eKomunidad Asia Performing Arts Festival

Bridging Artists, Audiences, and Performances in Asia

Streaming
November 5 – 20, 2021

There’s nothing to stop creation, even at the face of an ongoing global pandemic. The limitations set by the pandemic proved to go beyond as hurdles but as opportunities to generate new ways of co-creating, gathering, and exchanging together.

This 2021, The Japan Foundation, Manila together with Komunidad X launches eKomunidad Asia Performance Festival, a 3-year multi-platform performance initiative for development of new transfield co-creations, for online presentation of works from Asia, and for the continuing education of artists and audiences in Asia.

The hybrid festival of performance-makers will be hosted on the kXchange.org website that will run from November 5 to November 20, 2021. The website will feature an option to access the site in English and Japanese language.

The website will feature artists from all across Asia for each of the following programs

1. VIRTUAL PERFORMING ASIA – Virtual Performing Asia is a presentation platform showcasing 5 virtual or online iterations of select productions in Asia created during the time of pandemic. Performance-makers from the highlighted productions will be invited for both talkback and interview sessions. Featuring works from the following:

● PHILIPPINES present:
Teatro Guindegan’s “KUTAY: Intercultural Collaborative Theater in the New Normal”
Uleb Nieto and Layeta Bucoy’s Monovlog Series
Luis Francia’s Black Henry

● INDONESIA and INTERASIA present:
Teater Garasi’s “UrFear: Huhu and the Multitude of Peer Gynts” (featuring 5 of 11 video archives of the performance)

● TOKYO FESTIVAL FARM present:
フレフレ Ostrich!! Hayupang Die-Bow-Ken！
A cross-country collaboration produced by Tokyo Festival Farm
Directed by James Harvey Estrada, Aokid and Masashi Nukata

● BIPAM and IDRF present:
Deleted Scenes in SEA
A collaboration by Bangkok International Performing Arts Festival and Indonesian Dramatic Playreading Festival (IDRF).

● MALAYSIA present:
Kongsi KL’s Meat on Chopping Block bv Chang Yoong Chia and pause // play by Sena Tiga Lab: Unit B.

2. TRANSFIELD eCo-Creation Laboratory – Inter-field and inter-national platform for research, development and presentation of new works and collaborations responding to “climate and cultural crisis”, “mobility and gravity”, “social ecologies”. Collaborating artists/ collectives will present seed ideas on the first iteration this November 2021.

3. Artist Interview for kXchange.org Art Directory and Live Archives – The Artist Interview Series contributes to the growing archive of resources for contemporary performance made available on kXchange.org through its documentation of the practices and processes of 10 artists involved in the various programs of eKomunidad Asia Performance Festival.

4. Talk Exchanges: Panel Discussions – The Talk Exchanges: Panel Discussions program will tackle topics spanning across the following topics namely; the State of Contemporary Hybrid Performances, Performance Ecology and Climate Emergency, Beyond Covid Futures, and Performances as Resistance to Attacks on Democracy. With recordings and articles to be featured on the kXchange.org website and the eKomunidad Asia Publication. Available in both English and Japanese languages. Presenting topics on:

● Present-ations : On the Present and Future of Contemporary Hybrid Performances.
● Performance Ecology and the Climate Emergency
● Beyond Covid Futures
● On Attacks on Democracy: Performance and/as Resistance.

Schedule

DAY 1 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Philippine Focus

8PM (GMT +8)
LSU Teatro Guindegan’s “KUTAY: Intercultural Collaborative Theater in the New Normal”
Streaming on Komunidad X Facebook Page and kXchange.org Online Stage.

9:15PM (GMT +8)
Uleb Nieto and Layeta Bucoy’s MONOVLOG SERIES
Streaming on Komunidad X Facebook Page and kXchange.org Online Stage.