* The APARN 2025 Conference will take place in the Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (MCS) Building on the Chulalongkorn University campus July 1-3.
** To ensure clarity in the program, we will list one presenter per presentation though we warmly welcome additional presenters to attend and participate.
Tuesday, 01 July 2025
| Time | Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (MCS) Building on the Chulalongkorn University campus |
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| 8:00 - 9:30 |
Registration and Coffee
Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts Foyer
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| 9:30 - 9:45 |
Welcome Message and Introduction to APARN 2025 Conference
Pornrat Damrhung
Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts
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| 9:45 - 10:15 |
Conference Opening
by Chulalongkorn University Administration
Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts
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| 10:15 - 11:00 |
Keynote: Arahmaiani Feisal
"The Flag Project as Communal Environmentalism in the Asia Pacific: Re-interpreting Traditional Wisdom on Human-Nature Relations for the Contemporary World"
Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts
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| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Round Table Discussion
Danny Butt, Kurniawan Adi Saputro, Gunalan Nadarajan, Kamol Phoasavadi, Piyawat Thamkulangkool
Moderated by Lowell SkarSodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts |
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| 12:00 - 13:30 — Lunch Break | ||||
| Time | Room 1 (MCS 501/29) |
Room 2 (MCS 501/5) |
Room 3 (MCS 501/9) |
Room 4 (MCS 501/13) |
| 13:30 - 14:30 |
ID02 - The Climate Re-imagination
This panel brings together creative practices that respond to the climate crisis through relational, cross-disciplinary, and community-rooted approaches. From street theatre to botanical inquiry and art-science convergence, the works explore how artistic engagement can cultivate ecological awareness, multispecies care, and cultural resilience in a time of environmental precarity.
Ruttikorn Vuttikorn
: Climate Community Street Play: Cultivating Multispecies Networks of Care in Climate-Impacted Urban Neighbourhoods.
Kurniawan Adi Saputro
: Botanical Artists' Relationship with Vegetation: A Case of Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand
Angela Ricasio Hoten
: Creative Convergence across Art, Science and Culture in the Climate Crisis
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TP08 - Researching the Stage: Creation and Critical Reflection
This panel brings together artists who investigate how knowledge is generated through performance—from laboratory structures to cultural production and self-reflexivity.
Pornrat Damrhung
: Designing Laboratories for Artistic Research
Ashutosh Potdar
: Production of Knowledge in Researching for a Performance Work
Piyawat Thamkulangkool
: Creativity under pressure: Reflection from contrasting stakeholders’ gaze towards Thainess in Thai contemporary performing arts
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DM02- Ritual and Sacred Lineages in Dance
This panel explores how dance functions as an offering, spiritual medium, and cultural rite, from Malay ritual to Thai bucha to Dayak-Iban embodiment.
Kornkarn Rungsawang
: Mali Bucha: Dance Offering
Nadia Hazirah Nazren
: Ajat Indu Menua Pakan: Embodying Dayak-Iban Female Dance Tradition
Supphasin Ainphet
: Studying the study of being a Nora Duangkamol Boonchu teacher in educational institutions: a case study of Nora transmission
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VA01 - Art, Pedagogy, and Social Change
This panel explores how artistic practice and pedagogy intersect to drive community-based transformation. The focus is on feminist, ecological, and socially engaged approaches to education and design in Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Ngoc Tran
: Integrating Feminist Pedagogy in Vietnamese Graphic Design Education: Reimagine the Design Learning experience
Tharinee Ratanasatien
: E-Lerng Artists Collective: A Decade of Artistic Research in Community-Driven Transformation
Joyce Lu
: Social Justice in Playback Theatre
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| 14:40 - 15:40 |
TP10 - Crafting Performance through Movement, Mask, and Structure
This panel explores how performance techniques—mask work, physical actor training, and structural adaptation—shape contemporary theatre practice. From circular devising with masks in Romeo and Juliet, to physical comedy training for farce, to integrating Thai traditional play structures in modern theatre, these works reveal how embodied technique and dramaturgical craft inform innovative performance-making.
Maysa Utairat
: Circular Devising: Integrating Masks and Storytelling in Romeo and Juliet
Rusharnon Whongkomonl
: The Architect of Chaos: Physical Actor Training in Farce Through Mask Techniques for Bernard in Boeing-Boeing by Marc Camoletti
Sawita Diteeyont
: The application of traditional Thai play structures in the creation of modern Thai stage plays
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CF01 - Placemaking Through Art: Community, Collaboration, and Urban Identity
This panel explores how community arts practices foster local identity, cross-cultural collaboration, and urban transformation. Centered on projects in Bang Saen and beyond, these works illustrate how participatory art activates place, strengthens social bonds, and reimagines the cultural life of cities through creative engagement.
