Embodies contemporary perspectives and values of the time

2022 SPAF

Artistic Vision
SPAF is an international performing arts festival that offers contemporary perspectives and values of the time. It appreciates the imaginative and creative powers and experimental nature of artists. The festival bases itself on the diversity, inclusivity and accessibility of art, while also pursuing and practicing an environment-friendly festival in response to the climate crisis. SPAF also provides opportunities for contemporary audiences and local communities to enjoy and participate in performing arts. It promotes contemporary art based on the locality and translocality of Seoul, Korea and Asia, creating a venue of solidarity and cooperation with an international and global perspective.

Curatorial Direction 2022-2026
SPAF suggests five curatorial directions to achieve the new visions and missions of becoming “an international performing arts festival that embodies contemporary perspectives and values of the time”. At the same time, the SPAF aims to become an international performing arts festival that symbiotically exists along with the Korean ecosystem for performing arts.

Diversity, inclusivity and accessibility: The SPAF focuses on the transforming contemporary perspectives of art. Based on the diversity, inclusivity and accessibility of art, it embraces artists’ questions on gender, disability, aging, women and homosexuality.
Art and the climate crisis: The SPAF explores the relationship between art and the environment in the face of the climate crisis. It not only engages in art activities that think for the environment, but also questions various art forms and the roles of art in response to the climate crisis.
Art and technology: The SPAF questions art in today’s technology-driven world and promotes new experiments to connect the innovativeness of science and technology with art. It also views art from the posthumanistic perspective of non-humans and materials and the various perspectives of science and technology.
ocality and Translocality: The SPAF focuses on locality and locationality that are based on the history of Seoul and Korea, society, space, architecture and people. It pursues the translocality of art that communicates with the world based on the unique concept of location. Next mobility: The SPAF contemplates on the international mobility of artworks and artists in the post-pandemic world, its method and changes in its form. It asks new questions on the international meaning and globalism of the contemporary time.

SPAF 2022 Program

1. International

	〈Möbius〉	Compagnie XY	#Dance #Arko Arts Theater #International
	〈Deep are the Woods〉	Eric Arnal-Burtschy	#Audience Participation #Arko Arts Theater #International
	〈Double Bill: indivisible substance, Intensional Particle〉	Hiroaki Umeda	#Dance #Technology #Daehakro Arts Hall#International
	〈Conference of the Absent〉	Rimini Protokoll	#Theater #Audience Participation #Daehakro Arts Theater #International #International Cooperative
	〈Générations - battle of portraits〉	R.A.M.a	#SFAC Theater QUAD #International

2. Korean

	〈Tree Won’t Seek for Shoestore〉	greenpig	#Theater #Korean #Eng Subtitle #Daehakro Arts Theater
	〈Call Time〉	Tiger Power Theater	#Theater #SFAC Theater QUAD #Korean #Eng Subtitle #Barrier Free
	〈play/games/under fragility〉	5Edges	#Dance #Music #Video #Korean #Arko Arts Theater #Audience Participation #International Cooperative # SPAF Premiere/td>
	〈All the Sex I’ve Ever Had〉	Elephants Laugh	#Theater #Arko Arts Theater #International Cooperative #Korean #Eng Subtitle #Barrier Free
	〈Everyone is Ill〉	Yu Jin Gyu	#Dance #Music #Video #Literatur #Haddangse Theater #Korean
	〈Kkokdugaksi〉	Gomool X Goblin Party	#Dance #Music #Video #Theater #Daehakro #Arts #Theater #Korean
	〈Ching Chang Chong Sonata No.1〉	Prisma	#Theater #Dance #Music #Video #Arko Arts Theater #Korean #International Cooperative
	〈PISTE: Eight Moments〉	MODEUN COMPANY	#Dance #Technology #Theater #Daehakro #Arts #Hall #Korean #SPAF Premiere
	〈A Word that Replaces Ten Thousand Words PART 2〉	HADDANGSE	#Theater #Light House #Korean #SPAF Premiere
	〈The Story of Island〉	Creative VaQi	#Theater #Arko #Arts #Theater #Korean #SPAF Premiere #Eng #Subtitle #Barrier Free
	〈Post Music Theater Poem〉	Cho Eunhee	#Music #Theater #Daehakro #Arts #Hall #Korean
	〈Piggies’s Dance〉	OH! MY LIFE MOVEMENT THEATER	#Dance #Video #Daehakro #Arts #Hall #Korean
	〈Moving a Forest Theatre Game 1.0〉	Untitled Road	#Audience #Participation #Daehakro #Arts #Theater #Korean #SPAF Premiere
	〈Breathing Fire〉	RED cat, an OX	#Work-in-progress #SFAC #Theater #QUAD #Korean #SPAF Premiere
	〈(SPAF X KNCDC) Synchronous Senses〉 (work-in-progress)	Kim Bora x Giioii	#Dance #Video #Technology #Arko #Arts #Theater #Korean #SPAF Premiere #Work-in-progress
	〈This is Not a Love Story 〉 (Reading Performance)	Femi Theater	#Work-in-progress #Theater #Cecil #Korean #SPAF Premiere #Barrier Free
	〈Women on Earth 〉 (Try-out)	Theater Company Dolpagu	#Work-in-progress #Theater #Cecil #Korean #SPAF Premiere #Barrier Free

SPAF 2022 Workshop Festival
SPAF Workshop Festival is planned to share creative process of the artists, to question and discuss on critical issues of the contemporary performing arts, and to promote academic exchanges of the realm of art, technology, science and philosophy. The topics of 2022 Workshop Festival are Arts and Technology, Contemporary New Narratives, Next Mobility, Climate Crisis·Post Humanism and New Choreographic Contexts, which are presented in diverse forms – master class, lecture, round table, participatory workshop, etc.