FIELD MEETING Take 3: Thinking Performance, the signature program of Asia Contemporary Art Week 2015, stages specially conceived lecture-performances, talks and discussions by over 30 compelling figures, to foreground the diversity and critical role of performance work in the context of Asia. While emulating theexperience of a studio visit on a communal scale, the forum spotlights a wide range of practices beyond visual art in an effort to liberate performance from contemporary art world-institutionalized prescriptions. Thinking Performance invites broader, more nuanced interpretations and fresh understandings of performativity as an inherent part of all forms of artistic expression and production. FIELD MEETING: Thinking Performance thrives on unexpected connections in a variety of relevant subjects with a focus on creative process, conceptual exchange, experimentation and collaboration. By considering individual practices and dynamic relationships with historical discourses and social and political conditions, it acknowledges achievements within the field, while advocating approaches that critically unearth the recent past and thoroughly envision the future.

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See full curatorial statement here.