Description: "Jejak-旅 Tabi Exchange: Wandering Asian DONE/COMPLETED/READY FOR UPLOAD Contemporary Performance" proposes the need to map, network and understand the dynamic of international presentation of the work by contemporary artists from or in Asia.
“Jejak-旅 Tabi Exchange: Wandering Asian DONE/COMPLETED/READY FOR UPLOAD Contemporary Performance” proposes the need to map, network and understand the dynamic of international presentation of the work by contemporary artists from or in Asia.It is meant to be an intimate platform for contemporary performing artists in Asia to share, exchange and explore critical ideas and practices in the framework of connecting two particular cities/contexts through a set of critical questions.
This exchange platform is also an effort to distribute contemporary performance knowledge and know-how within and across various modest-sized Asian cities. We aim to start building various performance stories, records and eventually historiographies of Asian contexts, identifying the interlinking as much as the disconnections of such nodes. The project was borne out of our urgent observations and responses to the current developments of contemporary performance in the Asian region.
The platform was founded by three curators/producers Akane Nakamura (Tokyo), Helly Minarti (Jakarta/Yogyakarta) and How Ngean Lim (Kuala Lumpur/Ballarat, Australia), with How Ngean resigned after completing the first edition in 2018. In 2020, Masashi Nomura (Nagano) joined the curatorial team, bringing Naha connection onto the table, the city he lived in for years until recently. For every chapter/city, we collaborate with certain organizations/collectives based in respected cities in curating the program.