Kuntara Chaicharn
: Arts, Place, and Identity: Translating the Samyan Lalanjai Model to Bang Saen Ploen
Kusuma Venzky-Stalling
: Building Creative Community Through A Collaboration Of Different Culture
Nadhanant Uaesilapa
: Bangsaen Plearn: Making Bangsaen city lively through its community art
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AE01 - Art as Community Dialogue
This panel brings together artistic practices that engage local communities as both creators and audiences. Theatre becomes a means to challenge power, connect generations, and develop critical cultural consciousness through grounded, situated practice.
Mary Grace Compuesto
: Mindworks: A Cebuano Student Festival as Social Critic and Incubator of Performance Art
Chutima Maneewattana
: Playback Theatre as a Catalyst for Spiritual Growth: Exploring Buddhist Learning through Drama
Pachaya Akkapram
: Kaen Isan Wat: A Creative Theatre Space for Youth Utilizing Community and Local Culture as a Foundation to Connect the New Generation to Their Communities through Theatre Practice.
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VA02 - Embodied and Visual Storytelling as Research
This panel centers on embodied and visual modes of knowledge production. From movement to photography, these practices use narrative and aesthetics to engage deeply with lived experience and community identity.
Joan Marie Kelly
: Embodied Narratives: Visual Storytelling as Ethnographic Knowledge
Izabelle Louise Monteiro Penha
: Embodied and Visual Narratives: Kinaesthetic and Photographic Practices for Reimagining Community
Nomar Miano
: A Hermeneutic of Collaboration: Curating Community-Engaged Work in UNESCO's Creative City of Design
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| 15:40 - 16:00 — Break | ||||
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
TP11 - Mapping Space and Community in Performance Research
This panel investigates how space, community, and collective processes shape contemporary performing arts research. From mapping networks of practice in Thailand, to exploring the interplay of people, site, and experience, to examining the fragile yet forceful nature of collective research, these works foreground the spatial, relational, and processual dimensions of performance-making.
Lowell Skar
: Mapping Networks of Performing Arts Research in Thailand: A Preliminary Survey of Some Artists’ Performance Practices and Community-Building Processes
Nattaporn Thapparat
: Filling the Empty Space: People, Site and Experience
Andy Miller
: Making Space: On the Fragility and Force of Collective Research
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AE03 - Artistic Research and Empowering Creative Communities
This panel explores how artistic research and creative pedagogies foster empowerment and capacity-building within communities. From shaping participatory approaches to energy transitions, to enhancing local creative skills, to developing drama students through holistic methods such as the Enneagrams, these projects demonstrate how performance-based inquiry cultivates both personal and collective agency.
Yilmaz Vurucu
: From Manifesto to Method: Artistic Research, Community Voice, and the Reimagining of Energy Transitions
Dangkamon Na-pombejra
: Act Your Own Story: Enhancing Creative Skills for the Local Community to Develop Soft Power for the Nation
Sakchai Iamkrasin
: The Process of Developing Drama Students Holistically with the Enneagrams
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TP07 - Performing Archives and Re-reading Institutions
These projects reengage with the archive—be it material, affective, or institutional—examining how history is sensed, curated, and transmitted in contemporary performance.
Viorel Cojanu
: Performing Archives
Adrian TAN
: OPEN END: Resonate, Re-Read and Re-Trace The Substation Archive
Freda Fiala
: The Sensing Fold: Research, Affect, and Asia-Pacific Performance Festival Ecologies
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VA03 - Art, Place, and Cultural Memory
This panel explores how artists respond to place and heritage—through rivers, recipes, and rural or coastal geographies. Artistic practices here work to preserve, reinterprete, and revitalize local cultural ecosystems.
Sheba Saeed
: Preservation of Culinary Heritage of Vietnam via Art
Pietro Lo Casto
: Moist Maps: Reimagining the Mekong River Through the Materiality of Its River Weed
Kunal Ray Kunal Ray
: Making Art in Goa - Subodh Kerkar’s Collaborative & Community-based Art Practice
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Wednesday, 02 July 2025
| Time |
Room 1
(MCS 501/29) |
Room 2
(MCS 501/5) |
Room 3
(MCS 501/9) |
Room 4
(MCS 501/13) |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 |
MU01 - Community, Critique, and Sonic Agency
This panel explores how sound and music are harnessed as tools for social critique, identity formation, and community solidarity. From student-driven noise-making to people’s technology and musical movements in ASEAN, the panel highlights collective agency through sound.
Indrabakti Moch Hasrul
: Bibitulit: People’s Technology and Art as a Tool for Social Critique
Michael Hansen
: The Hear Us Through… Collective: A student driven community-based cacophony
Anant Narkkong
: New Sounds of ASEAN Music and Emerging Musicians in Southeast Asia
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ID03 - Community Theatre, Empowerment, and Collective Voice
This panel examines how theatre practices activate communities and amplify underrepresented voices. Through Playback Theatre, Kattaikkuttu training, and performance storytelling, each project demonstrates how narrative, embodiment, and collective process can build resilience and foster social change from within.
