Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the national and international performing arts scene is taking a big hit.
Though no one is sure when this crisis will end, things will never be the same again for the performing arts scene.
The session will explore how theatre makers working internationally have found different ways and creative
methods in each country facing the pandemic, and how international collaboration in the performing arts scene
can move forward, using the crisis as a turning point.
Hee-Jin Lee is a creative producer and co-founder of Producer Group DOT, who has extensive experience working as a producer throughout Korea and internationally. In 2014, HeeJin co-founded Producer Group DOT with her colleagues to sought ways to remain independent and creative in an immense system that currently operates under a singular framework. She works with a diverse range of artists from diverse backgrounds in theatre, dance and interdisciplinary arts. She acts as a bridge between Korean artists and overseas artists and her works have been focused on international co-productions. She has produced Korea-India co-production Bahuchara Mata: Beyond Binary, Korea-Germany Co-production Walls-Iphigenia in Exile, Korea-Australia co-production Unknown Neighbors, Korea-UK co-production MIIN:미인 and etc. She is an executive member of Samil-ro Changgo Theater, a board member of Performing Arts Network Korea and China, and also a member of Asia Producers’ Platform. She curated programs of the guest of honor (Korea) for Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2018.
Pawit is CEO of art4d and president of International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC)--Thailand centre. Previously, he was director of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) when the number of visitors and diversity of programs reached record high notwithstanding the shortage of the city's support. Former artistic director of Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts and performing arts critic for The Nation newspaper, he's been involved in many intercultural projects between Thailand and Asian/European countries.
As the Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Riverbed Theatre Company, Craig has written and directed over fifty original image-based performances, including productions in Korea, France, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Canada, and the US. Craig is also a sculptor and installation artist whose work has been shown at the Asian Biennial, Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Kobe Biennale, and Taipei Biennale. Craig is a former Senior Fulbright Scholar, Mellon Foundation Fellow, and Humanities Unbounded Fellow He received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Grinnell College.
Jürgen Berger is a playwright and a critic. He is a jury member for the Mülheim Playwriting Prize, the Berlin Theatertreffen, and the Osnabrück Playwriting Prize. He was also a curator of the Ibero-American theater festival Adelante in Heidelberg. He teaches cultural journalism at the University of Mannheim and History of Theatre Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg.
Artistic director in TUIDA since 2001.
Artistic director of ASSITEJ winter festival since 2018.
Combining puppets, performances, and music, Yosup and the Performance Group TUIDA explore the boundaries between the world as objective reality and the world as feeling and emotion.
As a director, Yosup tempers this analytical vision with profound attachment to the people around him and to what it means to be human in our world today.