PAPA E-News Call for Information

[Tomcsanzi Ysofia]

PAPA E-News Call for Information

Dear Friends,

NIPAF (Nippon International Performance Art Festival) set up PAPA
(Platform Asian Performance Art) in the end of 1999.

Because we know now in some Asian countries, Performance art is becoming

new art medium and also some performance art festivals have started
already
in this area. It is very good and very interesting story.

It is so different economical and political condition we have in Asia.
The
freedom of expression is so limited in some countries, but we already
know
some artists doing in such condition there. Even rich country like
Japan,
performance artists is always outsider, but still some young artists
will
join us. Maybe the meaning of art for us is a little different than
others.
But we learn a lot through this art medium and meeting and knowing other

artists in the world. Then we realized we should make good networking
between the artists in order to have good our own developing.

As PAPA, we had published " Asian Performance Artists" in 2000,
introducing
44 artists, each one page, from 11 Asian countries. Now we are working
to
publish volume 2 of it. Even we have financial difficulties as usual.

Now we want to start "PAPA E-News" in e-mailing style. It is monthly
(maybe) news about Asian performance art. Now we already receive same
kind
of news via e-mail from NY, Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. "Going On"
and
also from perfonews "PERFONEWS". They are worldwide news about
performance art and other art.

But we "PAPA E-News" is focusing Asian artist's performance art and also

performance art event in Asia. It's mean if you are Asian, you can post
your event's information us, even in out of Asia, and if you are not
Asian
but if you have plan to have performance in Asian country, you can also
post us.

1) Performance Art Event in whole Asia, by Asian artists and also
non-Asian  artists.
2) Performance Art Event in the world, by Asian artists.
Please send the English written information to E-mail:
nipaf at avis.ne.jp

Please send the information of your performance art event, even small
event, even workshop or video showing, any kind of event if it related
performance art, not theater or dance performing, as following format.

PAPA E-News
TITLE OF THE EVENT;
DATE AND PLACE;
LIST OF ARTISTS or CONTENTS;
COMMENT etc;
CONTACT;

So anyway let's start this new project "PAPA E-News"

NIPAF/PAPA-Japan; Seiji Shimoda
Seiji Shimoda/Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF),
Platform of Asian Performance Art (PAPA); 2-8-15, Nakagosyo, Nagano,
Nagano, 380-0935, JAPAN Tel & Fax +81-26-224-0748

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