Manapee Khongrakchang
: Using Art-Based Practice with Youth for Building up the Community of Environmental Justice Storytelling
Saifon Faiseng
: Creating Performances for Community Storytelling
Varun Aiyer
: Training Towards Resilient Independence: a journey with Kattaikkuttu artists
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TP09 - Co-Imagining Communities through Performance, Humor, and Crisis
This panel explores how artistic practices activate relational spaces—between artists and audiences, between tradition and experimentation, and between crisis and recovery. From theorizing “CO-” as a generative methodology for collaboration, to analyzing women’s ritual humor as both resistance and reinforcement, to examining theater’s role in collective healing during times of upheaval, each presentation engages with the material and emotional dynamics of community-making.
Ingrid Cogne
: Im/Materialities of CO-. From CO-researching to CO-imagining.
Sweety Ruhel
: Discerning the Role of Ritual Performance’s Humour in Women Collectives as Disclosure of Community Prerogative Against Stereotypes or for Mere Entertainment.
Abigail Billones
: The Power of Theater and the Arts in Times of Crisis and Community Rebuilding
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VA04 - Rethinking the Collective
This panel explores philosophical, cognitive, and affective dimensions of art as a method for rethinking the collective. Drawing from Wittgenstein, neuroscience, and immersive aesthetics, the works challenge how we perceive and participate in shared realities.
Erika Matsunami
: On ‘R’ - intermediate ‘R’ and the collective as a unit
Piyakorn Koowattanataworn
: Breathe Critical. Poetic interaction with a performative installation to materialise ambiguous power in the presence
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi
: Awe in Immersive Art for Collective Change
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| 10:20 - 11:20 |
MU02 - Music as Cultural Mediator
This panel examines how piano performance becomes a site of cultural integration, especially in relation to Chinese traditional and poetic forms.
Xiaoshu Huang
: The Integration of Motion Techniques and Choreography in Piano Transcriptions of Chinese Instrumental Music
Yanpei Yi
: Bridging Chinese Chanting and Piano Interpretation in Chinese Ancient Poetry Art Songs
Junyu Yan
: Cultural Continuity and Artistic Expression in the Performance of Yellow River Piano Concerto
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CF02 - Creating Spaces for Community and Collective Imagination
This panel explores how performance practices create spaces for collective imagination and cultural dialogue. From poetic and site-based performance, to craft-informed community dance, to the adaptive staging of literary works, these projects demonstrate how performance fosters new forms of connection, reflection, and cultural expression within communities.
Bin Youn
: Reimagining Communities: Poetic Spaces of Light, Movement, and Language in Collective Experience
Patcharin Rompochuen
: Creative Dance Design to present the Identity of the Ban Phra Phloeng Mat Weaving and Processing Community Enterprise Group, Phra Phloeng Subdistrict, Khao Chakan District, Sa Kaeo Province: Fon Chak Soi Roi Ngern
Munin Suwanprasert
: The Process of Presenting an Adapted Play as a Stage Reading Performance: A Case Study of The Country of the Blind
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DM05 - Embodied Memory and Activist Dance
This panel explores how dance and embodied practices serve as living archives of resilience and activism. From the Kalavantulu repertoire to Chinese folk dance-drama to ecofeminist choreographic research, these works foreground the dancing body as a site where cultural memory, gender politics, and ecological consciousness intersect, offering pathways for resistance and cultural continuity.
Yashoda Thakore
: The Kalavantulu Body and Repertoire as Signifiers of Resilience
Nataporn Rattanachaiwong
: Dance-Drama as a Site for the Construction of Cultural Memory: A Case Study of the Guangzhou Dance-Drama Yingge
Alfonso Benetti
: Artistic research and activism: ecological and gender territorialities
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VA05 - Ecological Memory and Artistic Regeneration
These works explore ecological heritage and environmental entanglements. Through community craft, marine life, and cultural ecologies, they reimagine place-making and environmental stewardship through art.
Wanasak Pasungsestakit
: The Creation of Contemporary Art from the Salt Pan Cultural Ecology of Samut Songkhram
Nai Vongsuthep Wong Sowat
: Karang Penyu The Investigation of Site Specific Installation as a Coral Garden.
Donna Carollina
: Empowering Women Artisans through the Creation of Batik Motifs Inspired by Local Natural Resources: A Cultural and Economic Transformation in Wonoasri Jember
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| 11:30 - 12:30 |
MU03 - Embodied Inquiry and Cross-Cultural Flow in Musical Performance
Focusing on embodied knowledge and intercultural influences, this panel investigates performance-based artistic research, embracing rhizomatic learning, intercultural gestures, and reinterpretation across traditions.
Wenqin Li
: Exploring Rhizomatic Learning in Piano Performance: An Autoethnographic Journey into Artistic Research
Rodrigo Cordeiro
: Intercultural Hand Loafing
Qionglin Li
: Exploring the Influence of Ancient Chinese Poetry on the Performance of Western Romantic Piano Works
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CF03 - Ethics, Facilitation, and Learning in Artistic Practice
This panel investigates how collaborative processes—whether in education, facilitation, or material exploration—can reshape the ethics of artistic practice. Through case studies that span classrooms, creative alliances, and evolving tools, these presentations reflect on how co-creation becomes both method and philosophy for working with communities.
