Two travelers—one from Denmark, the other from Keelung, Taiwan—meet after faring light years in the void of space and time, and traverse through the memories of their childhood, moments that they don't want to let go, yet will soon dissolve into the deep sea of oblivion.

After its premiere at the 2018 Taipei Arts Festival, Chronicle of Light Year: Taipei-Copenhagen has garnered further international acclaim at festivals in Austria and Denmark. A collaboration between visual poet CHOU Tung-yen and his Very Theatre, and The Culture Yard in Elsinore, Denmark, this piece features hologram technology used in The 4D Box at Elsinore in a fusion of theater, imagery, dance and technology.




It melts the virtual and the real, and constructs another reality.－Ruth Schnell, Media Artist & Head of Digital Arts Department, University of Applied Arts Vienna

CHOU Tung-yen, Director and Concept 

CHOU Tung-yen holds a MA in Scenography with distinction from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and a BFA in Theatre Directing from Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). He is the founder and director of Very Theatre and Very Mainstream Studio. Centering around the theatre and moving image, he makes interdisciplinary works of performance, installation and documentary.

The latest international co-production with The Culture Yard in Denmark, Chronicle of Lightyear:Taipei-Copenhagen premiered in Taipei Arts Festival and invited to perform in Ars Electronica Festival, Linz in 2018.

Two of the new international production Virtual Intimacy and Facing Cities will be world premiered in Asia TOPA(Australia) & Noorderzon Festival (The Netherlands) in 2020.

Mikael Fock, Artistic Director 

Fock is the CEO and artistic director of The Culture Yard in Elsinore, Danmark, and is the founder of the interactive multimedia company Vision 4. Trained in both film and theatre, he is an expert in realizing his creative ideas in fusing film, new media and performing arts in large-scale productions spanning multiple media genres.

WEI Chun-chan, Performer 

WEI holds a master's degree in theatre arts from TNUA, and is active in playwrighting, acting and directing as the artistic director of the One Player Short Ensemble. Recent credits include The Angry Oyster, LAB no.3—The creature of no name, The Little Child for One Player Short, Tainaner Ensemble’s production of Bent, and Der Schoenste Moment for The Puppet & Its Double Theater.

Kasper Daugård Poulsen, Performer 

Poulsen is a dancer, performer and choreographer. He studied dance at the Amsterdam School of the Arts and founded his own company, Club Fisk, in 2003. He works in a wide variety of formats and genres, and is currently a member of Aarhus Arts Council, a multidisciplinary council consisting of writers, composers, visual and performing artists.


 

Very Theatre 

Founded by theatre and media artist CHOU Tung-yen and funded through the resources of its partner company Very Mainstream Studio, Very Theatre is a multi-artform organization, creating performance, video art, and exhibition. Very Theatre takes new media as core and focuses on creating interdisciplinary works with a strong emphasis on narrative and text which strive to envision new ways of seeing and experiencing performance. They have won multiple awards, and have performed in China, France, Korea, Denmark, Spain, Germany and throughout Taiwan.

Production / The Culture Yard (Denmark), Taipei Performing Arts Center (Taiwan)

Performance / Very Theatre

Director / CHOU Tung-yen

Artistic Director / Mikael Fock

Artistic Consultant / LIN Ching-ju

Text Consultant / HUNG Jui-wei

Text / WEI Chun-chan, Kasper Daugård Poulsen, ZHAN Jie, CHOU Tung-yen

Performers / WEI Chun-chan, Kasper Daugård Poulsen

4D Box and 3D Hologram Development / The Culture Yard, Mikael Fock

Visual Artist & Programmer / Carl Emil Carlsen

Multi-Media Design / SUN Yu-ning, HUANG Wei-hsuan, LIOU Jie, LI Yi-ching, LEE Kuo-han, Sylvia HSU

Lighting Designer / CHUANG Chih-heng

Composer / LU Lu-ming

Sound Designer / LU Hyphen