Ping Pong Breathing 2025: Final Presentation
10 am – 06 pm, Sat & Sun 10 – 11 May 2025
APD Center for Art Patronage and Development
No. 1, Luong Yen, Bach Dang, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi
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From the organizer:
In the context of the global economic crisis, coupled with a shift in the 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 collectively address difficulties and engage in dialogue for theoretical development.
Ping Pong Breathing 2025 resulted from a proposal by a performance artist group from Feichuan Art Space in Wuhan, China. Recognizing this artist group’s positive energy and 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 exchange with Vietnamese artists.
Following a series of workshops and in-depth discussions, Ping Pong Breathing 2025 will conclude with two days of final performances on May 10th & 11th, 2025. The event features 08 artists from the project, and welcomes audiences to observe and engage in discussions following the performances.
Participating artists: Fanxi Wang, He Yuchen, Pan Chennong, Yan An, Đặng Thùy Anh, Nguyễn Thị Diệp, Nguyễn Hữu Hải Duy, Lem TragNguyen.
Co-organized by: APD – Center for Art Patronage and Development & Feichuan Art Space
Supported by: UpGen Vietnam
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
Notes:
– The event has a limited audience capacity to ensure quality. Successful registration confirmations will be sent to participants based on the order of early registration.
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