ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: ONG KENG SEN, THEATREWORKS AND
THE FLYING CIRCUS
PROJECT, SINGAPORE
Fully accredited by Sarah Lawrence College.
How can traditional performance strategies blend with cutting-edge
new media to create artistic forms reflecting today’s dynamic global
culture? Join The Kitchen and the Summer Institute’s first invited
international Artistic Director, Ong Keng Sen, for a multidisciplinary
program exploring the powerful relationships between ancient
technologies, dramaturgy and game. Fully accredited by Sarah
Lawrence College (3 credits),
this intensive three-week laboratory offers emerging artists
the unique opportunity to develop work integrating video, theatre,
performance, dance,
sound, and text. Through daily interaction with Ong Keng Sen
and a select group of professional artists from Asia and the
U.S., participants explore
ritualistic techniques drawn from ancient cultures within the
rich landscape of interactive systems, game design and rules
of play. Artist talks and
mentoring sessions with industry professionals enrich the curriculum.
The Institute also provides access to The Kitchen’s extraordinary
video archive of performance documentation, bringing to light
the important explorations that have made The Kitchen a center
of multimedia activity
for over 30 years.
The Kitchen’s 7th Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute is made possible
with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and with the generosity
of its founding sponsor, Elizabeth Kahn Ingleby. Additional support has been
provided by the Asian Cultural Council and the Sidney Kahn Family Foundation.
Special thanks to Technology Sponsor, TEKSERVE, and to Media Lab Sponsor, Parsons
School of Design, Graduate Department of Design and Technology.
  
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