Asian Performing Artists Lab (APAL)
Asian Performing Artists Lab (APAL) is an independent platform organized by asian artists for asian artists. It offers Germany-based performing artists with asian backgrounds the opportunity for creative exchange, experimentation and collaboration. APAL operates in 2 directions which work in tandem: the artistic and the social.
APAL presents works-in-progress by performing artists with Asian background, created during APAL@AmnAsia, a residency program. An artist talk takes place at the end of every presentation.
The 6-day intensive residency offers the artists the opportunity to work in an environment surrounded by other performing artists with Asian background and where they can share experiences, resources and knowledge with each other. It is also a space where they can support, as well as stimulate each other’s artistic processes and works.
At APAL@AmnAsia performance-making is not only about how we make works, but also about how we co-exist and thrive together. It is explicitly not production-oriented, but focuses on artistic processes and experimentations with ideas, approaches, ways of working, or whatever challenges or fascinates the artists. They have the autonomy to work with themes that concern them, as well as determine their own aesthetics and voices in their works. AmnAsia is therefore an attempt to resist the erasure that Asian artists face in a predominantly white society.
APAL@AMNASIA (7TH EDITION) - October 10 - 11, 2023, Berliner Ringtheater
APAL@AMNASIA (6TH EDITION) - May 9 - 10, 2023, Berliner Ringtheater
APAL@AMNASIA (5TH EDITION) - October 3, 2022, Berliner Ringtheater
APAL@AMNASIA (4TH EDITION) - April 28, 2022, Berliner Ringtheater
Organisation & co-curation: Ming Poon
Accessibility & co-curation: Frederika Tsai
Coordination: Lee Mun Wai
Communication: Jingyun Li
Dramaturgical support: Dandan Liu
Artist talk moderation: Tessa Hart (AfroPolitan Berlin) + Lizza May David (korientation)
Workshop facilitator: Promona Sengupta
Production management: MIFRUSH Production (Micaela Trigo and Urszula Heuwinkel)
Graphic design: Hùng Kiều
Video design: Celia Staffa
Photo documentation: Olivia Kwok
Video documentation: Isabelle Schmitz and Baskoro A.Widyono
Technical support: Haesoo Jung, N.N
Jury: Harshini J. Karunaratne, Frederika Tsai, Ming Poon
Asian Performing Artists Lab (6th and 7th Edition) funded by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
Asian Performing Artists Lab (4th and 5th Edition) funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.