Zofia Reznik
: Facilitating "Współmyślenia”: Self-Research and Alliance-Building
Alex Gaja Ortega
: Beyond the Classroom: Exploring Collaborative Learning and Student-Lecturer Dynamics in Practice-Based Design Festival
Bagdonaviciute Julija
: "Rethinking Instrumental Ethics: Changing Materialities as a Pathway for Engaging with the Community"
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DM06 - Intertextual Bodies and Choreographic Hybridity
This panel brings together works that blur lines between traditional and contemporary, text and movement, fiction and archive.
Zainadance Zidane Ijau Anak Lanyun
: Intertextuality in Contemporary Dance "Quatrains of Hope": Movement and Iban Oral Literature as Text
Nareeporn Vachananda
: Intersubjective methodology for the interaction between traditional and contemporary practices
Vorawan Pinrattanakorn
: The creative research “Siamo-Portuguese Dance”
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VA06 - Archives, Memory, and Affective Resistance
This panel investigates how archives, visual literacy, and affect-based practices contest dominant narratives. These works bring to light silenced stories and rearticulate collective memory through cutting, framing, and ritual.
Elysha Rei
: Reimagining Memory: Paper Cutting as Affective Engagement with Japanese Internment Archives
Adjani Arumpac
: Watching the Photograph
Worathep Akkabootara
: Conjuring the Holy men : art activism and rearticulation of locality
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| 12:30 - 13:30 | LUNCH | |||
| 13:30 - 1430 |
MU04 Immersive Sound and Local Worlds
Centering immersive and place-based sonic practices, this panel showcases how composers and artists document, interpret, and reimagine soundscapes, ranging from endangered environments to acousmatic compositions and revitalized traditions.
Sutthiphong Ruangchante
: Creating the Whispers of Hala Bala Soundscape Album
Saranrat Sangchai
: Fragility: An Immersive Acousmatic Composition
Ardana I Ketut
: Reproduction of Traditional Karawitan Gending with Hybrid Instrumentation For Community Revitalisation in Art Performances
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ID01 Artistic Research and Empowered Voices
This panel explores how performance-based artistic research fosters empowered forms of leadership, healing, and identity expression. Through performance art addressing bullying, devising and musical processes that cultivate leadership and community, and culturally responsive voice pedagogy, these works highlight how voice, embodiment, and collaborative practice drive personal and collective transformation.
Jutaphit Usaha
: Writing A Coping With Social Bullying: Creating Performance Art From Narratives Of Personal Experience
Irfana Majumdar
: The Confluence of Leadership and Artistic Research: Insights drawn from Devising, Hindustani Music, and Creating Community
Kiattipoom Nantanukul
: Voice as a Site of Memory, Geography, and Identity: Toward a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy of Voice Training for Performers
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DM07 Embodied Heritage: Movement, Puppetry, and the Politics of Cultural Transmission
This panel brings together practices of embodiment, from pupetry to traditional and contemporary dance, to examine how physical expression preserves, transfors, and politicizes cultural heritage. Whether through educational approaches to East-West pupetry exchange, community-based dance for psychosocial wellbeing, or Afro-Emirati choreography as a reclamation of voice, each presentation investigates how movement and material performance become vital tools for cultural continuity, resilience, and identity articulation.
Nimit Pipithkul
: Education and Linking the History of East and West Puppet
Lee Mei
: Physical and Mental Nourishment and Social Effects of Dance Works on Community Dancers : A Case Study of Golden Peacock Art Troupe
Ameena Aljerman Alali
: Waves of movement through suspension then release: Finding the voice of Afro-Emiratis
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VA07 Heritage, Materiality, and Cultural Transformation
This panel interrogates how material culture—textiles, ceramics, silverwork—embodies memory, transformation, and socio-ecological value. Artists here work across tradition and innovation to preserve and reshape local knowledge.
Michail Semoglou
: Algorithmic Interpretations of Epirote Silverwork: Digital Evolution of Cultural Heritage
Dyah Retno Retno Fitriani
: Sustainability in Ceramics: An Exploration of Waste Utilization and Communal Engagement through Baravia Pottery and Workshop
Yihui Liu
: Tracing the Roots of the Morinda Red
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| 14:40 - 15:40 |
MU05 - Heritage in Practice: Music Pedagogy, Performance, and Documentation
This panel looks at the artistic transmission and preservation of intangible heritage—through pedagogy, institutional case studies, and cross-cultural musical analysis—across India, China, and Vietnam.
