Event Peer Gynts Asylum's Dreams (Tokyo)
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DescriptionThis project was awarded with the Ibsen Scholarship in 2019. This is event is the second phase of the project, and was completed in Tokyo, from August 23rd to September 6th, 2019. ABOUT THE PROJECT IN GENERAL: “Multitude of Peer Gynts” is a project initiated by director Yudi Ahmad Tajudin and dramaturg Ugoran Prasad from Teater Garasi in Indonesia. The project is an inter-Asian project where artists from as diverse countries as Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam and Sri Lanka will look into the fourth and fifth act of Henrik Ibsen´s “Peer Gynt”, creating a collaborative piece of performance. In these two acts, we find a disillusioned Peer traveling, trying to find his way in the world: through corrupt business and by re-imagining himself in new personas over and over again. In the last act of the play, we follow him in search for himself as he returns to his place of birth. From this platform, the project will spring thematically, exploring issues like mobility and immobility, fear and anxiety and the idea of “home” from the perspective of diverse Asian corners. The project looks at Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” as a courageous tactical manual of global mobility, border crossing, drifting, and intentionally getting lost in the fear-mongering, anxiety-inducing world from the perspective of precariat subjects. That is – getting lost in the search for a new sense and a different kind of home. “Peer Gynt” gestures toward the possibility of Peer Gynt’s imaginary that consists of a multitude of subjects alike that were forced to travel the world for various political, social, philosophical, and/or personal causes. With this possibility, the project is aimed to begin uncovering the larger picture of the overlooked, tactical world-map, where all these Peer Gynts came from. Looking at the shrinking but perpetually reterritorialized world from viewpoints of the diverse Asian corners, the project seeks to discover new intersections along the pathways of Asian precariat’s, those who navigate through fear and anxiety as engineered by the invisible and ubiquitous new Empires of our contemporaneity.
VenueMorishita Studio Of The Saison Foundation, 3 Chome-5-6 Morishita, Koto City, Tokyo 135-0004, Japan
First Date23rd August 2019
Opening Night23rd August 2019
Last Date6th September 2019
StatusProfessional
Primary GenreTheatre
Secondary Genre
    • Derivative work
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Contributors
_CONTRIBIDSORT_NameName_contfunctIONIDFunctionCharacterNotes
530437Iswardhani, ArsitaArsita Iswardhani379Actor
519004Tajudin, Yudi AhmadYudi Ahmad Tajudin375Director
519005Prasad, UgoranUgoran Prasad383Dramaturg
426902Ibsen, HenrikHenrik Ibsen386Playwright
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Works
Production NationalityIndonesia
Performance languageEnglish, Japanese
Further InformationThe second phase of the project was completed in Tokyo, from August 23rd to September 6th, 2019. As expected in our modular approach at the back of this project, the project’s two-week workshop in Tokyo, held in Morishita Studio of the Saison Foundation, had provided us with a fully concentrated time and space to work with only the core collaborators of the project, exploring the key parts of our interpretation of Peer Gynt. In the workshop, we managed to explore the notion of New-Empires and Modern Institutions by looking closer at the Act IV of Peer Gynt’s original text, which will continue to serve as the key components in the development of the work. At the end of our two weeks workshop, we also managed to create a workin-progress presentation in front of the select audiences (critics, fellow theater artists, and programmers) in Morishita studio on September 6th, 2013. The engagement with the selected audience of the work-in-progress presentation, and the follow up formal and informal discussions, while MULTITUDE OF PEER GYNTS – PROGRESS REPORT 2 expected in the planning of the project, had helped us to navigate to map out different areas, topics, questions, and reactions. Some of these areas and topics were located beyond our projection, illuminating a few sites that we then decided to explore in the future. While we approach each stage of the project as a respective modular component, we cherish the fact that each encounter site (Larantuka and Tokyo) continue to surprise us. The MPG phase in Tokyo was supported by the Japan Foundation-Asia Center, Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy (BEKRAF), and the Saison Foundation. (Source: https://tokyo.multitudeofpeergynts.net/)
Event Identifier102647
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