PSi #10 - Singapore 2004

PSi #10 SINGAPORE 2004

PSi PERFORMANCE STUDIES international

PSi is a professional association founded in 1997 to promote communication and exchange between scholars and practitioners working in the field of performance. The organisation has staged numerous international conference and festival gatherings that have moved between the discourse and practice of performance. PSi conferences have been held in the United States, Wales, and Germany. PSi #10 took place in Singapore in 2004.

DAY 0: MONDAY 14 JUNE 2004

Time	Place	Event
1700	The Substation, 45 Armenian Street	Pre Registration
1900	The Fat Frog Bar, The Substation	Informal Drinks

DAY 1: TUESDAY 15 JUNE 2004

Time	Event	Details
0900	Registration		Coffee & Tea
1000	Opening & Main Session 1
	Perform: State: Translate		Opening film excerpt by Ho Tzu Nyen, Visual Artist, Singapore Lee Weng Choy, The Substation, Singapore (moderator) Jennifer Lindsay, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Goenawan Mohamad, Writer, Indonesia
1200	Lunch
1215	Meeting of PSi Committee on Undergraduate Performance Studies		Chair: John Bell
1230	Book Launch		focas 5: Second Front – Interrogating Art, Religiosity and Violence
1300	Main Session 2
	States of Theory — G/lo/b/cal Densities?		Sanjay Krishnan, University of Pennsylvania (moderator) Jon McKenzie, Dartmouth College Trinh T. Minh-ha, University of California, Berkeley Yao Souchou, University of Sydney
1500	Tea Break
1515	Parallel Panel Session 1
	1.1 Subsequent Performances		Mika Eglinton University of Tokyo Constructing and Consuming Hamlet Huang Yin-Ying National Taiwan University The Writing Body: Reading Performance Works Based on Literature in Contemporary Taiwan. Clarissa Oon Writer, Singapore The Eunuch’s descendants Marianne König Setiadi Theatre Anthropologist, Switzerland/Indonesia “It needs all things to make a world”: An appreciation of Mbah Roedjito
	1.2 In Terra Gators: Looking at the Performance Grounds Walked (Crawled?) Upon		Sunetra Fernando University of Malaya Interrogating the Rhythm in Bronze Project Mohd Anis Md Nor University of Malaya When the Arts Interrogate State: The Story of Zapin Revival in Johor Rohaizad Suaidi Universiti Putra Malaysia Performance of Race: A State University Under Interrogation Susan Philip Australian National University/University of Malaya Hybridity as an Interrogation of Authoritative Discourse in Huzir Sulaiman’s Eight Plays. Charlene Rajendran (moderator) Nanyang Technological University
	1.3 States of Politics and Performance: Considering Theatre between Nation and Globality		Peter Eckersall University of Melbourne 21st century enjoyment plaza: theatre and Mori’s world Satoh Makoto Theatre artist, Japan Theatre and/as political work Edward Sheer University of New South Wales Karaoke Charisma: On Bad Actors and Other Political Performances. Tadashi Uchino University of Tokyo Globality's Children: Thinking through the “Children’s” Body as a Strategy of Flatness in Performance.
	1.4 Performing Gay Identities		Jonathan Bollen University of New England Intercorporeal Choreographies: Gay Performance Practices and the Interstices of Desire Ivy Chang National Chiao Tung University Queering Glocally: The Camp Aesthetics and Politics in Taiwan’s Queer Theatre Chia-Hsin Chou Trinity College, Dublin Queering Barthes Unbinding Sexuality: The Politics and Social Means of Mary Mullen Frederick Corey Arizona State University Chance in Our Lives Benny Lim The Fun Stage, Singapore Indifferent, or Strictly Oblivious?
	1.5 Pedagogy & Performance Studies		John Anderson Emerson College The Local Politics of Performance Studies at Emerson College: An Institutional Genealogy John Bell Emerson College Ubiquitous & Invisible: Performance Studies in Undergraduate Teaching. Charles Garoian Penn State University The Embodied Pedagogy of Performance Art Yvonne Gaudelius Penn State University The Embodied Pedagogy of Performance Art
	1.6 Asian Performance Aesthetics and Actions: Contemporary Interpretations		Paula Murray Cole, Ithaca College and East Coast Artists and Rachel Bowditch, East Coast Artists and New York University Lecture Demonstration of the Rasaboxes: Training the actor as athlete of the emotions Sangeeta Isvaran Dancer and Activist, India Rasa – a life-skill Him Sophy Composer, Cambodia Recognizing the problem of Sound in Traditional Cambodian Music. Martin Welton (moderator) Queen Mary, University of London
1745	Break			Film Screening NIGHT PASSAGE Directed and produced by: Trinh Minh-ha & Jean-Paul Bourdier
1800	Interest Groups		Interest Group Details
	IG1 - Documenting Performance		Facilitated by: Gay McAuley, University of Sydney
	IG2 - Motion Sickness Lab		Facilitated by: Tang Fu Kuen, Writer and dramaturg (Singapore)
	IG3 - Performance and the Age of Terrorism		Facilitated by: John Bell, Emerson College
	IG4 - Workshop on the Rasaboxes: Training the actor as athelete of the emotions		Facilitated by: Rachel Bowditch, New York University/East Coast Artists (US) Paula Murray Cole, Ithaca College / East Coast Artists (US)
	IG5 - Developing Women’s Performance Networks		Facilitated by: Audrey Wong and Magdalena Singapore
	IG6 - Festival Cultures		Facilitated by: Margaret Werry, University of Minnesota Venka Purushothaman, La Salle-SIA College of the Arts Low Kee Hong, TheatreWorks (Singapore)
	IG7 - Glocalizing Performance Research		Facilitated by: Jon McKenzie, Dartmouth College Heike Roms, University of Glamorgan C.J. Wee Wan-ling, Nanyang Technological University
1930	Conference Reception		Hosted by Singapore Management University Guest of Honour: Professor Roberto S Mariano, Dean, School of Economics and Social Sciences, Vice Provost, Research, Deputy Director, Wharton-SMU Research Center, Singapore Management University

