Sector: Arts and Culture
Country location: Australia, Republic of Korea
Grantee: Dr Naomi Ota

Project Description

Ashi-Yu meeting: Live art installation

Welcome to Ashi-yu, relax, take your shoes off and step into the warm water that is calling to you. Do you seek a cure? Comfort? Companionship? A space to just be … to contemplate and to imagine?

We present Ashi-yu Meeting as a provocative, yet gentle intervention into public spaces. In a sense the work is a transmission of the Kinosaki essence, involving a general welcome to all to partake, to participate in a process of a cure that is at once personal, but also shared with others.

Concept and visual installation: Naomi Ota

Concept and sound/music/aural design: Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey

Concept and Performance director: Won Young-Oh (Theater Nottle)

Writer: Kim Hyun-woo (Theater Nottle)

Performer: Lee Euna and Theater Nottle

Producer: Kirsty Ellem (Artistic Merit), Cha Nayong (Theater Nottle)

With thanks to the Seoul Street Art Festival, Theater Nottle, Kinosaki Arts Centre, Creative Victoria and Australia Korea Foundation, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.

Key dates:

Showing, Hooyong Performing Arts Centre, 25 September 2016

Artist talk - community engagement, Hooyong Performing Arts Centre, 25 September 2016 Presentation, Seoul Street Arts Festival, 30 September 2016

Social media: Websites and Facebook pages of Seoul Street ArtsFestival, Visit Korea (tourism), Theatre Nottle & Australian artists

Australia-Korea Foundation grant offer: $10,000.00

Total project value: $60,565.00