EUREKA! 2.0 Rediscovering Weiwuying
A central goal of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) is to become the innovation hub for theater-makers in Asia. In 2017, a four-year collaborative project agreement was signed with the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ). The project is a collaboration between eight partners in Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Norway, Cyprus, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, and Taiwan. Weiwuying, as the representative of Taiwan, was also the only Asian partner in this collaborative project.
Over the course of the project, Weiwuying has opened up new opportunities for long-term collaboration between Asia and Europe—including exchanges among emerging designers/creators, internship, and exhibition exchanges—and fostered the development of a network of young theater-makers from Asia and Europe.
In May 2020, through the exhibition, creative and experimental lab, and performances of EUREKA! 2.0 Rediscovering Weiwuying, this collaborative arrangement generates partner art projects from multiple countries that bring a chance encounter with art in the public space in Weiwuying.
Exhibition
May 1(Fri.) –May31(Sun.) 11:00-21:00 (open daily)
Creative and Experimental Lab
May 4(Mon.)- May 9(Sat.) (not open to public)
Presentation
Time | May 8 (Fri) 14:00-16:00
Performance Lift Me Up
May 9 (Sat.) 13:30, 16:00
May 10(Sun.)13:30, 16:00
Exhibition │ Creative and Experimental Lab │ Performance Lift Me Up
Dates：May 1(Fri.) –May31(Sun.) 11:00-21:00 (open daily)
Location：3F Crown Terrace (West)
The EUREKA! 2.0: Rediscovering Weiwuying Exhibition is focused on the three indispensable core values of space, people, and theater-makers. As a design medium for a better life, Weiwuying has created a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for creative design exchanges, experimenting, and matchmaking. By bringing audience, performers, creative designers, and venue operators together in its unique architectural space, Weiwuying has set this group of people on an experimental adventure that begins within the building of the art center and extends to the Weiwuying Metropolitan Park outside, opening their imaginations to the idea that “life is theater.”
The exhibition showcases the four-year collaboration between Weiwuying and the Prague Quadrennial via text, images, videos, and performance props. Visit the exhibition to learn more.
Emergence
Inititated by PQ, the Emergence project is a three-year cultural research and exchange project in the frame of the Creative Europe program. This collaboration project consists of effort between Taiwan’s Weiwuying and seven other European art institutions, and has sparked a creative conversation between Europe and Asia. The primary participants in the Emergence project are designers, directors, actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists, digital creators, curators, producers, and managers. Through seminars, masterclasses, artist-in-residence workshops, live art performances, and exhibitions, these emerging creators share with the world how a new generation of art practitioners are able to extract collective cultural memories from our cultural heritage, transform them, and create alternative viewing experiences for the people of today.
More about the Emergence: www.emergence.pq.cz
Emergence Partners
  |
Prague Quadrennial / Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI) |
Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largest international exhibition and festival event dedicated to scenography, performance design and architecture. Since 1967 PQ has been an exchange, networking and educational platform exploring the best works in scenography and design for performance through exhibitions, festivals, workshops, performances, symposia, educational events and residencies. PQ brings together professionals, students and the general public from over 70 countries and regions with an attendance of over 180 000 audience members and visitors.
PQ shares the large world wide performance design platform and network of young designers and professionals. The Prague Quadrennial 2019 utilized the Prague Industrial Grounds, a site layered with cultural history, having been a source of national pride at the 1981 Great Exposition, a holding depot for Nazi concentration camps, home of many Communist Government celebrations, and now an architectural graveyard.
|
One of the world's greatest resources of art and design since 1837, where all works of art are available to all, to educate the visitors and to inspire designers and manufacturers. V&A alone has 3.7 million visitors per year including 15 million on-line. As one of the world’s largest collections of cultural heritage, the V&A actively question its own imperialist heritage while offering platforms to elevate unheard voices in contemporary society.
