FESTIVAL/TOKYO
Performing Arts Festival launching from Tokyo
F/T11 is providing a platform for criticism in Asia through inviting a group of 10 leading critics and journalists from across the continent to come and directly experience the Festival. This will establish a new environment for dialogue and exchange, looking at contemporary theatre from the vantage point of Tokyo, spreading that thinking out via multiple languages and cultures.
Profile
Ryota Fukushima Japan
Born in 1981. Literary critic and scholar of Chinese literature. Currently teaches at Kyoto University and researches contemporary consumerist culture, and its expansion into East Asia. He has written a number of books about trends and philosophy, including a theoretical analysis of East Asian culture.Kyoko Iwaki Japan
Born in 1977. Journalist. She has covered articles in fourteen countries and twenty-six cities, and her writing has appeared in a range of publications, including AERA, Shukan Asahi and AGORA. In 2010 she was appointed as a creative associate at the new Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KAAT). Currently undertaking a master's course at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her book "Tokyo Theatre Today" is planned for publication in English and Japanese in September.Yiwei Keng Taiwan
Born in Hualien, Taiwan, in 1969. Currently assistant professor of theatre at National Taiwan University of the Arts, general secretary of the International Association of Theatre Critics for Taiwan, a committee member for Guling St. Avant-Garde Theatre, and jury chairman for the 2011 Taishin Art Awards. He will be artistic director for the Taipei Arts Festival 2012-2014.Namsoo Kim Korea
Dance critic and chief researcher for the National Theatre Company Scholar Publication team. He received the 9th Dance Awards' Dance Criticism Prize in 2002. He has contributed mostly to monthly dance magazine Mom and is also an editor at performing arts magazine Pan, founded in 2006. From 2008 he worked for 3 years as a curatorial researcher at the Nam June Paik Art Center.Hongyu Li China
Since 2001 has been a journalist and editor for Southern Weekly, mainly covering film and contemporary art. He writes reports on the international film festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Hong Kong, as well as on art events such as documenta (Kassel), the Venice Biennale, and Art Dubai. He is well-versed in theatre, dance, music and architecture.
Yuping Lin Taiwan
Born in Changua City, Taiwan, and graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University's mass communications department. Currently an assistant professor at Taipei National University of the Arts. After working as a journalist for Taiwanese newspaper, China Times, he studied in Japan in 1991 at Hiroshima University's sociology department, majoring in contemporary Japanese theatre. Currently also contributes criticism to performing arts journal PAR.Pawit Mahasarinand Thailand
Born in 1972.Teaches theatre and film criticism at Chulalongkorn University's Department of Dramatic Arts. He was a Fulbright scholar and Asian Cultural Council fellow, completing his master's degree in theatre at Northwestern University. He has contributed dance and theatre reviews to the Thai English-language newspaper The Nation since 2001. He watches around 150 theatre performances a year across Asia and Europe, and has translated over 10 works into Thai.Naoto Moriyama Japan
Born in 1968. Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design's Department of Performing Arts, and researcher at the university's Kyoto Performing Arts Center, editing its journal, Performing Arts. Member of the executive committee for KYOTO EXPERIMENT (Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival) 2011. His main publications include "On the Origin of the Silent Plays of Shogo Ota" and "'The Stage' Opened Up by the 'Documentary' ".Hyunseok Seo Korea
Born in 1972. Director and performing arts researcher. Lecturer in interdisciplinary arts at Yonsei University. His major directing work includes the productions "FAT SHOW", "Heterotopia", and "Desire Paths", as well as writing and co-writing several booksCrystal China
Born in 1972.Theatre critic and theatre producer. Special lecturer at Peking University's Institute for Culture Industries. She has assisted with establishing Chinese and university theatre festivals, and China's first private theatre, Beibingmasi Theatre. As well as helping to produce a number of different productions she has also written criticism in major Chinese media, as well as writing several books.