Jia can Sun
: Multidimensional Analysis of the Integration of Chinese and Western Music in Guzheng: A Case Study of "Ding Feng Bo"
Sameer Dublay
: Creating a Community through Music – A case study of Pt. Jitendra Abhisheki Saghan Gaan Shikshan Kendra, Kankavali, Maharashtra, India
Quy Nguyen
: AN ARTISTIC APPROACH TO INTANGIBLE HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION IN VIETNAM: XOAN SINGING
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ID05 - Performing Place and Possibility: Travel, Tourism, and Community Futures
This panel explores how performance practices shape, complicate, and reimagine the experience of place—from homestays to borderless movement, from tourism mythologies to community-based choreography. Whether through participatory storytelling, tourism frameworks, or intergenerational dance, these works offer alternative mappings of how we arrive, belong, and build futures with others.
Khalid Midam
: Analyzing the Opportunities for Ban Laem Homestay to Develop Tourism Activities through a Performative Experience Framework
Roy Huijsmans
: Fanglao, Generation and Prefiguration: Building community and demonstrating futures through dance in Vientiane, Laos
Jesse Todd
: Getting there <---> Getting Lost: Sharing Stories Where Traveler Myths Meet Tourist Realities
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DM08 - Movement Histories and Cultural Archives
Artists in this panel translate oral, visual, and architectural histories into choreographic form—mapping dance as a living archive.
Miao Lian
: The Dynamic Writing of "Boat Dwelling" Culture: A Study on Dance in the Danjia Culture of Beihai, Guangxi
Yi jing Xue
: The Presentation and Dissemination of Jin Merchant Culture through Dance in “Pingyao Again”
Siwat Visuthirungsiuri
: Developing a Conservation Guidebook for The Lion & Dragon Dance Team
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VA08 - Myth, Mystery, and Multisensory Inquiry
This panel centers aesthetic intensity, multisensory experience, and philosophical immersion. Whether invoking Kant’s sublime, spatial ambiguity, or immersive installation, these artists confront overwhelming scales and sensuous interfaces.
Siriya Jitpimolmard
: Might and Magnitude
JEANETTE MUELLER
: Conception of SYS: THE SMELL OF A MYSTERIOUS BEING
Nicha Chakchuandee
: Felines in Art and Ritual
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| 15:40 - 16:00 — Break | ||||
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
ID06 - Arts, Embodiment, and Well-being in Aging and Disability
This panel explores how artistic and embodied practices support psychological well-being, social connection, and empowerment among aging populations and people with disabilities. From choral singing for Thai elders, to arts-based research in dementia care, to reimagining the wheelchair in embodied experience, these projects highlight the transformative role of the arts in health and social inclusion.
Nutthan Inkhong
: DEVELOPING A CHORAL SINGING PROJECT TO ENHANCE PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN THAI ELDERLY
Ruth Mateus-Berr
: DEMEDARTS. (Dementia.Empathy.Education.Arts.) Artistic Research on Patterns of Perception and Action in the Context of an Aging Society.
Adhitia Guspara Winta
: The Wheelchair: The Agent to New Embodiment and New Role in the Living Experience of a Person with Paraplegia
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ID04 - Community Performance and Cultural Identity
This panel explores how performance serves as a tool for negotiating community identity and cultural continuity. Through slow, process-driven aesthetic actions, contemporary folk theatre, and urban village performance, these works engage with local histories, traditions, and spaces to foster dialogue and collective meaning-making within diverse communities.
Sukanya Sompiboon
: The Image of Something Better: Methodologies of Transcultural Flows in Likay Performance
Simon Lindblom
: Keep it Slow, Make it Complex: Aesthetic Actions for Community at Konstlek på Råby
Yulfianti Yola
: Voices From An Urban Village: Negotiating The Ethnic Identity of Kalipasir Cikini Village Through Performing Arts
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DM09 - Choreography Beyond the Stage: Dance, Media, and Representation
This panel explores how choreography expands beyond traditional performance venues into digital, visual, and urban environments. Through video installation, embodied research, and cityscape documentation, the works presented examine how dancers navigate issues of presence, identity, and visibility.
Srichalakom Sirithorn
: "From Hopscotch to Diversity: The Creative Journey Behind the Dance Video Installation 'Step, Step, Hops!' at The Peninsula Bangkok"
Padparadscha Kaewploy
: Habitus: The Natural Characteristics of The Balletic Body
ANDREW IGAI JAMU
: From Rumah Panjai to the Entertainment Hub in Kuala Lumpur: Choreographing Contemporary Dance based on Iban Tradition
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VA09 - Art in Community, Space, and Legacy
This panel explores the intersections of visual language, participation, and cultural transformation. Whether through collaborative design, community-driven storytelling, or reimagining artistic legacies, these presentations reflect how visual and spatial practices can catalyze social engagement, health equity, and poetic reinterpretation of place.
