Asiatopia: Performance Art Conference Southeast Asia

Selection Issues

• Regional Inheritances & the Historical Context
• Roundtable SEA Activist Performance & Performance Art
• Taboo, Censorship & Curating: Struggles over Historical Narratives in SEA
• Identities and Prejudices: Gender, Women, LGBT, Race, Queering Performance Art
• New Developments in Performance & Live Art: Socially Engaged Performance, Community Interventions, Ecology & Environmental-Based Performance

Oral History Project:

Story telling is an oldest form of recording history. The Oral History meetings take place throughout the conference in national languages, as determined by the participants. We are hoping that in these sessions the separate origins and development of performance art in Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam will be elucidated.

Performance workshops and laboratory:

• Boris Nieslony (GERMANY)
• Evamaria Schaller (AUSTRIA)
• Ivor Stodolsky & Marita Muukkonen (FINLAND) (Tentative)

Live actions:

Approximately 50 artists from SE Asia and Europe and America will perform their live actions throughout the 5 days of the conference.

Student Performances:

Thai art students and international students from Europe will join together to organize an open event on 19 August.

CO-ORGANIZED BY:

• ASIATOPIA INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART;
• BANGKOK ART & CULTURE CENTRE;
• FACULTY OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND PRINT MAKING, SILPAKORN UNIVERSITY

IN CO-OPERATION WITH:

• LIVE ART AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES (LAPS), THEATRE ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, HELSINKI, FINLAND;
• ARTISTS SERVICE ASSOCIATION (EUROPE), KOLN, GERMANY;
• SEA JUNCTION, BANGKOK

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