V&A shares their worldwide art platform, shares their audiences and opens the variety of spaces to performative activities and live exhibition approaches, V&A is interested in pursuing more in the future. In the face of Brexit, the V&A continues to explore cross-cultural exchange while developing new and maintaining existing artist bridges with Europe. In addition, the V&A has a standing relationship with Central Saint Martin and Rose Bruford College to create opportunities for emerging performance creators and students.
IZOLYATSIA, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Ukraine |
A non-profit platform for multidisciplinary cultural initiatives with the main mission to support cultural and social change. This organization was established in Donetsk region, and has been affected by the fighting there. Their work is an example of culture being a catalyst of positive change as they seek to react to an active conflict zone through art and performance.
IZOLYATSIA brings new experience and current information about conflict situations where culture and heritage plays an important role. They share their expertise and experts as well as provide, opportunity, space and time for artists to create work that contributes to diminishing intolerance, and embraces cultural differences and diversity.
 | The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, Poland |
The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute deals with documentation, promotion, and animation of Polish theatrical life. It supports educational projects, research, and acts as a publisher. The Institute manages the largest archive of theatre-related documents in Poland, maintains a library, houses a specialist bookshop PROSPERO, and runs a theatre studio where presentations are open to the public. The Institute manages a portal devoted to Polish theatre and the site “Encyclopedia of the Polish theatre”.
The Institute's programs and competitions aim at initiating activities within theatre pedagogy, supporting the staging of both Polish contemporary art and classic works of Polish literature, disseminating the idea of public theatre, as well as developing practices on the intersection of theatre and other fields, such as theatre photography, choreography in dramatic theatre, radio dramas, and other projects created by visual and new media artists.
Cyprus Theatre Organisation, THOC, Cyprus |
THOC, a State Body, is engaged in promotion of the art of theatre and cultivation of the theatrical sentiment of the people as well as the artistic relations between the theatre world of Cyprus, Greece and other countries. THOC fosters works from the ancient and new Greek, Cypriot and international dramaturgy in Cyprus and abroad, education and training of theatre and organizes performances in the ancient theaters of the island and other outdoor areas of Pan-Cypriot, Panhellenic or international character. THOC experts are also advisers to the Minister of Education and Culture on any matter relating to theatre.
THOC provides an opportunity to create a zone that is dividing people of the same culture where both visible and invisible tensions are present. This is a unique opportunity to learn from the situation and forge new connections. Through strong organizational leadership they seek to bring a performative response to the half-century old green zone which lies a mere stone’s throw from their doorstep.
 | Østfold University College, Norwegian Theatre Academy, Norway |
A top national and internationally recognized school for drama. NTA has an extensive experience in organizing projects bringing performing arts professionals and students together from around the world.
For the EMERGENCE project, they offer an already recognized platform to respond to mythologies using a newly developed methodology applied to a site located at the Haoya Island. They share their research and expertise in organizing workshops with students from Cyprus and Latvia.
 | New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Latvia |
New Theatre Institute of Latvia is the organizer of the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus, which is the leading performing arts festival in Latvia and one of the biggest in the Baltic region. It takes place in Riga and introduces audiences to both new and renowned artists that seek ways of expressing their views and opinions about the world and the society. Festival offers a range of performances as well as seminars, workshops and other activities. Since 1995 there have been 11 festivals, showing more than 100 different guest performances and producing several new works.
New Theatre Institute of Latvia shared their expertise in organizing site specific performances and audience development in PQ 2019. Thanks to Homo Novus festival theatre artists in Latvia have expanded their knowledge and practice and mastered their capacities in developing site-specific work. Festival has discovered and entered several sites and venues that later on have become autonomous public centers and continue to function as places for culture and the arts. Collaboration with the city and its sites, dramaturgy of the space, site-specific approach and focus on scenography as autonomous and innovative artistic practice have been among the interests of the festival for many years.
－Creative and Experimental Lab－
Dates：May 4(Mon.)- May 9(Sat.) (not open to public)
Presentation
Time：May 8 (Fri) 14:00-16:00
Location：1F Banyan Plaza, 3F Crown Hall
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) works towards creating a creative hub for theater-makers in Asia. Weiwuying and Prague Quadrennial (PQ) have joined forces to create opportunities for early-career theater-makers to develop and establish a network for international theater-makers between Asia and Europe, to provide a horizon for dialogue and collaborations.
