2011 Performing Arts Market in Seoul
Looking for International Partners Showcase
Selection Results
The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Arts Management Service accepted submissions for a Looking for International Partners (LIP) participant project showcase to be presented at the 2011 Performing Arts Market in Seoul, which is scheduled to take place at the National Theater of Korea and other venues from Oct. 10 to 14, 2011.
Applications were taken from prospective Korean and overseas participants in related categories between Aug. 1 to 17, 2011. Following a review by internal and external experts, the final selection was made as follows.
1. Review and Selection Status
Two projects were entered, with one selected as the final showcase project.
1) Review Committee (Name / Position and Organization)
- Kim Pil-guk : Arts support team leader, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
- Park Ji-seon : Strategy and planning chief, International Development Division, Korea Arts Management Service
(* Members presented in alphabetical order)
2) Final Selection (Group / Production)
- Point View Art (Macau) / Playing Landscape
2. Selection Benefits
ㅇ Opportunities for presentation and performance to Korean and overseas performing arts specialists attending PAMS
ㅇ Entitlement to apply for creative space use to develop work
ㅇ Information and consulting support for partner matching during and around LIP program period
ㅇ Authorization to apply for next year's LIP Showcase (as project under development or completed work)
3. Reviewers' Assessment
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Playing Landscape
The LIP Showcase marks an expansion of the LIP presentations seen at previous PAMS events, with international collaborations the subject of increasing attention. For this year's LIP Showcase, we decided to select one of two candidate productions: Plastic Skin, a co-production between a Korean dance company and German dancer, and Playing Landscape, a collaboration among artists from Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Seoul. Both were developed with enthusiasm and creativity and sought out partners in Korean presenters and artists, including choreographers, dancers, and media artists. Each showed potential for continued development.
Plastic Skin could be viewed as being a very suitable choice in terms of its having been developed through a residency workshop between an overseas choreographer and Korean dance company and its being a collaborative project with long-term plans. But because Playing Landscape has seen continued development according to concrete plans for the years 2008 and 2012, because it is a novel work being produced as a collaboration among artists from different genres in four Asian countries, and, finally, because the 2011 PAMS event focuses on Asia under the theme of "creative collaboration," we decided to select it for the LIP Showcase.
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