CHUA CHIN CHIN

STOPOVER

Japan-Singapore Performance Art Meeting
18th & 19th May, 2005
Venue: Orita.Sinclair.Intl Front Room Gallery 12A,Pahang street, Singapore

Supported by: Japan Foundation , National Arts Council Singapore , BenQ and Orita.Sinclair.Intl FrontRoom Gallery

STOPOVER, Singapore’s First Performance Art Meeting of Japanese performance artists. On the 18th and 19th of May, we have invited emerging and established performance artists from Japan and Singapore to meet at Front Room Gallery to offer new performance works

Initiated and organized by performance artist Jason Lim, STOPOVER proposed to offer an international and professional showcase of performance art and time-based works that fall outside the traditional boundaries of established fine art and performing arts genres. STOPOVER is dedicated to represent a wide and comprehensive range of works, and is also committed to presenting both breadth and depth of performance art as a genre.

18th May 2005
6.30pm
Live presentation of art performances by
3 Japanese artists and
5 Singaporean artists
19th May 2005
6.30pm
Live presentation of art performances by
3 Japanese artists and
5 Singaporean artists


Participating artists
Japan
SEIJI SHIMODA
MAKOTO MARUYAMA
MIDORI KADOKURA
AZUSA OKUMURA
KAZUHIRO NISHIJIMA
REI SHIBATA
Singapore
JASON LIM
LEE WEN
KAI LAM
ZUL MAHMOD
RIZMAN PUTRA
CHUA CHIN CHIN
TODD TOK
NATASHA WEI
ANDREE WESCHLER
EFFENDY IBRAHIM


STOPOVER makes available a platform for the meeting of performance art practices by Japanese and Singaporean artists. This meeting seeks to achieve a positive reception and discourse in Singapore.

For the first time, 10 Japanese performance artists from NIPAF (Nippon International Performance Art Festival) will present their works in Singapore. Mr. Seiji Shimoda, Director of NIPAF, has recently organized the 12th Nippon International Performance Art Festival ( http://www.avis.ne.jp/~nipaf/ ), touring four major cities in Japan. He has created many performance art networks in Asia and initiated many performance art festival in Asia, example, PIPAF (Philippines International Performance Art Festival, JIPAF (Jakarta International Performance Art Festival) and TIPAF (Taiwan International Performance Festival) just to name a few.

From Singapore, we have invited 10 established and new faces to make live presentation in STOPOVER. I believe that an event like this will help to increase international cultural exchange and understanding, as well as being an accentuation of our artistic practice, research and development.

Jason LIM
Artist/organizer
STOPOVER
Japan-Singapore Performance Art Meeting