APPLICATIONS CLOSED!
February 1 to February 21, 2010 — BALI, Indonesia

APPEX 2010 is a three‐week intensive residency in Bali, Indonesia. For five days a week, artists will engage in master classes, studio workshops, experimentation, collaborative projects and public performances. On weekends and evenings, participants will be introduced to the vibrant arts and culture context of Bali through specially planned field trips and concerts. A total of 16 artists will participate in the APPEX 2010 program. CIP will recruit and select an equal number of American and Asian participants to take part in the program. Asian participants will be recruited from India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia.

Yin Mei (USA) & Aris Kadir (Malaysia) APPEX04

• US Fellows are provided with shared accommodations, meals, ground transport, cultural activities, and travel insurance.
• US Fellows are responsible for international travel expenses to and from Bali.

Who should apply

• Traditional and contemporary performing artists from USA are invited to apply.
• Special care will be given in the selection process to ensure a balance across disciplines.
  
• Artists who are active in the community as educators, artistic directors, and cultural workers are encouraged to apply.
  

Selection Criteria

• excellence in traditional and/or creative work in the areas of dance and music
  
• proven interest in intercultural issues, as evidenced by creative projects or research
• history of collaborative production and demonstrated artistic productivity
• experience and/or interest in international travel
• early to mid‐career artists

Workshop Activities

CIP and APPEX have worked to define ways in which intercultural experimentation can create alternative modes of practice and, at the same time, help artists respond to the changes they see in the world around them. The rich, interactive workshop environment of APPEX provides artists with the opportunity to expand their aesthetic range through exposure to new performance practices and approaches to creative production. APPEX Fellows develop the ability to collaborate across discipline and culture; learn mutual and self‐reflective critical techniques; and initiate life‐long friendships and professional networks. The successful format of APPEX demonstrates how cross-cultural collaboration can provide performing artists with a more informed understanding of Asia and America as well as valuable insights into their own worldview.

For 5 days a week, artists engage in all-day workshops and explore ideas for collaborative projects. Activities are structured as a series of interconnected components to progress over the course of the residency.

1. Individual Presentations
• Oral and video presentations. Fellows introduce themselves to one another by describing and demonstrating their own work and explaining the dynamics of cultural and professional circumstances.
• Master classes. Each fellow teaches an hour‐long workshop to the group. These workshops could be a class or lecture‐demonstration, showing a technical aspect of their art form or a more open‐ended approach to “creation”. The content of these sessions range from meditation practices, music lessons and improvisation, dance movement with modern as well as traditional origins or vocal exercises.

2. Experimentation
• Group projects and improvisations. Large blocks of time are devoted to creative experimentation and exploration. Fellows discuss and vote for ideas to be developed into collaborative projects. Subsequently, smaller groups are formed to work on “studies,” for which they are to devise, develop, and stage performance projects.

3. Public presentations.
• Showcase performances are organized to present new and traditional work by APPEX artists. Collaborative projects developed during the APPEX residency are presented in informal salon showings during the final week.

4. Reflections and reviews
• Informal writings. All participants are to submit informal writings in the forms of letters or journals before, during, and after the residency. These writings record the expectations, reaction and assessment of the program on an on‐going basis and are shared among fellows. • Debriefing and wrap-up sessions. Periodical debriefing sessions and weekly wrap‐up sessions allow for a more informal sharing of cultural and personal backgrounds as well as to discuss artistic issues and concerns emerged during lab hours or in the creation of group projects.

5. Educational Activities
Field trips to meet guest speakers, local artists, attend performance events and visit temples and other sites in Bali. Direct contact with people on site illustrates these powerful realities. This experience shared as a group will be useful resource material for collaborative projects.

Questions? Email Anu Kishore Ganpati at cip@arts.ucla.edu