Experimental Sound Creation Workshop
Masamitsu Araki,
Navvelaa Sukhakomkham,
Khetsin Chuchan
15-16 March 2025
13.00 - 16.00
Public Showcase
16 March 2025
17.00 - 18.00
Goethe-Institut
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*Workshop admission fee, 1,200 THB for non-BIPAM full pass holders
*limited capacity
ABOUT
A hands-on exploration of alternative approaches to sound design in live performance, this workshop is open to anyone curious about sound as a performative medium. Participants will engage in interactive exercises, discussions, and creative experimentation to push the boundaries of sound in performance.
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Participants must commit to the entire schedule, including both afternoons and the showcase.
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Open to all interested artists, musicians, performers, and sound enthusiasts seeking to expand their sonic imagination.**
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No prior technical experience required - just curiosity and openness to experimental approaches.
Workshop Highlights
- Hands-on creative exercises
- Close discussions with artists
- Exploration of alternative sound design practices
- Insights into creative processes and conceptual frameworks
Araki Masamitsu
An internationally acclaimed experimental sound artist, Masamitsu brings cutting-edge sonic perspectives from his curated performance at BIPAM 2025, offering rare insights into avant-garde sound creation.
Navvelaa Sukhakomkham
An emerging multidisciplinary artist pushing boundaries through radical sound experiments in performance, Sukhakomkham will share unconventional approaches to sonic expression.
Khetsin Chuchan
A classically-trained musician and composer exploring the liminal spaces between traditional musicianship and experimental sound art, Chuchan investigates radical possibilities of sonic performance.
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Future Dictionary
Speakers:
Gu Jiani - choreographer & dancer
Nagara Wada – theatre director
SAO Sreymao – multidisciplinary artist
Jarunun Phantachat - theatre director
Ophelia Jiadai Huang – curator; co-founder of Future Dictionary
Juliet Knapp, Yoko Kawasaki, Yuya Tsukahara – co-directors of Kyoto Experiment; co-founders of Future Dictionary
Moderators:
Ophelia Jiadai Huang & Juliet Knapp
16 March 2025
10.00 - 12.00
Goethe-Institut
*Full Pass Holders only
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Future Dictionary Workshop (Ophelia Huang x Kyoto Experiment x SEA artists)
Future Dictionary is a fluid, on-going platform to (re)discover words, concepts and ideas in contemporary performing arts living in the native languages of artists. It celebrates the diverse artistic sources and lineages through the words and practice of artists nowadays. In this session, four artists from Southeast/East Asia and the curators of Future Dictionary will unpack this project and its process together with the participants. Entries from some of the other participating artists will also be on display.
Yoko Kawasaki, Yuya Tsukahara and Juliet Knapp
Yoko Kawasaki After working at CAN Inc. and as an art coordinator for Kyoto Art Center from 2011-2014, she was a fellow for the Program of Overseas Study by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan and studied at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. In recent years she has planned and produced interdisciplinary performing arts projects. She has been involved as production coordinator at Kyoto Experiment since 2011 and is co-director since 2020. Yuya Tsukahara After graduating with a master’s degree in Aesthetics and Art Studies from Kwansei Gakuin University, he joined NPO DANCEBOX as a volunteer and later became a staff member. In 2006, he began activities as an artist as a member of the performance group contact Gonzo. In 2020, he received the Best staff award at the Yomiuri Theater Awards for his scenography and choreography in the theater work Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession. Since 2020 he is also a part-time lecturer at the Department of Sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts. Juliet Knapp Born in Fukuoka. Graduated Oxford University with a BA in English Literature and Language. From 2015-2017 she worked as communications manager and project manager for music and performance at Ryoji Ikeda Studio. She has been involved as a member of the PR team at Kyoto Experiment since 2017 and is co-director since 2020.
Ophelia Jiadai Huang
Ophelia currently works in Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre leading its international projects and has been organising ACT Shanghai Contemporary Theatre Festival since 2015. Previously, she managed residencies and arts projects for Arts Council England and British Council in China for a decade, and curated Forest Fringe Festival in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in 2015. Beyond her institutional role, Ophelia also writes for stage, publications, and works as dramaturg in various Chinese and international projects such as New Writing in China Project by Royal Court Theatre 2016-18. In 2023, she started independent initiative Future Dictionary together with Kyoto Experiment.
Nagara Wada
Nagara Wada graduated with a degree in film and performing arts from Kyoto University of Art and Design, and then completed the art studies master’s program at the same university. In February 2011, she began working as a theater director based in Kyoto and founded her own theatre unit, shitatame. With a deep interest in the act of acting, Wada deciphers texts and motifs as if zooming into them, aiming to establish a distinct language for acting with each performance.
Gu Jiani
Born in Mianyang, Sichuan, Gu is based in Beijing. She embarked on a journey as an independent choreographer in 2012, driven by a passion for exploring the nuanced physical language of contemporary dance. In 2016, Gu founded the Untitled Group. Her daring creations focus on the intricate interplay between the human form, physical space, and internal landscapes, prompting reflection on the complexities of our contemporary world. She also excels at constructing minimalist visual images in a space, and her conceptual design and physical structures allows her work to show profound philosophy on the human level. She was awarded the 2020 Asian Arts and Culture fund (AAC) New York Scholarship.
Jarunun Phantachat
Jarunun ‘Jaa’ Phantachat is an award-winning actor, playwright and director. She directed, produced and performed in numerous B-Floor productions and toured internationally with the company to Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, Denmark and the USA. Beyond her work with B-Floor, Jaa is a freelance writer, a voice-over director for the online game “Blizzard's Hearthstone” Thailand, and is a co-founder of Collective Thai Scripts, a group that curates the translation and publication of contemporary Thai scripts. As an actor she performed with other Thai and international theatre companies, most recently in Toshiki Okada’s “Pratthana: A Portrait of Possession” (2018-2019). She has also been featured in Thai and international TV and films.
SAO Sreymao
SAO Sreymao (b. 1986, Site 2 refugee camp, Thai border) is a multidisciplinary artist and graduate of Phare Ponleu Selpak’s School of Visual and Applied Arts. She also participated in Sa Sa Art Projects' Contemporary Art Class in 2016. She is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, digital drawing, sculpture, and performance. Her work explores personal expression and memories, as well as the changing physical and psychological landscapes of Cambodian urban and rural communities. She has collaborated with writers on visual storytelling and contributed to various publications. Her works have been exhibited locally and internationally, including in galleries and art festivals.