DAY 2: WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE 2004

Time	Event	Details
0900	Registration		Coffee & Tea
1000	Main Session 3
	Perform: Practice: Tradition:		Kathy Rowland, Researcher & activist, Malaysia (moderator) Richard Gough, University of Wales Ong Keng Sen, TheatreWorks, Singapore Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, University of Malaya Jung-Soon Shim, Soongsil University
1100			Interest Groups	Public Programme
			See day 1 for details	Artists’ Panel on Butterflies by Golden Bough Theatre (Taiwan) Introduced and contextualized by Yu Shan-lu, supported by National Arts Council
1230	Lunch
1245	Meeting of PSi Artists Network Committee		Acting chair: Laurie Beth Clark
	PSi Graduate Students’ Committee		Acting chair: Paul Rae
1330	Parallel Panel Session 2
	2.1 Radical In-corporations and Visionary Crossbreeds		Meiling Cheng University of Southern California Homixenology on Trial: Performing Alien Molting in Contemporary China. Katherine Mezur University of California, Berkeley The Superflat Girls and Alien Incorporation: Japan's Cute/Pop Nation Modified for Creative Consumption. KK Seet National University of Singapore Mothers and Daughters: Abjection and the Monstrous-Feminine in Japan's Dark Water and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters Shannon Steen University of California, Berkeley Of Viruses and Virtue: Resisting the Asian Body as Transnational Vector of Contagion Trinh T Minh-ha : Discussant University of California, Berkeley Margaret Werry University of Minnesota Policy, Post-Ethnicity, and the Neo-Liberal Imagination: Alien Encounters in the South Pacific
	2.2 Breadcrumbs: Tracing The Way Home		Rachel Apelt Visual artist, Australia The Skins of Gilgamesh Michael Lee Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Misusing the House: Making a Home: Domestic Imaginations in Contemporary Singapore Arts Susie Lingham Writer & artist, Singapore Heterotropic hauntings Suzann Victor Visual artist, Australia/Singapore The image stammers
	2.3 Performance, Language and Translation 1 (Asia Research Institute panel)		Chua Soo Pong Chinese Opera Institute, Singapore Verbal and Non-verbal Languages in Contemporary Chinese Opera Performance in China and Singapore Pornrat Damrhung Thailand Translating Khon for the Public: Changing Language to Make Meaning in Thai Performance Culture Tan Sooi Beng Universiti Sains Malaysia Multilingualism and Humour: Comic Songs as Mediators of Pluralism in Malaysia Ward Keeler University of Texas Polyglossic Pleasures: Translation in Balinese and Javanese Performing Arts.
	2.4 Perspectives on Performance in the Global Marketplace		Chia-Che Hsieh Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh Resistance Or Surrender? The impact of performing arts festival provision on cultural identities of traditional Japanese and Chinese performing arts, and its relationship to western audience expectations: A case study of Asian productions at Edinburgh International Festival Shailaja J. Theatre artist, India Art of the voyeur and the vanishing Art: A study on Indian performing arts in global market Sheelah Grace Murthy & Anuj Vaidya Mrs Rao’s Growl, US The Role of Tourist as Seen in the Performance Piece: “The Techno Buddhist is a Tourist.” Tan Shzr Ee Ethnomusicologist, Singapore Culture vs Art; Performance vs Preservation: The role of cultural intermediaries in the case of ‘Enigma’ versus Taiwanese aboriginal singer ‘Difang’. Csaba Toth Carlow College, Pittsburgh Performing Global Japan: Gender, J-Pop, and Geographies Of Desire In Contemporary Tokyo
