Common Stage – The Arts Between Cultures

Summer Academy “Common Stage 2014” 14 July – 10 August 2014, Hong Kong

“Common Stage” is a transcultural and cross-disciplinary summer academy and a collaboration of Zurich University of the Arts and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts including additional students from other institutions from Shanghai, Hangzhou, Taiwan and Singapore. This education format is unique as it brings together European and Asian culture, traditional and modern art forms and involves a wide range of different art disciplines. During four weeks, 35 selected students (working towards BA and MA degrees) from the fields of theatre, music, design, fine arts, and arts education develop plays, performances, events, interventions, and installations in mixed groups before presenting their work to an audience in a city environment.

Thematic and theoretical inputs are incorporated into the process. This makes it possible to observe and reflect on one’s own culture and that of others, as well as to develop innovative and comprehensive forms and formats of artistic expression.

Common Stage is part of “Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich” an initiative of Zurich University of the Arts in developing a future collaboration platform and study centre in Hong Kong in cooperation with different art institutions in Hong Kong, China and Asia. Common Stage will be further developed into an extended education format on MA-level in the timeframe of 2014-16.

Contact

Daniel Spaeti, Head of Common Stage, Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich, ZHdK
daniel.spaeti@zhdk.ch
Phone Zurich +41794328103; Phone Hong Kong: +85269779848

For more information

Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich: www.connectingspaces.ch
Common Stage: http://connectingspaces.ch/projects/trans-art/common-stage/

Public Presentations Common Stage 2014

8 and 9 August 2014
Exact time and venues to be communicated soon

Supported by Mercator Foundation Switzerland