In 2020, the Creative and Experimental Lab of EUREKA!2.0 Project at Weiwuying is our experiment with all makers, to explore new possibilities and revisit existing ideas. The six-day workshop allows theater-makers to experiment their ideas with or without concrete outcomes, make new connections and take the one-year old Weiwuying as lab grounds to break out and try wildly or mildly different.
Partner
Hualien Performing Space Festival |
Hualien is a beautiful city. With the green mountain, blue sky, spark sunshine, and grand ocean, we can define it is the most livable city in Taiwan. The first edition of Hualien Performing Space Festival is curated by Yi-Wei Keng and Yuan-Ching Yang. It invites the performative arts projects in public space including theatre, dance, music, circus, street performance, installation and live arts. There will be a two-day event. The first day will focus on the street performance, the second day will dedicate to the projects of urban engagement.
Time：May 9 (Sat.) 13:30, 16:00 ; May 10(Sun.)13:30, 16:00
Location：1F Banyan Plaza, 3F Crown Terrace (West), 3F Crown Hall (East)
Inspired by a Taiwanese political event in which a presidential candidate attributed his running for office to divine revelation, the artists of Weiwuying’s EUREKA Project created the Lift Me Up. The live exhibition is an attempt to understand the complex relationship between religion and democracy among individuals, groups, and in society itself through artistic creation and dialog.
In May 2020, Lift Me Up at Weiwuying will be unveiled as a reimagining of the original live exhibition first presented at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019. After its premiere in the Prague Quadrennial, the performance, which has been revamped to incorporate the local cultural context and social issues, is ready to meet the people in Taiwan.
At first glance, democracy and divine will are two parallel planes. But if a presidential candidate announces that he is running for office as a response to divine revelation, who do those ballots with his name checked count towards and under whose will do we serve?
In Partnership with: |
  |
EUREKA! 2.0 Rediscovering Weiwuying
A central goal of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) is to become the innovation hub for theater-makers in Asia. In 2017, a four-year collaborative project agreement was signed with the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ). The project is a collaboration between eight partners in Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Norway, Cyprus, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, and Taiwan. Weiwuying, as the representative of Taiwan, was also the only Asian partner in this collaborative project.
Over the course of the project, Weiwuying has opened up new opportunities for long-term collaboration between Asia and Europe—including exchanges among emerging designers/creators, internship, and exhibition exchanges—and fostered the development of a network of young theater-makers from Asia and Europe.
In May 2020, through the exhibition, creative and experimental lab, and performances of EUREKA! 2.0 Rediscovering Weiwuying, this collaborative arrangement generates partner art projects from multiple countries that bring a chance encounter with art in the public space in Weiwuying.
Exhibition
May 1(Fri.) –May31(Sun.) 11:00-21:00 (open daily)
Creative and Experimental Lab
May 4(Mon.)- May 9(Sat.) (not open to public)
Presentation
Time | May 8 (Fri) 14:00-16:00
Performance Lift Me Up
May 9 (Sat.) 13:30, 16:00
May 10(Sun.)13:30, 16:00
Exhibition │ Creative and Experimental Lab │ Performance Lift Me Up
Dates：May 1(Fri.) –May31(Sun.) 11:00-21:00 (open daily)
Location：3F Crown Terrace (West)
The EUREKA! 2.0: Rediscovering Weiwuying Exhibition is focused on the three indispensable core values of space, people, and theater-makers. As a design medium for a better life, Weiwuying has created a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for creative design exchanges, experimenting, and matchmaking. By bringing audience, performers, creative designers, and venue operators together in its unique architectural space, Weiwuying has set this group of people on an experimental adventure that begins within the building of the art center and extends to the Weiwuying Metropolitan Park outside, opening their imaginations to the idea that “life is theater.”
