Season Program: Asia Culture Center Theater Download PDF
Season Program: Asia Culture Center Theater
  • 2015 - 2016

The 2015-2016 season program of the Art Theater consists of two main axes: “Asia Window” and “Our Master”, will be conducted over a period of 8 months.

Asia Window

Five curators from five different Asian countries will exchange their viewpoints on Asia’s now. Through multi-layered platforms that include performance, exhibition, symposium, and publication, they will propose issues that they consider to be the most vibrant ones in today’s Asian arts as well as the means to deal with them.

The process of weaving different ideas into a comprehensive dialogue in one space will create a map of contemporary issues. This will be a collective effort to devise new Asian ways to write Asian histories. Through acts of mutual looking. Asian voices will be active subjects of history-writing, rather than being subject to outside perspectives.

Works

  • Helly Minarti: Gaze. Project. Myth
  • YOU MI: Transgression and Syncretism
  • Tarek Abou El Fetouh: The Time is Out of Joint
  • Raya Martin: UNdocumenta
  • Jang Young-gyu: Vanishing Voices

Our Masters

Our Masters present artists who, in our opinion, changed the theater and dance scene drastically and influenced in the history of the performing arts in the last decades. ACC Theater invites a curator who has made far-reaching contributions to the internationalization of the twentieth and twenty-first century to program Our Master. She has been a faithful advocate of the visions beyond aesthetic norms and beyond the European hegemony in the arts. As a first set of hopefully many to follow, Frie Leysen will present some of her own masters and during the season, a subjective view on the recent history of the performing arts.

Works

  • Philip Glass/Robert Wilson: Einstein on the Beach, An Opera in Four Acts
  • Tim Etchells: Neon, Empty Stage, The Last Adventures, Dirty Work
  • Christoph Marthaler: Tessa Blomstedt gibt nicht auf
  • Hijikata Tatsumi: Hijikata Tatsumi - Japanese Revolution of a Body
  • William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance, II Ritorno d’Ulisse (The Return of Ulysses)