Bard The Beholder x Popcorn
Performance
Artists’ bio:
Bard The Beholder is Taipei’s masked extraterrestrial drag creature who conjures worlds within words. Using eco-conscious costuming, interactive live performance, game design, and related practices, Bard engages themes of migration, history, and horror to explore their lived experience as a queer person.
Bard The Beholder是台北的蒙面外星變裝生物，致力於在文字之中幻化、建構出嶄新的世界。透過具備環保意識的服裝設計、互動式現場表演、遊戲設計及相關實踐，Bard 涉足移居、歷史與恐怖（horror）等主題，藉此探索自身作為酷兒（queer）的生命經驗。
Popcorn (Nick van Halderen) is a Taipei-based drag performer who hails from Aotearoa (New Zealand). Exploring abstraction, transhumanism, and horror, Popcorn entertains, confuses, and provokes audiences, pushing boundaries to create space for experimental behaviour and self-discovery.
Popcorn（Nick van Halderen）是一位現居台北、來自奧特亞羅瓦（Aotearoa，紐西蘭）的變裝表演者。透過對抽象、超人類主義（transhumanism）與恐怖（horror）等主題的探索，Popcorn 在娛樂大眾的同時，也帶來困惑與挑釁，藉由打破既定邊界，為實驗性行為與自我探索開闢出嶄新的空間。
Performance description:
In this performance, Bard The Beholder and Popcorn offer compassion to the transcendental figure of Guanyin. Through collective wishes, ritual, and prayer, these two gender-fluid servants of Guanyin invite guests to gather in good faith, extending care among themselves, toward Guanyin, and out beyond the stratosphere.
在這場表演中，Bard The Beholder 與 Popcorn 將向具有超然意象的觀音菩薩獻上慈悲。透過集體許願、儀式與祈禱，這兩位觀音身邊的「流體性別」（gender-fluid）侍者，邀請觀眾帶著善意與正念齊聚一堂，將關懷相互傳遞——從彼此之間、向內延伸至觀音，並向外擴散、穿透平流層（stratosphere）直到無垠的遠方。