	2.5 Staging the Self, Staging the Other		Gunhild Borggreen University of Copenhagen Performing Nationhood: Mori Mariko and her Self-staging Projects Rune Gade University of Copenhagen The Social Body within the Individual Self: The work of Tanja Ostojic. Camilla Jalving University of Copenhagen Framing Performativity. Hanne-Louise Johannesen University of Copenhagen The Unbearable Lightness of Being Digital. Malene Vest Hansen University of Copenhagen Public Places – Private Spaces: Sophie Calle’s The Detachment
	2.6 Performing for the State: Censorship in Singapore & Malaysia		Rey Buono Sunway College, Malaysia Lucy Davis: discussant focas, Forum on Contemporary Art and Society Singapore Jo Kukathas Theatre artist, Malaysia Dana Lam Artist & civil society activist, Singapore Kathy Rowland Researcher & activist, Malaysia Alfian Sa’at Poet, playwright & writer, Singapore
1600	Break
1630	Parallel Panel Session 3
	3.1 Performance in Islamic Societies		Dalia Basiouny CUNY To Conceal & Reveal: Representations of Moslem Women on Stage William Beeman Brown University Gender, Sexuality and Performance in Islam John Bell Emerson College Islam and Object Performance Thomas King James Madison University Turkish and Ottoman Identity in Performance Rayelle Niemann Researcher & Multimedia Artist Moulids in Egypt: A Traditional Phenomenon of Ritual and Sociability.
	3.2 Self-Fashioned Identities		Joshua Dale Tokyo Liberal Arts University “Sex is worth dying for”: Annabel Chong, The Interrogation of Identity of Identity and the Ethics of Sacrifice Ho Tzu Nyen Visual artist, Singapore The Clothes Make the Man – The Story of Four Suits Rachel Joseph Stanford University Performing Infinity. Daphne Lei University of California, Irvine Asia Skin Deep: A Traditional Phenomenon of Ritual and Sociability
	3.3 Seduction, Affection, Subversion and Desire		Helena Grehan Murdoch University Seduction, Display and Power: ethics and representation in contemporary performance. Bojana Kunst University of Ljubljana Politics of Affection and Uneasiness Jung-Soon Shim Soongsil University Performing Emotion Interculturally: Korean Production of Hamlet Tina Takemoto California College of the Arts Sick, Exotic, and Outta Control: Ecstasies of Asian/American Performance.
	3.4 Transmissions & Spectacle		Catherine Diamond Soochow University Fa Ngoum’s Legacy: The Impact of State, Foreign Media, and Donor Organizations on Lao Performing Arts Ray Langenbach (moderator) Theorist & performance artist, Malaysia Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez University of the Philippines Power and Performativity: The Case of Tupada (Philippines). Ingrid Muan Reyum Arts Centre, Cambodia States of Panic: Procedures of the present in 1950s Cambodia. Takahashi Yuichiro Dokkyo University (Re)Invention of Japan through the Olympian Spectacle.
	3.5 Youth Theatre in Malaysia: (What) Does it Mean Anymore?		Fahmi Fadzil Akshen Theatre, Malaysia Tradition Carmen Nge Five Arts, Malaysia Empowerment Charlene Rajendran National Institute of Education Reflective/Reflexive/Practice Mark Teh Five Arts / Akshen Theatre, Malaysia Methodology and Pedagogy Sheelah Grace Murthy & Anuj Vaidya : discussants Mrs Rao’s Growl, US
	3.6 Performance, Language and Translation 2 (Asia Research Institute Panel)		Paul Dwyer: Discussant University of Sydney Jennifer Lindsay Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Performing Translation: Hardjo Susilo’s translation of Javanese wayang performance Goenawan Mohamad Artist, Indonesia Sri Mulat: Politics of Orality? Alfian Sa’at Poet, playwright & writer, Singapore Out of Sync: Bad Translation as Performance
	3.7 Performing Queer in Contemporary Thailand		Pawit Mahasarinand Chulalongkhorn University Performing Solo: The “Queer” Performance Artist Kuthilda Maneerat Chulalongkorn University Commodified Figure: “Queer” Body on Display at Calypso Cabaret (A Thai Female Impersonation Show for Tourists) Wankwan Polachan University of Bangkok “Queer” Presentation in Thai Comic Performance Wannasak Sirilar Theatre artist, Thailand
1900	END

