It is difficult to construct a viable web experience capable of demonstating the spirit and energy of an APPEX workshop. Sometimes it is best to be there. But some do say that the web is an interactive medium so we've tried to share some of the experience. We set up a section of our site devoted to the Ah Q! Performance Project which grew out of the APPEX workshops of 1996.

We continue to put up music and video clips in the salon and studio. We set up a discussion board to let us communicate with the global/local community of artist and writers interested to share their perspectives and experiences as they explore intercultural performance.

Eve Petrovic & Treva Offutt, 1997 APPEX Fellows

In 1999 and 2000, the APPEX summer workshop invited writers fellows to consider "intercultural performance" as an aesthetic, social and political response to the shifting cultural and political landscapes of America and Asia. Research conducted during the residency took place in tandem with the creative and collaborative work of the American and Asian APPEX Artist Fellows. As Writer Fellows interacted with artists and observed workshop activities, they developed research topics around the theme of Cross-Cultural Collaboration. In January 2004, A volume of these essays titled "Narrative/Performance: Cross-Cultural Encounters at APPEX" was published and is available from the CIP office.

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Introduction

Artists and Writers

Salons & Public Performances

Sights & Sounds of APPEX

Discussion Boards

Ah Q Performance Project

APPEX Fellowships

Working Group on the International Collaboration in the Arts

 

APPEX musicians and artists residency is made possible by The Ford Foundation, with additional support from the U.S. Department of State, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation Jakarta, The National Commission for Culture and Arts- Philippines, and the Asian Cultural Council.

The APPEX writers residency was sponsored by a grant from The Rockfeller Foundations' Arts & Humanities Fellowship Program.