In Asia, we have attained a level of socio-economic growth and maturity where conditions are now ripe for a greater emphasis on culture and art.
The gestation of a critical mass of local artistic talent often requires authentic engagement across a broad demographic. The general public therefore has an important role in making culture and the arts come alive. Despite, performance and time-based events occurring sporadically in Asia, there is still a lack of substantial performance opportunities and its awareness in general public. There is a need to integrate performance art into the society and fabric more consistently. We believe performance art is not only for people who have art background. It is an art form for anyone such as office worker, construction worker, housewife, school children and elderlies. Though this event, we would like to create a deeper sharing experience in the society by breaking the existing limitations. We aim to gain wider recognition to art from general public.
Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinar y. Performance may be scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any type of venue or setting and for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work.
Active participation and interaction between audience and performers is a primary objective, and its purpose is to allow the general public to engage in, and be a part, of the Performance Art art space.
There are many differences in culture, race, religion, language and national priorities between countries in Asia. These differences often lead to difficulties in communication and trust, leading to conflict. Natural and human resources may be exploited with severe impact across borders. The burning of peat forests for palm oil production is an example of how a subset of individual interests compromises the greater good, where massive pollution from peat fires will cause health issues and acid rain for decades to come.
Within our project art space, we hope to present an alternative to the singular pursuit of individual benefit. We want to highlight how the surrender of individual identity can enhance cooperation and harmony, in much the same way that sustainable and responsible use of shared natural resources requires a de-emphasis of individual gain. In other words, the self should not precede collective harmony within and between different people.
It is a time for Asia to be together.
The purpose of the project is therefore to create a platform for local community engagement and development in the performing arts using Performance Art as a unifying artistic canvas across all countries in Asia. There are many good performance artists around Asia that are not known because in the major performance art event, only certain artists are repeatedly invited to participate. These artists might be an organizer of another performance art event or very known performance artists that has name to attract audiences and founding. We want to go back to the basic of the art where the event is an opportunity to express the message to the society. We believe the art is a collective energy of the community rather than a piece of art work produced by the individual. We want to build the collective community energy in each country and connect these creative motivation through Asian country to make one big community artistically energy in Asia.
We want to bring the Asian countries together by communicate each other among artists and community through performance art. We want to see no country gaps but to have the belonging to Asia rather than belonging to their own country. We want to find similarities among us instead of the differences and unite the Asia.
This performance art event series features international performance artists in a program presented exclusively outdoors, indoors and free of charge. It emphasizes a deframed and socially inclusive reality, in an intense, exciting and public event that goes beyond the mainstream.
In the each country’s frame, it visualizes the concept of contemporary art being deframed. It is here and now, it's ephemeral, it has attitude, it's fleeting, it's avant-garde. And it is free for public to observe the performance.
If one of the founding ideas of performance art event series is to present an independent event, innovative yet artist-centric and cutting-edge. It also proposes another way of how contemporary art is presented beyond and outside of the institutional frame. It is a showcase and a model of how the gap between art and life can be bridged in reality. Proposing a vision of cultural democracy.
It is also focusing on the importance of contemporary artists interaction, exchange and discussion. It accentuates an artist-centric approach in the spirit of earlier avant-gardes where with at its heart a non-hierarchic and non-formal attitude. It is coming out clean as a counter-current and alternative, ephemeral, human scale, un-hierarchical and profoundly non-commercial. It has nothing to sell, but can only give those who understands art a pure experience.
It replaces the institutional commercial reward system with its opposite. This is the reason of performance art event series, giving what is important to a world that sold out, its humanity and its values.
The gestation of a critical mass of local artistic talent often requires authentic engagement across a broad demographic. The general public therefore has an important role in making culture and the arts come alive. Despite, performance and time-based events occurring sporadically in Asia, there is still a lack of substantial performance opportunities and its awareness in general public. There is a need to integrate performance art into the society and fabric more consistently. We believe performance art is not only for people who have art background. It is an art form for anyone such as office worker, construction worker, housewife, school children and elderlies. Though this event, we would like to create a deeper sharing experience in the society by breaking the existing limitations. We aim to gain wider recognition to art from general public.
Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinar y. Performance may be scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any type of venue or setting and for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work.
Active participation and interaction between audience and performers is a primary objective, and its purpose is to allow the general public to engage in, and be a part, of the Performance Art art space.
There are many differences in culture, race, religion, language and national priorities between countries in Asia. These differences often lead to difficulties in communication and trust, leading to conflict. Natural and human resources may be exploited with severe impact across borders. The burning of peat forests for palm oil production is an example of how a subset of individual interests compromises the greater good, where massive pollution from peat fires will cause health issues and acid rain for decades to come.
Within our project art space, we hope to present an alternative to the singular pursuit of individual benefit. We want to highlight how the surrender of individual identity can enhance cooperation and harmony, in much the same way that sustainable and responsible use of shared natural resources requires a de-emphasis of individual gain. In other words, the self should not precede collective harmony within and between different people.
It is a time for Asia to be together.
The purpose of the project is therefore to create a platform for local community engagement and development in the performing arts using Performance Art as a unifying artistic canvas across all countries in Asia. There are many good performance artists around Asia that are not known because in the major performance art event, only certain artists are repeatedly invited to participate. These artists might be an organizer of another performance art event or very known performance artists that has name to attract audiences and founding. We want to go back to the basic of the art where the event is an opportunity to express the message to the society. We believe the art is a collective energy of the community rather than a piece of art work produced by the individual. We want to build the collective community energy in each country and connect these creative motivation through Asian country to make one big community artistically energy in Asia.
We want to bring the Asian countries together by communicate each other among artists and community through performance art. We want to see no country gaps but to have the belonging to Asia rather than belonging to their own country. We want to find similarities among us instead of the differences and unite the Asia.
This performance art event series features international performance artists in a program presented exclusively outdoors, indoors and free of charge. It emphasizes a deframed and socially inclusive reality, in an intense, exciting and public event that goes beyond the mainstream.
In the each country’s frame, it visualizes the concept of contemporary art being deframed. It is here and now, it's ephemeral, it has attitude, it's fleeting, it's avant-garde. And it is free for public to observe the performance.
If one of the founding ideas of performance art event series is to present an independent event, innovative yet artist-centric and cutting-edge. It also proposes another way of how contemporary art is presented beyond and outside of the institutional frame. It is a showcase and a model of how the gap between art and life can be bridged in reality. Proposing a vision of cultural democracy.
It is also focusing on the importance of contemporary artists interaction, exchange and discussion. It accentuates an artist-centric approach in the spirit of earlier avant-gardes where with at its heart a non-hierarchic and non-formal attitude. It is coming out clean as a counter-current and alternative, ephemeral, human scale, un-hierarchical and profoundly non-commercial. It has nothing to sell, but can only give those who understands art a pure experience.
It replaces the institutional commercial reward system with its opposite. This is the reason of performance art event series, giving what is important to a world that sold out, its humanity and its values.