PALA PROJECT (PERFORMANCE ART LABORATORY PROJECT)

Performance Art Laboratory Project (PALA Project) is an annual project, which is arranged to provide the kind of professional and creative research and development opportunities for International and Indonesian performance artists. PALA Project is creating a (flexible) blueprint for a laboratory model that seeks to develop, challenge and support hybrid performance practices by affording the participating artists a rare opportunity to explore ideas and understanding the influence of cultural diversities on practical issues in creating performance works.
The laboratory is provided to open boundaries of determination and definitions of performance art and performing arts, and to explore the practical exchanges by pursuing the intercultural understanding, philosophical perceptions, technical and methodical approaches.
PALA Project is open for visual arts, theatre, dance or music based international and Indonesian performance artists in any stage of their carrier.
PALA project is initiated by the Padepokan Lemah Putih Solo to promote a long-term cultural project. In its annual project, PALA Project is intended to collaborate with curator and art institution or group.
The PALA Project 2008 invites Boris Nieslony, founder from ASA European (Art Service Association) and E.P.I. Zentrum (European Performance Institute Cologne / Germany) as collaborated curator and as partner organizer.
PALA Project 2008 will focus on exchanges and dialogues between performance artist and performing artists. International performance artists and performing artists are invited to be in the project and actively contribute their idea, conceptual backgrounds, and practices. The project is open for progressive collaborations between artists, and new performance art works. At the end of the project, artists are expected to present their previous or new works at the “undisclosed territory #2” in Solo, Java, Indonesia.
Schedule: April 1st to 6th, 2008.
Place: Cilimas, Tejakula, Bali