情」安琪拉，反而更像是被邀請進入她那個有點迷幻、甚至令人不安的感官世界。

▶《安琪拉拉拉（無限循環中）》  演前導聆：9/12（五）、9/13（六）

▶《安琪拉拉拉（無限循環中）》  演後座談：9/12（五）

歐洲劇場大獎導演
蘇珊娜．甘迺迪（Susanne Kennedy）｜德國

劇場導演，畢業於阿姆斯特丹戲劇學院，是當代歐洲劇場界最具代表性的導演之一，以實驗性劇場風格聞名。作品受古老儀式和哲學思考影響，挑戰傳統戲劇敘事，經常使用面具、預錄聲音和多媒體技術，探索人類與機器之間的界線，戲劇風格帶有強烈的視覺與聲音元素，創造出催眠般的感官體驗，讓觀眾質疑現實的穩定性與藝術家馬庫斯．塞爾格（Markus Selg）長期合作。

歐洲劇場視覺美學重要推手
馬庫斯．塞爾格（Markus Selg）｜德國

多媒體藝術家，創作涵蓋舞台設計、雕塑、影像藝術、沉浸式裝置和VR虛擬實境。創作結合古老神話與數位技術，探索人類意識在當代社會的變化。2009年與導演Werner Herzog、藝術家Jannis Kounellis 共同策展《太陽的痕跡》（Spuren der Sonne）；藝術作品曾展出於德國現代美術館、慕尼黑戈茲美術館、倫敦薩奇美術館等。

【演出暨製作人員名單】

編導：Susanne Kennedy

概念與舞台設計：Markus Selg

演出者：Emma Petzet、Ixchel Mendoza Hernández、Kate Strong、Tarren Johnson、Dominic Santia

配音：Diamanda La Berge Dramm、Cathal Sheerin、Kate Strong、Rita Kahn Chen、Rubina Schuth、Tarren Johnson、Susanne Kennedy、Ethan Braun、Dominic Santia、Ixchel Mendoza Hernández、Marie Schleef、Ruth Rosenfeld

音效設計與剪輯：Richard Alexander

音樂創作：Richard Alexander、Diamanda La Berge Dramm

影像設計：Rodrik Biersteker、Markus Selg

服裝設計：Andra Dumitrascu

戲劇構作：Helena Eckert

燈光設計：Rainer Casper

音效技術：Max Heesen
影像技術：Stefan Korsinsky
燈光技術：Lea Schneidermann  

藝術合作與巡演統籌：Friederike Kötter

舞台助理：Lili Süper

藝術服裝助理：Anastasia Pilepchuk、Anna Jannicke

製作單位：ULTRAWORLD PRODUCTIONS

巡演經紀：Something Great

製作管理：Philip Decker

技術統籌：Sven Nichterlein

舞台製作：Stefan Pilger

國際巡演事務：Rui Silveira - Something Great

巡演經理：Niki Fischer - Something Great

共製單位：Wiener Festwochen, Festival d'Automne à Paris & Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe, Festival d'Avignon, Holland Festival, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, National Theatre Drama / Prague Crossroads Festival, Romaeuropa Festival, Teatro Nacional de São João and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

支持單位：荷蘭阿莫多基金會（Stichting Ammodo）、德國聯邦文化基金會( German Federal Cultural Foundation )、德國聯邦政府文化及媒體委員會 (German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media)

特別感謝：歌德學院（台北）德國文化中心、德國在台協會

共同主辦：臺北市政府、臺北表演藝術中心

【About the Performance】

“What makes ANGELA, ANGELA?” Director Susanne Kennedy and multimedia artist Markus Selg want to know. Using the collective experience of individual vulnerability from the last several years as a backdrop, they zoom in on ANGELA's life in search of possible answers, following her from birth to death and beyond. “ANGELA (a strange loop)” is a case study in what it means to be human today: What marks do history, personal bonds and society leave on us? It is a close-up of a woman's life, a meditation on illness and belonging. The journey accompanies ANGELA through everyday situations: waking and sleeping, being born and giving birth, aging and death. And finally, we see her fall ill. Are ANGELA's mysterious symptoms transforming her, or are they simply changing the way she looks at her life so far? ANGELA is made up of millions of experiences, some of which were told to her by others. Ultimately, she might be nothing but a strange loop, an endless sequence. What becomes visible as we zoom further and further in on ANGELA's life? All social states and digital worlds are connected by her perception. Everything she dreams, hears and thinks, everything unfinished, unspoken, and unprocessed manifests itself in space and becomes a reflection of her inner turmoil, like a state of constant inflammation. Just as the world appears to be in endless turmoil, with open burning wounds and nonstop agitation, reigniting itself on its own feedback loops. Hyperinflammation becomes an all-encompassing condition. ANGELA's head and body are the setting, the landscape, the stage. As her dreams take shape, she is forced to face them. In their artistic practice, Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg explore the potential that exists between bodies, technology, art and rituals. Pursuing a post-humanist aesthetic and taking a multimedia approach, “ANGELA (a strange loop)” takes us on a deep dive into the fundamental questions of existence, identity, consciousness and the nature of reality. It is a poetic, social analysis through the lens of the diseased rather than the healthy. How can a community deal with the individual's experience of illness. How do we live and how do we die together? How do we care for each other, when life comes to an end?

