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For a summary of pertinent topics that were raised and discussed at ADN Conference 2019, please see the Centre 42 article Key Takeaways from ADN Conference 2019.
VIDEOS
This panel engages with how performing arts practitioners in Asia understand and approach the role of a dramaturg within a project, performance-oriented or otherwise. The panel examines how the dramaturg in Asia negotiates the very human process of creating art, including working with multiple collaborators, and dealing with tensions and conflicts. JANICE POON discusses the challenges of designing a dramaturgy course for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. MARK PRITCHARD shares his vision of ensuring that the stage serves underrepresented communities in Australia. GEE IMAAN SEMMALAR posits that one cannot discuss dramaturgy and the human condition without considering the Social, illustrating with his experiences on projects as a trans artist and activist.
00:02:05 JANICE POON00:31:42 MARK PRITCHARD01:04:55 GEE IMAAN SEMMALAR
This panel is moderated by ROBIN LOON.
JANET PILLAI's keynote presentation examines the notion of dramaturgy in Asia and its expanding role in context of the 21st century. It explores how the shaping a production or performance is not necessarily limited to writers and directors but may involve traditional and contemporary cultural leaders or mediators.
This session is chaired by LIM HOW NGEAN.
FELIPE CERVERA, KEN TAKIGUCHI and NESS ROQUE present their critical responses to JANET PILLAI's keynote presentation.
This session is moderated by LIM HOW NGEAN.
In his keynote presentation, TADASHI UCHINO explores the alternative form of ‘theatre as assembly’ in Japan, with specific reference to a small scale yet politically refreshing transnational performing arts festival called Theatre Commons, where workshops and lecture-demonstrations are the main features.
This session is chaired by CHARLENE RAJENDRAN.
This panel features arts practitioners who have honed their art-making practices alongside the development of technology. SU WENCHI shares her journey of exploring technology in her artistic practice, from her body of work, to her residency at CERN. JOMPET KUSWIDANATO showcases a video comprising snippets of his past works which integrated video, sound and performance, and illustrating his views on art, technology and humanity. MARTYN COUTTS presents a series of provocations which interrogated the relationships between theatre and technology, and between humanity and technology.
00:08:47 SU WENCHI00:35:15 JOMPET KUSWIDANATO01:01:16 MARTYN COUTTS01:27:11 Q&A
This session was moderated by MIGUEL ESCOBAR VARELA.
This panel focuses on the relationship between past, present and future in performance-making, critically engaging with what it means to take on the responsibility and burden of historical reflection in order to (re)imagine the future. Panelists also address questions about how the performance of history can interrogate the role of humans in the present, and advance a critical consciousness towards more inclusive and just futures. JO KUKATHAS presents her body of work, which includes a host of satirical characters which she had created and played over her career. LOO ZIHAN shares his guiding thesis for his work on history and archives: "How do we recalibrate our relationship to theatre beyond the Here, the Now, and the Event?" JEAN TAY discusses her plays which draw from personal histories, recorded history, and the history of forgotten figures, communities and locations.
00:05:07 JO KUKATHAS00:24:58 LOO ZHI HAN00:41:05 JEAN TAY00:59:25 Q&A