Nur Hikmah Fitriyah Binte Mohammad Rafiz
: Visual Storytelling as a Catalyst for Health Equity and Community Empowerment
Melody Yiu
: Ecologies of Participation – a collaborative exploration across architecture, arts, and technology
Nawapooh Sae-tang
: Beyond Tang Chang's landscape
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Thursday, 03 July 2025
| Time |
Room 1
(Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts) |
Room 2
(MCS 501/5) |
Room 3
(MCS 501/9) |
Room 4
(MCS 501/13) |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 |
TP06 - Tradition, Immersion, and the Integrated Self
This panel examines how performance fosters personal and social integration through immersive experience, cultural continuity, and reflective transformation. From reinterpretations of classical Asian literature to embodied immersive activism and holistic theatre practices, these works reimagine the stage as a space of healing, empowerment, and cultural resonance.
Sukumala Nithipattaraahnan
: The Happiness Space: From Artistic Roots to Integrated Wisdom
Hui gai Zhang
: Fusion of Tradition and Modernity: A case study of "Dream of Red Mansions"
Grisana Punpeng
: When ‘immersive’ is not just a trend but a socially driven tool: Ila Raja is Me
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ID07 - Ritual Reimagined and Embodied Memory
This panel explores how artists engage with ritual, heritage, and embodied practices to reclaim, reinterpret, and resist dominant cultural narratives. Whether rooted in Lanna literary pilgrimage, subversive reworkings of the veiled body, or Buddhist funeral dances in Bangladesh, these performances activate memory as a living, sensuous archive for transformation and resistance.
Weerinphat Booranasakawee
: Reverse Artistic Engineering of Lanna Heritage: A Site-Specific Contemporary Performance Inspired by Nirat Hariphunchai
Majid Sarnayzadeh
: Embodied Memory and Subversive Performances: Reimagining the Veiled Body in Collective Action
JANNATUL FERDOUS
: Music, Dance, and Transformation: Funeral Rituals of Marma Buddhist Monks in Bangladesh.
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FM01 - Digital Practices and Archival Agency
This panel explores how artists and researchers engage digital media and online platforms not only for creation and critique but also for fostering community, visibility, and expanded archives of Asian popular and artistic cultures.
Zheng Wang
: Community Making through Social Media and Artist Website in Chinese Media Art
Renick Bell
: Live coding as a Form of Critical Media
Gian Cruz
: Intimate, Performative and Everyday Affinities: Archiving Pop Culture from Southeast Asia, East Asia and Beyond as Artistic Practice and Research
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VA10 - Reframing Cultural Heritage
This panel highlights how contemporary curatorial and performative practices engage with Islamic and Malay cultural heritage to challenge orientalist narratives and negotiate identity. From architecture as community anchor to choreographic curation to transnational justice-oriented approaches, these works explore how embodied and spatial practices reshape cultural memory and representation.
Riyaz Latif
: Sultanate Monuments of Ahmedabad as Community Anchors
Samah Ayesha
: Beyond Orientalism: Islamic Social Justice as a Transnational Curatorial Praxis
Noramin Farid
: Malay Dance's Herotopia: Choreocurating Singapore’s Malay Representation
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| 10:00 - 10:20 — Break | ||||
| 10:20 - 11:20 |
TP05 - Dramaturgies of Discovery Through Improvisation, Devising, and Directing
These artists explore creative processes across improvisation, devised theatre, and farce—reflecting on how structure, intuition, and play shape meaning.
Pannatat Po-dhivejakul
: The Aesthetics of Improvisation: A Case Study of Eastern and Western Devised Theatre Processes.
Thanyarat Praditthaen
: The creative work "Improv to Script: The Character Journey"
Methawut Nualchawee
: When Pretense Reveals the Truth: Directing Tragic Farce to Reflect Escapism
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ID08 - Performance and Social Justice: Art, Marginalization, and Queer Resistance
This panel highlights how artistic practice confronts social inequities and amplifies marginalized voices. From democratizing classical music for Dalit and fisher communities, to advocacy for homeless LGBTQ+ individuals, to reframing queer stigma through gothic musical theatre, these works demonstrate how performance can resist oppression, foster empathy, and spark social change.
Sindhuja Suryadevara
: Democratizing Art: Examining T.M. Krishna’s Engagement with Marginalized Communities
Netchanok Chuenamphan
: The Risk of Sexual Exploitation in Secluded Areas Among Homeless LGBTQ+ Individuals under the Phra Pinklao Bridge
Patsupang Kongbumrung
: Reframing Queer Stigmas Through Contemporary Gothic Musical Theatre: A Case Study on Directing Thrill Me: The Musical for Thai Audiences
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FM02 - Mediating Memory and Identity Through Creative Forms
This panel brings together works that use experimental and mixed media forms to navigate histories of trauma, political memory, and self-making in Southeast Asian contexts.
Megan Wonowidjoyo
: Invisible Connections: Exploring Intergenerational Trauma through Experimental Filmmaking
Lutfia Sashi Kirana
: Media Portrayals of the 30 September Movement in Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis
Sutida Singharach
: The Creation of Krai Kha Tia: A Mixed Media Stage Play for Actor Development and Personal Branding at Maiosiam Artist Management
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AE06 - Embodied Pedagogies and Critical Somatics
This panel centers the body as a site of resistance, intuition, and transformation. Through somatic awareness and affective learning, presenters articulate new pathways for community building, educational reimagination, and ethical artistic practice.