【Artist Profile】

Susanne Kennedy | Germany

Susanne Kennedy (1977) is one of the most distinctive voices in European theatre. Her pieces are a radical invitation to act out the real. She explores the blurry line between actor and machine. In her theatre work, performers wear masks and speak with pre-recorded voices. Through perceptual shifts and the constant blurring of hypnotic images, Kennedy interrogates the stable representation of reality. She pushes the limits of theatre and turns to the medium’s archaic ritual roots in order to ask deep and at times confrontational questions: Who are we? What is our reason for existing in this world? How do we relate to our own demons? Kennedy studied theatre studies in Germany and France. In 2005, she completed a directing degree in Amsterdam. Together with visual artist Markus Selg, she designs spaces that resemble virtual corridors in videogames or colourful psychedelic hallucinations.

Markus Selg | Germany

Multidisciplinary artist. His scenographic installations condense video, sculpture, architecture and performance into immersive spaces. Ritualistic stages that create a new dynamic between archaic myths and digital technologies. 2009 he staged the exhibition course "Spuren der Sonne" with Werner Herzog and Jannis Kounellis. His feature film "Das Ewige Antlitz" premiered 2012 in Prague. 2015 Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem showed his retrospective exhibition "Primitive Data". His works are in collections of the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Sammlung Goetz, Munich and the Saatchi Collection, London. Since 2015 he works closely with theatre director Susanne Kennedy. For example „Coming Society” and “Ultraworld” 2019/2020 at Volksbühne Berlin. For “Ultraworld” Selg received the Faust Award 2020 for best stage design. 2020 I AM (VR) their joint Virtual Reality Experience premiered at Theater Commons Tokyo, 2022 they staged the opera „Einstein on the Beach“ by Philip Glass at Theater Basel.

【Creative and Production Team】

Concept, text and direction: Susanne Kennedy

Concept and stage design: Markus Selg

Performance: Emma Petzet, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Kate Strong, Tarren Johnson, Dominic Santia

Voices: Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Cathal Sheerin, Kate Strong, Rita Kahn Chen, Rubina Schuth, Tarren Johnson, Susanne Kennedy, Ethan Braun, Dominic Santia, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Marie Schleef, Ruth Rosenfeld Sound design and montage: Richard Alexander

Soundtrack: Richard Alexander, Diamanda La Berge Dramm

Video design: Rodrik Biersteker, Markus Selg

Costume design: Andra Dumitrascu

Dramaturgy: Helena Eckert

Light design: Rainer

Sound Operator: Max Heesen
Video Operator: Stefan Korsinsky
Light Operator: Lea Schneidermann

Casper Artistic collaboration + Touring direction: Friederike Kötter

Stage assistant: Lili Süper

Artistic costume assistant: Anastasia Pilepchuk, Anna Jannicke

Direction intern: Tobias Klett Many thanks to Nick Drnaso, Rikke Villadsen and David OReilly for inspiration and quotes

Production: ULTRAWORLD PRODUCTIONS

Management and Distribution: Something Great

Artistic production management: Philip Decker

Technical production management: Sven Nichterlein

Stage construction: Stefan

Pilger International distribution: Rui Silveira - Something Great, 

Tour manager: Niki Fischer(Something Great)

Co-producers: Wiener Festwochen, Festival d'Automne à Paris & Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe, Festival d'Avignon, Holland Festival, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, National Theatre Drama / Prague Crossroads Festival, Romaeuropa Festival, Teatro Nacional de São João and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Support: Stichting Ammodo,German Federal Cultural Foundation,German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Special thanks: Goethe-Institut Taipei,German Institute Taipei

◎節目全長約100分鐘，無中場休息。

◎英文發音，中英文字幕。

◎遲到觀眾，須依工作人員引導等候入場。

◎建議12歲以上觀眾欣賞。

◎本演出含部分裸露、大量閃光，請留意並斟酌入場。