DAY 3: THURSDAY 17 JUNE 2004

Time	Event	Details
1000	Parallel Panel Session 4
	4.1 Intercultural and Postcolonial Frameworks for Indonesian Performance		Michael Bodden University of Victoria “Fuedalism” and “Aufklarung” and the Faces of “tradition” in the Construction of Indonesia’s National Art Theatre John Emigh Brown University Years of Living Dangerously: Culture, Criticism and Killing in Bali from 1963 to 1966 Cobina Gillitt New York University Taman Ismail Marzuki’s Golden Years: Continuity, Innovation and Semangat Ke-Indonesiaan in Indonesia Theatre 1968- 1978 Evan Darwin Winet Macalester College “Rakyat” and “Ummat”: In search of the Islamic in Indonesian Theatre and Performance Theory Astri Wright University of Victoria Performing the Artist’s Performance: Astri responding to Arahmaiani
	4.2 Politicised Acts, Political Actions		Sruti Bala University of Mainz Performative aspects of nonviolent action Maaike Bleeker University of Amsterdam Let’s Fall in Love: Performing Political Marriage. Thomas Burvill Macquarie University Resistant Performance and (State) Performatives in The Time of the Tampa Antonio Prieto-Sta mbáugh El Colegio de Michoacán The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Mexican Performance Art Venka Purushothaman LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts Ordinary Acts: Line-dancing and Apathy in Everyday Life in Singapore
	4.3 Rethinking Ritual and Authenticity		Margaret Chan Singapore Management University Ritual is Theatre, Theatre Is Ritual: Chinese Theatre as Ritual of Transformation. Dorothy Chansky The College of William & Mary Staging the Passion: Reading Responses to Film and Theatre Versions of the “Greatest Story Ever Told.” Douglas Farrer National University of Singapore In the Shadows of Performance: Mysticism, Mystification and the Search for Authenticity Mundoli Narayanan Miyazaki International College The Over-ritualisation of Performance: Western Discourses on Indian Traditional Theatre. Sue-Han Ueng National Taipei University Performance Tactics in Taiwanese Folk Ritual Processions—Interplay with the State.
	4.4 Incorporations		Amanda Card University of Sydney Blame it on the Butoh David Cross Massey University Medical Rebirth in Singapore. Heike Gaessler Writer, Germany Contemporary Chinese Dance