The exhibition showcases the four-year collaboration between Weiwuying and the Prague Quadrennial via text, images, videos, and performance props. Visit the exhibition to learn more.
Emergence
Inititated by PQ, the Emergence project is a three-year cultural research and exchange project in the frame of the Creative Europe program. This collaboration project consists of effort between Taiwan’s Weiwuying and seven other European art institutions, and has sparked a creative conversation between Europe and Asia. The primary participants in the Emergence project are designers, directors, actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists, digital creators, curators, producers, and managers. Through seminars, masterclasses, artist-in-residence workshops, live art performances, and exhibitions, these emerging creators share with the world how a new generation of art practitioners are able to extract collective cultural memories from our cultural heritage, transform them, and create alternative viewing experiences for the people of today.
More about the Emergence: www.emergence.pq.cz
Emergence Partners
|
Prague Quadrennial / Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI) |
Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largest international exhibition and festival event dedicated to scenography, performance design and architecture. Since 1967 PQ has been an exchange, networking and educational platform exploring the best works in scenography and design for performance through exhibitions, festivals, workshops, performances, symposia, educational events and residencies. PQ brings together professionals, students and the general public from over 70 countries and regions with an attendance of over 180 000 audience members and visitors.
PQ shares the large world wide performance design platform and network of young designers and professionals. The Prague Quadrennial 2019 utilized the Prague Industrial Grounds, a site layered with cultural history, having been a source of national pride at the 1981 Great Exposition, a holding depot for Nazi concentration camps, home of many Communist Government celebrations, and now an architectural graveyard.
|
One of the world's greatest resources of art and design since 1837, where all works of art are available to all, to educate the visitors and to inspire designers and manufacturers. V&A alone has 3.7 million visitors per year including 15 million on-line. As one of the world’s largest collections of cultural heritage, the V&A actively question its own imperialist heritage while offering platforms to elevate unheard voices in contemporary society.
V&A shares their worldwide art platform, shares their audiences and opens the variety of spaces to performative activities and live exhibition approaches, V&A is interested in pursuing more in the future. In the face of Brexit, the V&A continues to explore cross-cultural exchange while developing new and maintaining existing artist bridges with Europe. In addition, the V&A has a standing relationship with Central Saint Martin and Rose Bruford College to create opportunities for emerging performance creators and students.
IZOLYATSIA, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Ukraine |
A non-profit platform for multidisciplinary cultural initiatives with the main mission to support cultural and social change. This organization was established in Donetsk region, and has been affected by the fighting there. Their work is an example of culture being a catalyst of positive change as they seek to react to an active conflict zone through art and performance.
IZOLYATSIA brings new experience and current information about conflict situations where culture and heritage plays an important role. They share their expertise and experts as well as provide, opportunity, space and time for artists to create work that contributes to diminishing intolerance, and embraces cultural differences and diversity.
| The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, Poland |
The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute deals with documentation, promotion, and animation of Polish theatrical life. It supports educational projects, research, and acts as a publisher. The Institute manages the largest archive of theatre-related documents in Poland, maintains a library, houses a specialist bookshop PROSPERO, and runs a theatre studio where presentations are open to the public. The Institute manages a portal devoted to Polish theatre and the site “Encyclopedia of the Polish theatre”.
The Institute's programs and competitions aim at initiating activities within theatre pedagogy, supporting the staging of both Polish contemporary art and classic works of Polish literature, disseminating the idea of public theatre, as well as developing practices on the intersection of theatre and other fields, such as theatre photography, choreography in dramatic theatre, radio dramas, and other projects created by visual and new media artists.
Cyprus Theatre Organisation, THOC, Cyprus |
THOC, a State Body, is engaged in promotion of the art of theatre and cultivation of the theatrical sentiment of the people as well as the artistic relations between the theatre world of Cyprus, Greece and other countries. THOC fosters works from the ancient and new Greek, Cypriot and international dramaturgy in Cyprus and abroad, education and training of theatre and organizes performances in the ancient theaters of the island and other outdoor areas of Pan-Cypriot, Panhellenic or international character. THOC experts are also advisers to the Minister of Education and Culture on any matter relating to theatre.