Olga Merekina
: Balancing Power(s) in a Community-based Artistic Practice and Education
Andrea Traldi
: Becomebecome – A Transdisciplinary Method for Art Education/Incubation and Community Building based on Somatic Awareness, Somatic Intuition, and Somatic Psychology
Kittirat Pluemjit
: Reconnecting Humanity Through Arts and Cultural Learning: Cultivating Learning Creators for Cultural Action and Change
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| 11:30 - 12:30 |
TP04 - Reviving Performance Legacies: From Regional Roots to Actor-Centered Craft
This panel brings together projects that honor and reinterpret performance traditions across Thai and international contexts. From revitalizing Lam Phueng for youth audiences in the Isan region, to managing contemporary folk theatre for a local festival in Chonburi, to adapting Michael Chekhov’s acting techniques in staging The Proposal, each work reflects a deep engagement with the past to serve the present. The panel invites discussion on how diverse theatrical forms—folk, festival-based, and actor-driven—can be tools for cultural continuity, education, and creative transformation.
Ratchaneekorn Jantaharn
: Contemporary Isan Storytellng Folk Songs (Lam Phueng) for Children and Youth
Nisachol Prasatsuwan
: Management of the Contemporary Folk Theatre Production 'The Red Ship Warrior' at the Eng Kor Festival 2025, Phanat Nikhom, Chonburi
Sahatsawat Chotkhan
: Exploring the Impact of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Methods on Character Development in The Proposal
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ID09 - Performing Ecologies and Environmental Perception
This panel investigates how performance and artistic research can reveal the entangled relations between humans and more-than-human worlds. From bird-window collisions to river cosmologies in urban Asia to animist theatrics of ricelihood in Northern Thailand, these works invite us to see, feel, and rethink ecological connections that often remain invisible.
Yipei Lee
: Visible and Invisible Impact
Michael Hornblow
: Human ecologies and hydro-cosmologies in Bangkok and Tokyo
Sirithorn Siriwan
: Performing Ricelihood - Kinesthesia and Animist Theatrics in Northern Thailand
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FM03 - Future Commons and Critical Technologies
Focusing on speculative, technological, and socio-political futures, this panel discusses how creative practices engage with AI, virtual worlds, and collective imagination to propose new survival strategies and cultural infrastructures.
Thanut Rujitanont
: Collective Animation as Well-being Creative Practice
Annie Wan
: Humanizing Technologies: A Survival Toolkit Navigating the Artificial Intelligence Era in Migration Studies
Debbie Ding
: Wasteland: Virtual Worlds as Urban Commons
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AE02 - Mapping Space and Self through Creative Practice
This panel explores how artistic processes map both external environments and inner worlds. From subjective cartographies of the Philippines, to ecological learning through a living garden, to drama-based approaches to personal transformation, these works demonstrate how creative practice fosters reflection, growth, and new ways of knowing across individual and collective domains.
Josephine Turalba
: PROJECT PANATAG: Subjective Mapping of the Philippines Consolidated Field Notes
Eleonora Cavallini
: Hortus ăpertus
Paiboon Sophonsuwapap
: Transforming the Inner Self with Drama Programs for Learning
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| 13:30 - 1430 |
AE05 Experimental and Process-based Education
This panel explores how artistic research unsettles conventional educational frameworks through process-based, hybrid, and transdisciplinary approaches. The presenters investigate how creative fermentation, audience development, and re-commoning knowledge can reimagine both learning and making.
Lleah Amy Smith
: Agitating towards Flourishing: Fermentation Intelligences in the Para-Pedagogical
Vincent Roumagnac
: Discipline-Fluidity and Artistic Research (As) Ecosystem: Re-Commoning Through Hybrid Thinking-Making-Sharing
Nikorn Sae Tang
: Read Listen Go (Process of writer+actor refreshing and Audiences development)
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TP01 - Speculative Performance and More-than-Human Futures
This panel brings together artistic research that challenges anthropocentric worldviews and envisions more-than-human futures. From Lanna performance as ecological practice to speculative design disrupting AI narratives to non-anthropocentric dramaturgies, these works explore how creative methodologies can foster new ethical, ecological, and performative imaginaries.
Thanaporn Saen-ai
: Lanna Performing Arts and Natural Conservation: Exploring Pathways and Possibilities in the Digital Age
Freyja van den Boom
: Lanna Performing Arts and Natural Conservation: Exploring Pathways and Possibilities in the Digital Age
Melina Scialom
: Non-anthropocentric dramaturgies as a possibility for engaging with more-than-human communities.
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DM03 Artistic Research and Emerging Creative Ecosystems
This panel examines how artistic research, dance curation, and education contribute to the development of vibrant creative ecosystems. From Thai dance scholarship to Malaysian choreographic platforms to cross-disciplinary educational transformation, these works explore how artists and educators shape new forms of learning, community building, and artistic innovation.
