Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance (ADAM)
December 8–19, 2021
Throughout 2021, Taipei Performing Arts Center has presented ADAM in online and on-site settings to continuously facilitate international exchanges between artists and investigate the current and future of the art ecosystem under the pandemic.
Curated by choreographer Angela Goh (Australia), the last assembly of this year Time Dresses up as a Ghost and Arrives to the Party Dripping invites artists Jassem Hindi (France & Palestine/Porsgrunn, Norway), Su Yu-Hsin (Taiwan/Berlin), Brian Fuata (Samoa & Australia), Verity Mackey (Australia)and River Lin (Taiwan/France) to share their ongoing actions and thoughts about the mysterious “time” and “times” through screening, performance lectures, conversations and a dress up party. By bringing these artists and their practices into proximity, webby relations between slime, water, ghosts, dress ups, transformation and time, come into view. Affinities reveal that we are not alone.
Parallelly, the research project Rehearsing (for) the Future initiated at the beginning of this year by Taipei Performing Arts Center will present a series of concept sharings by artists including Harrison Hall (Australia) & Sam Mcgilp (Australia) & NAXS Corp. (Yi Kuo and Feng Han-Yu) (Taiwan), TAKUMICHAN (Japan), Musquiqui Chihying (Taiwan/Germany) & Elom 20ce (Togolese Republic) & Gregor Kasper (Germany), Mohamad Shaifulbahri (Singapore) & Nazry Bahrawi (Singapore/Seattle) & Fasyali Fadzly (Malaysia) & Amin Farid (Singapore) & Biung Ismahasan (Taiwan). Through their sharings, these projects deliver the post-pandemic ideas of knowledge production and image ways of making performances responding to critical burning issues of our times.
It is the best and the worst of times. Let’s meet (again) to reset bones, minds, configurations and methods, together reconciling and the (re-)new normal and route.
Taipei Performing Arts Center, running Taipei Arts Festival, Taipei Fringe Festival, Taipei Children’s Arts Festival, Camping Asia, and ADAM, is a new performing arts complex scheduled to open in July 2022. ADAM (Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance) is an interdisciplinary initiative designed for contemporary artists from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond to exchange, research and collaborate.
Contact us at adam [at] tpac-taipei.org.
