PING PONG BREATHING 2025
Ping Pong is a performance art exchange program co-initiated by artists/curators Jason Lim and Trần Lương in 2024. Drawing its name from the “ping-pong diplomacy” policy, a negotiation initiative from the Cold War era, the project focuses on performance art – a multifaceted, flexible, and open art form in its methods of dialogue and negotiation. It aims to expand spaces for interaction, facilitating exploring, sharing, exchanging and mutual understanding between communities, and across different histories, cultures, and societies. The program encompasses fieldtrips, workshops, professional discussions, and performances. Alongside an increasing frequency of guidance and practice, it progressively builds and strengthens a theoretical foundation, paving the way for evolving practical approaches that are relevant to the local context as well as the contemporary international landscape.
About PING PONG BREATHING 2025
In the context of the global economic crisis, coupled with a shift in focus of leading art funding bodies towards environmental issues, migration, and gender equality, non-profit funding for performance art has been significantly reduced. Over the past decade, performance art activities have declined, developed slowly, and a portion has transformed into forms of experimental theater or entertainment.
The Ping Pong project was born with the desire to find a suitable mechanism to minimize costs and maintain sustainable operations. It is a series of wave-like activities to assimilate energy, nurture creative ideas, share resources and theories, and collectively address difficulties and engage in dialogue for theoretical development.
“PING PONG BREATHING” program resulted from a proposal by a performance artist group in Wuhan, China. Recognizing the positive energy of this artist group and their potential for collaboration, APD has become a local partner to co-organize the “PING PONG BREATHING” program, which includes a segment of the Wuhan artists’ “My Performance” practice series in exchanges with Vietnamese artists.
The program will take place over six days, from May 6 to June 11, 2025, in Hanoi, encompassing fieldtrip, a series of workshops, discussions and a final performance.
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Participating artists:
Fanxi Wang
He Yuchen
Pan Chennong
Yan An, YiChen
Đặng Thùy Anh
Nguyễn Thị Diệp
Nguyễn Hữu Hải Duy
Lem TragNguyen.
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The project is initiated by Jason Lim and Tran Luong, organized by the APD – Center for Art Patronage and Development.
Supported by UpGen Vietnam
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