Shifting Dialogues : Asian Performance and Fine Arts, Asian Art and Performance Consortium (AAPC)

The Consortium will focus on the philosophical, and socio-cultural aspects of Asian visual art, theatre, dance and performance research in Finland, and the pedagogical transmission of these closely linked research fields. Attention will be directed toward the inter-relationships of practices in the performing arts: Kirkkopelto, Thuring, Tångeberg-Grischin, Bredenberg with parallel notions of the body/mind in the visual arts, for example, in temple sculpture iconography (Miettinen), Socialist Realist and nationalist aesthetics (Langenbach, Kuzay), environmental art (Kato), and the micro-spaces of political activism and daily life under extreme oppression (Koh).