THOC provides an opportunity to create a zone that is dividing people of the same culture where both visible and invisible tensions are present. This is a unique opportunity to learn from the situation and forge new connections. Through strong organizational leadership they seek to bring a performative response to the half-century old green zone which lies a mere stone’s throw from their doorstep.
| Østfold University College, Norwegian Theatre Academy, Norway |
A top national and internationally recognized school for drama. NTA has an extensive experience in organizing projects bringing performing arts professionals and students together from around the world.
For the EMERGENCE project, they offer an already recognized platform to respond to mythologies using a newly developed methodology applied to a site located at the Haoya Island. They share their research and expertise in organizing workshops with students from Cyprus and Latvia.
| New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Latvia |
New Theatre Institute of Latvia is the organizer of the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus, which is the leading performing arts festival in Latvia and one of the biggest in the Baltic region. It takes place in Riga and introduces audiences to both new and renowned artists that seek ways of expressing their views and opinions about the world and the society. Festival offers a range of performances as well as seminars, workshops and other activities. Since 1995 there have been 11 festivals, showing more than 100 different guest performances and producing several new works.
New Theatre Institute of Latvia shared their expertise in organizing site specific performances and audience development in PQ 2019. Thanks to Homo Novus festival theatre artists in Latvia have expanded their knowledge and practice and mastered their capacities in developing site-specific work. Festival has discovered and entered several sites and venues that later on have become autonomous public centers and continue to function as places for culture and the arts. Collaboration with the city and its sites, dramaturgy of the space, site-specific approach and focus on scenography as autonomous and innovative artistic practice have been among the interests of the festival for many years.
－Creative and Experimental Lab－
Dates：May 4(Mon.)- May 9(Sat.) (not open to public)
Presentation
Time：May 8 (Fri) 14:00-16:00
Location：1F Banyan Plaza, 3F Crown Hall
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) works towards creating a creative hub for theater-makers in Asia. Weiwuying and Prague Quadrennial (PQ) have joined forces to create opportunities for early-career theater-makers to develop and establish a network for international theater-makers between Asia and Europe, to provide a horizon for dialogue and collaborations.
In 2020, the Creative and Experimental Lab of EUREKA!2.0 Project at Weiwuying is our experiment with all makers, to explore new possibilities and revisit existing ideas. The six-day workshop allows theater-makers to experiment their ideas with or without concrete outcomes, make new connections and take the one-year old Weiwuying as lab grounds to break out and try wildly or mildly different.
Partner
Hualien Performing Space Festival |
Hualien is a beautiful city. With the green mountain, blue sky, spark sunshine, and grand ocean, we can define it is the most livable city in Taiwan. The first edition of Hualien Performing Space Festival is curated by Yi-Wei Keng and Yuan-Ching Yang. It invites the performative arts projects in public space including theatre, dance, music, circus, street performance, installation and live arts. There will be a two-day event. The first day will focus on the street performance, the second day will dedicate to the projects of urban engagement.
Time：May 9 (Sat.) 13:30, 16:00 ; May 10(Sun.)13:30, 16:00
Location：1F Banyan Plaza, 3F Crown Terrace (West), 3F Crown Hall (East)
Inspired by a Taiwanese political event in which a presidential candidate attributed his running for office to divine revelation, the artists of Weiwuying’s EUREKA Project created the Lift Me Up. The live exhibition is an attempt to understand the complex relationship between religion and democracy among individuals, groups, and in society itself through artistic creation and dialog.
In May 2020, Lift Me Up at Weiwuying will be unveiled as a reimagining of the original live exhibition first presented at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019. After its premiere in the Prague Quadrennial, the performance, which has been revamped to incorporate the local cultural context and social issues, is ready to meet the people in Taiwan.
At first glance, democracy and divine will are two parallel planes. But if a presidential candidate announces that he is running for office as a response to divine revelation, who do those ballots with his name checked count towards and under whose will do we serve?
In Partnership with: |
| |
