Asian Performing Arts Camp Final Presentation

Namyoung Kim – Seoul (Korea)

Namyoung (b. 1999) is an artist based in South Korea, primarily making performing arts with functional objects. She aims to become a body capable of both offense and defense simultaneously. Through the process of combining functional objects with her body, she creates movements. She does not perceive the audience as external third parties but actively involves them in the performance. Notable works include "Beside Me" and "Camouflage". Additionally, She is one of members of "Perbuhae", a self-sustaining educational performance collective.

Hon-Ting Michael Li – Hong Kong

Michael (b. 1994) is an independent producer, curator, and dramaturge based in Hong Kong. His research primarily focuses on exploring the relationality of the arts ecosystem and its artistic products. He actively engages with his immediate contexts and employs their producing and curatorial practices as a means of proactive and constructive response. In 2020, Li established Tin Project, an independent space dedicated to curating research and development platforms, facilitating independent residencies, and organizing non-production artistic events.

Lee Lim – Metro Manila (The Philippines)

Lee (b. 2000) is an emerging theatre and performance artist based in the Philippines. They studied in the University of the Philippines - Diliman under the BA Theatre Arts program, majoring in Performance. As a queer artist, they take interest in using acting, movement, dramaturgy, devising, performance phenomenology, and queer performance studies– to navigate the complexities of queer experiences. Their recent self-revelatory performance entitled "LINUS (they/them)" was a reclamation of their own queerness that was repressed in their upbringing.

Alissa Osada-Phornsiri – Tokyo (Japan)

Alissa (b. 1994) is an arts manager and producer based in Tokyo whose interests lie in exploring the coordination and management of interdisciplinary art projects centred on feminism, community, and care. An Asian-Australian child of Japanese and Thai immigrants trying to understand her role as an arts manager through exploring ways to create working environments in which peoples of all identities and backgrounds can express themselves fairly and freely. In 2023 she co-founded (O)Kamemochi, an intercultural and interdisciplinary arts collective.

Sakhi Upadhyaya – New Delhi (India)

Born in 1995, Arun is an applied theatre practitioner and theatre artist based in New Delhi, India. His work revolves around ideas of performance, research and playfulness, exploring how we can generate meaningful dialogues among people of all ages about identity and community, possibilities and limitations, and the collective future of humanity. His directing credits include Rihla (Sarang Festival), Bhagi Hui Ladkiyan (EQUAL Festival, META Selection and Special Jury Award), and Mahish (Ranga Shankara Festival). He has been teaching theatre in schools and NGOs for seven years, and is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University.

Kyoko Takenaka – Tokyo (Japan), Paris (France)

Producer, actor, theatre educator

Kyoko Takenaka moved to France in 2011 and became the first Japanese person to pass the acting section of the French National School of Drama; in 2016, she obtained the French National Actor’s Certificate. Based in Paris, she has appeared in various theater productions, mainly those of French national and public theaters. In 2017, she resumed her work in Japan. Alongside acting, she also holds lectures and workshops on harassment issues in French theater education and production. In 2021, she received France’s State Diploma in Theatre Teaching. She has performed in The Question of Faeries and Madame Butterfly (both written and directed by Satoko Ichihara) and Last Geisha (written and directed by Shogo Ota), among other works. She has been a producer at the art company Hydroblast since 2022. Takenaka takes a documentary approach to planning projects and creating works. Her favorite foods are wood ear mushrooms and pork. https://hydroblast.asia/

Kanoko Tamura – Tokyo (Japan)

Art Translator

Kanoko Tamura is the director of Art Translators Collective. She works in a range of fields, including Japanese and English interpretation and translation, as well as communication design. Exploring the possibilities of translation as a mediator between people, cultures, and languages, she facilitates creative approaches to dialogue that suit the needs of each space. As an adjunct instructor in the Global Art Practice department of the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts, she teaches English and communication to artists. She was also Director of Communication Design at the Sapporo International Art Festival 2020, where she mediated between the exhibition and the audience. She is a member of the non-profit organization Art Commons Tokyo. She has two turtles and three newts. Her favorite foods are soup and sweet corn. https://art-translators.com/