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再拒劇團全名「再一次拒絕長大劇團」,2002年由跨域 台灣劇場工作者成立,以劇場、音樂演出、展覽、獨立劇展策畫等各種創作型態推出製作。演出以環境劇場、音樂劇場與詩劇為大宗, 亦常見重複、非敘事、意像拼貼與疏離手 法的運用,及結合物件、聲音藝術及多媒體藝術之創作; 多 部邊緣議題演出, 轉化並置換大眾文化及符碼,以多元的 藝術公共意識,探索全球化影響下階級處境、性別、身份 認同與生存意識,並曾於台北、花蓮、高雄、台南、東京、澳門、英國卡爾地夫……等多個城市演出。
在印度與中國神話中,皆有關於「童神」的記述,台灣尚存 的重要民間信仰神「哪吒」,更以破壞殺戮、剔骨割肉的自 伐與弒父故事為所著稱。「再一次拒絕長大」意味著在幕 啟幕落、場燈明滅之間,劇場做為一種即生即死的藝術一 如「忿怒哪吒」現真實身,藝術體驗合該摧毀感官固定的接收模式,而劇場表現的原點, 亦不啻為永恆年輕的童子, 在死亡與重生的意念中輪轉。
再拒劇團近年的作品，聚焦於劇場中空間、聲音與物件結合的各種表現可能及媒介。兩年一次的環境劇場劇展《公寓聯展》，將亞洲高度資本化下狹小的公寓空間做為排練和演出場域，改變既定的觀演關係及藝術經驗。《黑暗 潮》及《諸神黃昏》則為集體創作之音樂劇場，以動作的執行作為表演，聲音、物件成為演出的本體。2012年《接下來，是一些些消亡》則承接並延伸「微型劇場」概念，在台北、澳門及英國卡爾地夫舉辦的劇場設計展等另類空間，演出「無演員」的多媒體藝術劇展。同年，以台灣、中國青年勞動處境為本的《美國夢工廠》，參與東京藝術節 (F/T) 的「新銳公募」，透過10段互文交織的集合夢境 (collective dreams)，探索劇場藝術如何在大眾文化、資本主義文化均質化力量及後現代美學去政治的張力之中，逃離失語的狀態。
Against-Again Troupe was founded in 2002 in Taiwan by a group of theatre practitioners coming from diverse artistic backgrounds. Our productions range from theatre, musical performances, to exhibitions and small-scale performance festivals. Major works lie in the field of site-specific theatre, music theatre and performance poetry, implementing objects, sound, and multimedia to create performance pieces infused with collage, repetition, alienation, and non-narrative text. A large portion of our work is socially conscious and issue-related. Through art we attempt to examine the human condition in our age of globalization, in regards to class, gender, identity and survival.
The literal translation of AAT’s mandarin name – zai yi tsi ju jue zhang da – is “to refuse, once again, to grow up." The archetype of the child-god is found in many Asian mythologies from China to India. In Taiwanese folk religion, Nezha is the child-trickster, embodying destruction and noted for his stories of violence and patricide. We believe that the ephemeral act of theatre is akin to the anger of Nezha, inclined to disrupt our habits of sensory perception, and to be the eternal child, forever walking between the lines of death and rebirth.
The recent works of AAT are focused on experimentation with space, objects and sound. Our biennial Apartment Showcase transforms the compact living quarters of urban capitalist Asia into a space for site-specific theatre and a playground for experimenting with performer/spectator relations. Kuroshioand Götterdämmerung are collaborative works of music theatre, redefining the execution of actions as performance and channeling the performative qualities of sound, objects and music. All that’s left to happen is some deaths (my own included), created in 2012, is a performance without actors, as well as a series of ventures into the concept of micro-theatre, constantly reinventing itself as it travels through alternative venues from Taipei, Hualian, Gaoxiong, Tainan to Macau and to the World Stage Design festival in Cardiff. The same year, American Dream Factory, was performed at Festival Tokyo (F/T). Through ten scenes of interwoven dreams, this show explores global capitalism as collective mythology, and how theatre art can find new forms of resistance and communication within a world of popular culture, institutions and post modernity.
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