PAMS SalonⅣArt/art activism

A Salon, co-organized by PAMS, international cooperation organizations, and experts!

Date

Oct.9th(Wed) 10:00 ~ 11:30

Venue

IEUM Center IEUM Art Hall(5F)

Co-organised

Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange(KOFICE)

Co-producer

Joo-young Koh

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Art activism is the most proactive and direct mode by which the arts bind with the societies we live in. This session looks at practical cases ongoing in Southeast Asia and Korea to appreciate the current issues of contemporary Asian society and explore the roles of the arts and possibilities for solidar.

Co-organised Organization

Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange(KOFICE)

KOFICE (Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange) encourages various cultural exchange beyond borders under the vision of “A network hub connecting Korea and the world through culture”.

Moderator&Speakers

Moderator Joo-young Koh Independent Producer

Joo-young Koh has worked at several performing arts festival secretariats, a feminist cultural art group, and an art support organization. She currently works mainly to produce site-specific and multi-disciplinary works, and one of the programmer of Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (TPAM, 2016~).She wants to be between theater, arts and beyond.

SpeakerJune Tan Producer, Five Arts Center

June Tan is a biologist from Imperial College London and a member of the performing arts collective Five Arts Centre. Her producing focus builds from a parallel experience in the corporate sector and her entry into stage management since 1997. June is interested in facilitating space for difference, for discussion, and models for art making. She is currently one of the programmer of Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama(TPAM), and Bangkok Performing Arts Meeting(BIPAM).

SpeakerAlison Segarra Co-founder and a member, Sipat Lawin Collective

Alison Segarra is a freelance artist-manager. She’s also co-founder and core member of Sipat Lawin Inc. The collective developed contemporary performance community experiences shared among artists and audiences creating new forms of inter-action, social engagements, and different modes of production.

SpeakerTanwarin SUKKHAPISITFILM MAKER, A member parliament

Tanwarin Sukkhapisit is the director of the INSECTS IN THE BACKYARD (2010), IT GETS BETTER (2012), and A GAS STATION (2016), which was premiered in Busan and was nominated for 5 Thai National Film Awards, winning the Screenplay prize. Tanwarin was selected as the president of the Thai Film Directors Association in 2012-2014, and was elected to be the first trans-gender Member of Parliament of Thailand in 2019.

Panel Eun-seon Park Director, Listen to the city

Eun-seon Park started the art-design-urbanism collective Listen to the City in 2009 as its director. The main focus of the group is on how art and creativity can serve not as tools for producing more commodities but as means to return the ownership of public goods to the public. The collective sees public space—urban facilities, the mountains, air, and sky—as something everyone should have access to.

Panel Eun-young Kwon(Sin Jae)Theater maker

Eun-young Kwon produces and stages plays in collaboration with wrongfully terminated workers, displaced tenants, people with disabilities, and bereaved families of the Sewol victims. Kwon mostly works with people who have things to say and voiced to be heard. She has also founded the “0set Project” in 2017 and runs the project-format team.