This session will be the open round table where findings of three workshops with some practical
ideas and suggestions will be shared and participants will discuss how to reshape international
mobility at the post Covid-19 time and what the new roles and approaches of international networking
platforms will be for solidarity, cooperation and creative collaborations of international mobility in the future.
Vice President of ON-PAM – Open Network for Performing Arts Management. Established the Post Mainstream Performing Arts Festival (PPAF) in 2003 and introduced such groups as PME-ART, Forced Entertainment, Maison Dahl Bonnema and Hotel Modern to Japanese audience. In conjunction with TPAM, she held two IETM Asia Satellite Meetings (2008 and 2011) and Performing Arts Presenters’ Network Conference (2009) gathering Asian presenters. In 2012, she established a festival Sound Live Tokyo.
Naomi Velaphi is currently the Program Producer for APAM (Australia Performing Arts Market). She is an arts producer, curator and programmer interested in interdisciplinary arts practice with a commitment to working with diverse artists. She has held producing roles both independently and for a number of arts organisations including Arts Centre Melbourne, Arts House, Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Abbotsford Convent.
Sasapin Siriwanij is performer, director, and producer. She began acting in 2005 while studying at Chulalongkorn University, where she received her M.A and B.A in English Literature. She has been a core member of B-Floor Theatre since 2009, and co-founder of For What Theatre since 2015. Her latest work OH! ODE" (Oh! What Joy, What Goodness, What Beauty Calls For Ode No.7012) in 2017 won her Best Performance by a Female Artist by the Theater Critics Association Thailand (IATC 2017).
She was among the scholars of the Internationales Forum at the Theatertreffen, Berliner Festspiele 2017, and was a participant in the first-ever Curators' Academy by Theatreworks (Singapore).
Working in the performing arts field, Emilia Y. K. Lee is a chief manager of Performing Arts Planning Team of Korea Arts Management Service. Serving as the organizer of the 2 main performing arts platforms, Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) and Performing Arts Market in Seoul (PAMS), she especially is keen on how the platform makes the international mobility be active. In particular, facing Covid 19, she has explored the virtual space to make the international exchange works online.
Kyu has recently developed several research led practices focusing on “Art and the City”, “Diversity and Inclusion” and “Art and Technology”: <The Korea DMZ Lab> under the title of borders/boundaries in our contemporary society through the DMZ lenses,
He has been active for more than 20 years in the performing arts community as a cultural manager and international developer. Before working for CINARS, Mr. Doré was the Director of Art Circulation, a consortium of contemporary dance companies, the Financial Manager of the O Vertigo Company, the Director of the creation and production center, Caserne Letourneux TSF and a private consultant in cultural management and international development, which led him to work with The Quebec Arts and Letters Council. He has constantly undertook various missions abroad for companies in dance, theatre and music.
E-Jan Tan is a creative producer based in Malaysia. Co-Founder of Toccata Studio, a creative incubator in multidisciplinary creation, touring works internationally. She was regularly invited as speakers for cultural conferences, including France Ministry of Culture for cultural seminars in Paris-Nantes and IETM Satellite meeting in South Korea. E-Jan was awarded ISPA global fellowship twice, currently alumni of Arts Leadership Programme by Australia Council for the Arts and a member of Asian Producers’ Platform steering committee. She was CEO of INXO Arts and Culture Foundation in 2019-2020. E-Jan strongly believe the best way to see our future is to create it.
Marie Le Sourd is since 2012 the Secretary General of On the Move, the Cultural mobility information network active in Europe and worldwide. Prior to this position, Marie Le Sourd worked in Singapore for the Asia-Europe Foundation (Cultural Department) from 1999 till 2006 and directed the French Cultural Centre in Yogyakarta-Indonesia from 2006 till 2011.
Marie Le Sourd has over the years nurtured a knowledge pool on international cultural cooperation, funding schemes for the mobility of artists and cultural professionals, networks and web-resources. She is overall interested in the multiple impacts of mobility on artists and cultural professionals and evaluation process linked to these.
On the Move, the cultural mobility information network, signposts on a free, regular and updated manner funding opportunities for the mobility of artists and cultural professionals – all disciplines covered – in Europe and worldwide. Thanks to its members’ and partners’ expertise, On the Move also shares information on key challenges related to cultural mobility (eg. visas, social protection, taxation, environmental issues). Beyond this information channel, On the Move facilitates training, workshop and/or makes public presentations on cultural mobility issues and internationalisation of practices for the arts and cultural sector. (http://on-the-move.org)