Dramaturge / Producer
An Atypical Brain Damage (2017)
Tianzhuo Chen
DIRECTOR Tianzhuo Chen
DRAMATURGY Petra Poelzl
CHOREOGRAPHY Tianzhuo Chen, Ylva Falk
TEXT Tianzhuo Chen, Beio
PERFORMANCE Beio, China Yu, Le Brothers (Le Ngoc Thanh und Le Duc Hai), Ylva Falk, Igor Dewe und Amelie Poulain (House of Drama)
MUSICIAN Igor Dewe
COMPOSITION Dis Fig
COSTUMES Asian Dope Boys
STAGE DESIGN Tianzhuo Chen
LIGHT Stephan Taul
SOUND Akihiko Tanida
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Petra Poelzl
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Christina Romirer, Diane Esnault, Stefan Simic
VENUES steirischer herbst (Dom im Berg), Spring Festival Utrecht (Stadsschouwburg), Kampnagel Hamburg (K6), Transform Festival Leeds (Canal Mills)
Chinese artist Tianzhuo Chen combines quotations from pop, folklore and commerce to create a global snapshot between kitsch and apocalypse. AN ATYPICAL BRAIN DAMAGE is a dark and, at the same time, upbeat pop opera in which instrumental live sounds mingle with pumping beats and big-city fashion arrogance meets the camouflage jackets of Chinese rice-growers. The material for this hybrid, ecstatic ghoulishness comes from global club culture and corporate identities, from folklore and social media, and, not least, from discourses on “the Asian” and “the European” in which the East dreams up a West and vice versa.