Phakamas Jirajarupat
: Exploring the Developing of an Artistic Ecosystem in Thai Dance Education: A Case Study of SSRU Thai Dance Theses
Mohd Zhafir Muzani Mohamad
: Curating the KonTra Series as a Heterotopic Platform for Emerging Malaysian Choreographers
David López-Ruiz
: Artistic Research and Creative Communities: A Contribution to Contemporary Educational Transformation
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AE04 Pedagogical Change in Higher Arts Education
This panel discusses how institutions can evolve through artistic research and curriculum reform. Presenters share challenges and strategies for embedding creativity, community, and regional relevance into higher education systems.
Tanatchaporn Kittikong
: Creative Curriculum: Rethinking Performing Arts Education in Thai Higher Education
Simo Kellokumpu
: Embedding/Embodying Artistic Research in Dance and Performance Master’s Programs: Challenges, Strategies, and Community-Building
Bun Rith Suon
: Exploring Arts Education in Cambodia: A Case Study
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| 14:40 - 15:40 |
DM04 - Dancing With Place: Movement, Sound, and Environment
This panel investigates how movement practices foster embodied dialogues with environment — from natural landscapes to sonic textures and urban spaces. These works reveal how improvisation, ecological consciousness, and somatic presence enable dancers to navigate, reimagine, and reconnect with the worlds they inhabit.
Sineenadh Keitprapai
: Moving with Nature: The Way to Reconnect with Nature
KANIT SRIPAORAYA
: Improvisation: Aesthetic Dialogues between Sound and Movement of Southern Thailand
Urmimala Sarkar
: Delhi Dancescape: Dancers navigating presence and representation
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ID10 - Heritage, Community, and Creative Expression
This panel explores how artists engage with cultural heritage through process-driven and community-based creative practice. From revitalizing Indian fine arts in Singapore, to revealing peripheral flows through film in Ho Chi Minh City, to devising performance that bridges Balinese and Lanna traditions, these projects demonstrate how creative methodologies activate heritage in contemporary cultural life.
Siri Rama
: The Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society (SIFAS), a case study on reimagining artistic communities through a shared heritage
Andrew Stiff
: The side glance: Creative film practice as a medium to reveal the intangible heritage of peripheral flow in Ho Chi Minh City
Narumol Thammapruksa
: From Balinese Cultural Heritage to Lanna Wisdom: Creating Performing Arts through Devised Theatre
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TP02 - Theatre for Empathy and Self-Discovery
This panel explores how theatre-based practices foster empathy, self-awareness, and emotional resilience. Whether training medical students in empathic communication, navigating loneliness and anonymity in urban spaces, or empowering first-year students through self-reflective performance, these works illustrate the transformative potential of dramatic arts in education and personal development.
Chanut Pongpanich
: Using Dramatic Arts to Enhance Empathic Communication Skills of Thai Medical Students
Anna Lorena Schaeben
: Alone in the Crowd: An artistic approach to Loneliness, Anonymity, and Transit Spaces in Tokyo
Ubonwan Moonkanta
: Stage of Self: Empowering First-Year Students through Theatre-Based Self-Discovery
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TP03 - Performing Transformation and Emotional Presence
This panel explores how performers navigate identity, energy, and emotional healing through embodied practice. From gender play, to reimagining energy in solo acting, to dramatizing the emotional lives of medical personnel, these works demonstrate the power of performance to externalize inner worlds and foster transformation.
Laura Hayes
: Playing with Gender
Marian Poom-on
: From Projecting to Radiating : Reimagining Energy in Solo Acting
Vasan Mahakiattikun
: Playwriting “Tales from the Hospital”: Inspired by Mementos from the Hospital by Dhepsiri Suksopha and Integrating Drama Therapy Concepts to Portray the Emotional Healing of Medical Personnel
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| 16:00 - 17:00 |
DM 01 - Dancing the Soul: Embodiment, Identity, and Living Heritage
@Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts (MCS 6th floor)
This panel explores the body as a site of cultural transmission and creative inquiry within the context of identity. Through experimental embodiment, community-rooted practice, and critical reflection on the dancer's role, the works presented investigate how local traditions are not only preserved but also reimagined through movement, performance, and collaborative research.
Padung Jumpan
: Learning to Dance Khwan: Experiments with Embodying the Spiritual DNA of Isaan Culture
Pongsatorn Yoddamnean
: Embodying Isan Identity: Developing Folk Performance Practice through Community-Based Artistic Research
Natthakan Bunsiri & Friends.
: Dancer as a Tool: Dynamics of Creation and Performance Implementation
(Friends include: Nuttawat Sitti, Narutphol Na Phatthalung, Teeradach Klinchan, Napasorn Setasartit, Pawaret Jenpoomdech, Wachirapilan Chokcharoenrat)
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APARN 2025 CONFERENCE CLOSING SESSION
APARN Conference Closing – Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts
Remarks by Sawita Diteeyont and Lowell Skar
Special Performances
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