DAY 0: MONDAY 14 JUNE 2004

Opening & Main Session 1

Clarissa Oon

“It needs all things to make a world”: An appreciation of Mbah Roedjito

Rohaizad Suaidi

Performance of Race: A State University Under Interrogation

Charlene Rajendran (moderator)

Edward Sheer

Intercorporeal Choreographies: Gay Performance Practices and the Interstices of Desire

Queering Glocally: The Camp Aesthetics and Politics in Taiwan’s Queer Theatre

Chance in Our Lives

The Embodied Pedagogy of Performance Art

The Embodied Pedagogy of Performance Art

Sangeeta Isvaran

Rasa – a life-skill

Him Sophy

Martin Welton (moderator)

NIGHT PASSAGE

Main Session 3

Policy, Post-Ethnicity, and the Neo-Liberal Imagination: Alien Encounters in the South Pacific

The Skins of Gilgamesh

Heterotropic hauntings

The image stammers

Verbal and Non-verbal Languages in Contemporary Chinese Opera Performance in China and Singapore

Translating Khon for the Public: Changing Language to Make Meaning in Thai Performance Culture

Art of the voyeur and the vanishing Art: A study on Indian performing arts in global market

Performing Global Japan: Gender, J-Pop, and Geographies Of Desire In Contemporary Tokyo

Performing Nationhood: Mori Mariko and her Self-staging Projects

To Conceal & Reveal: Representations of Moslem Women on Stage

Islam and Object Performance

Turkish and Ottoman Identity in Performance

“Sex is worth dying for”: Annabel Chong, The Interrogation of Identity of Identity and the Ethics of Sacrifice

The Clothes Make the Man – The Story of Four Suits

Daphne Lei

Asia Skin Deep: A Traditional Phenomenon of Ritual and Sociability

Politics of Affection and Uneasiness

Catherine Diamond

Fa Ngoum’s Legacy: The Impact of State, Foreign Media, and Donor Organizations on Lao Performing Arts

Ingrid Muan

Tradition

Empowerment

Methodology and Pedagogy

Performing Translation: Hardjo Susilo’s translation of Javanese wayang performance

Sri Mulat: Politics of Orality?

Alfian Sa’at

Out of Sync: Bad Translation as Performance

Pawit Mahasarinand

“Queer” Presentation in Thai Comic Performance

Wannasak Sirilar

Parallel Panel Session 4

“Fuedalism” and “Aufklarung” and the Faces of “tradition” in the Construction of Indonesia’s National Art Theatre

Years of Living Dangerously: Culture, Criticism and Killing in Bali from 1963 to 1966

Taman Ismail Marzuki’s Golden Years: Continuity, Innovation and Semangat Ke-Indonesiaan in Indonesia Theatre 1968- 1978

“Rakyat” and “Ummat”: In search of the Islamic in Indonesian Theatre and Performance Theory

Performative aspects of nonviolent action

Resistant Performance and (State) Performatives in The Time of the Tampa

The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Mexican Performance Art

Ordinary Acts: Line-dancing and Apathy in Everyday Life in Singapore

In the Shadows of Performance: Mysticism, Mystification and the Search for Authenticity

Blame it on the Butoh

Contemporary Chinese Dance