{"id":58593,"date":"2012-08-31T16:48:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T09:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bacc:8890\/events\/asiatopia-11-2009\/"},"modified":"2012-08-31T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T16:48:54","slug":"asiatopia-11-2009","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.bacc.or.th\/en\/events\/58593","title":{"rendered":"ASIATOPIA 11\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n\tThough performance practice has become a popular form among younger generation in Europe and America, and many countries in Asia with over 100 festival held world wide each year, but in Thailand government agencies and private funders focus their support in traditional art form, rather than contemporary practices. However, in order to keep the creative form going in the local art community most of the time the artists use their own money, or have to work with limited budget.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\t\t<span style=\"color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: DinDan_OT, Tahoma, Geneva, 'MS Sans Serif'; font-style: italic; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; \">In November 2008, nearly 100 world reknown artists from 32 countries took turn each weeks to celebrate 10thanniversary of ASIATOPIA international performance art festival, in Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre. Asiatopia performance art festival founded in Bangkok in 1998, by a Thai performance artist Chumpon Apisuk and his colleagues such as Vasan Sitthiket, Paisan Plienbangchang, Surapol Panyavachira, etc&hellip; Today the festival has become one of the most important performance platform in Asia, and in the international community of performance art.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\t\tSince the founding of Asiatopia a decade ago, many Thai performance artists actively engaged in the international performance art movement, and has been traveled world wide. Asiatopia, in turn has invited more than 300 international artists to perform for the Thai public audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tFor this 11th Asiatopia Festival, there will be 15 international artists from 8 countries including Thailand. They are from Germany, Austria, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, India and Burma.<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tMathias Jackisch from Dresden, with his recent sound work which has been perform in many countries in Europe. Eva Ursprung &amp; Doris Jauk-Hinz a dual women performers from Graz, Austria. Their works dealing with the idea of flag as physical and spiritual notion of identification. An international known Asian artist Melati Suryodarmo, from Solo.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tVarsha Nair a native of India, an active international performer a resident of Bangkok. Varsha Nair is a writer for Cntrl+P an online performance news-cast, and a member of the Womanifesto a women artists exchange program in Srisaket Province. This is her first time participating in Asiatopia.<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tYuenjie Maru one of the leading performance artist from Hong Kong. Kai Lam from Singapore, one of the leading performance artist in Asia. Kai is a leading member of the famous Singapore Artists Village. Jeremy Hiah who runs a nonprofit art gallery in Singapore &ldquo;Your Mother Gallery&rdquo;.<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tFrom Burma, Zoncy Phyu, a multi talented young artist of the avant-garde community in Yangon. From Thailand there are Chumpon Apisuk, Nopawan Sirivejkul, Padungsak Kotchasumrong, Vichukorn Tangpaiboon, Chakkrit Chimnok and Wanachat Likitmanont.<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tAsiatopia 11\/2009 will be held at Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre on 13-15 November 2009. The festival will tour to Chiangmai for 20-22 November at Tepsiri Studio, Soi Wat U-mong, Sutep Road.<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tFor more information contact &nbsp;081-499-3671 or chumpon@asiatopia.org.<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tProgram<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\t13 Nov 09<\/div>\n<div>\n\t18:00 Opening \/ Introduction to Asiatopia 2009 &amp; Artists welcome by Khun Chatvichai Prommathataveti, Acting Director of BACC<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\t19:00&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tMelati Suryodarno \/ Indonesia<\/div>\n<div>\n\tJon Vichukorn Tangpaiboo\/ Thailand<\/div>\n<div>\n\tNoppawan Sirivejkul \/ Thailand<\/div>\n<div>\n\tZoncy Phyu \/Thailand<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\t14 Nov 09<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n\t14:00 Durational work?<\/div>\n<div>\n\tArtists talk<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Maru Yuenjie \/ Varsha Nair<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\t18:00<\/div>\n<div>\n\tMathias Jackisch \/ Germany<\/div>\n<div>\n\tChakkrit Chimnok \/ Thailand<\/div>\n<div>\n\tAman Leung \/ Hong Kong<\/div>\n<div>\n\tVarsha Nair \/ India,Thailand<\/div>\n<div>\n\tJeremy Hiah \/ Singapore<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\t15 Nov 09<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n\t18:00&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\tMaru Yuenjie \/ Hong Kong<\/div>\n<div>\n\tPadungsak Kotchasumrong \/ Thailand Wannachat Likhimanond \/ Thailand<\/div>\n<div>\n\tEva Ursprung &amp; Doris<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>\/ Austria<\/div>\n<div>\n\tChumpon Apisuk Thailand<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though performance practice has become a popular form&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":57891,"template":"","archives":[],"locations":[112],"attendees":[],"sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-58593","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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