AUTHORS
Ratu Selvi Agnesia
A young female theater researcher active in Jakarta.
Glecy Cruz ATIENZA
A Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
AU Sow Yee
A guest writer for the online magazine No Man’s Land; Co-founder of Kuala Lumpur’s Rumah Attap Library and Collective.
BAEK Dae-hyun
A producer and an actor for the works of SHIIM.
Richard BARBER
A theater worker and independent scholar working as the co-director of Free Theatre in Melbourne, Australia and advisor to the Makhampom Theatre Group in Thailand.
Assane Alberto CASSIMO
A coordinator and founding member of Associação Teatro em Casa.
CHUNG Chiao
A playwright, theater director, poet, and the artistic director of Assignment Theatre.
Dindon W.S.
The Director of Teater Kubur.
Muhammad FEBRIANSYAH
A lecturer at School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.
HAN Jia-ling
A history and rural education scholar and activist.
HONG Seung-yi
Currently working at Theater BAKK.
Hsiao-Chuan HSIA
A Professor at the Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies, Shih Hsin University.
KUO Liang-ting
An adjunct lecturer at the Chinese Department of National Chung Cheng University.
LEE Show Shin
An artist from community people’s theater and a family care worker.
LIU Hsin-hung
The main participant of Yuquan Training since 2015.
Adaw Palaf LANGASAN
The founder and director of Langasan Theatre.
WANG Chu-yu
A contemporary artist, performance artist, and curator based in Mainland China.
WANG Mo-lin
A theater director, performance artist and cultural critic Robin WEICHERT (Tokyo).
Robin WEICHERT
A teacher of Hosei University, Tokyo.
WU Sih-Fong
A theater Critic, Associate editor of Performing Arts Forum (Macau).
ZHAO Chuana
A writer, theater maker and curator who creates alternative and socially engaged theater in China. Also, he is the founding member and mastermind of the theater collective Grass Stage since 2005.
EDITORS INTRODUCTION
Qi Li
Qi Li is a Ph.D. student in Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies in National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. She came to Taiwan out of curiosity, then got a journey full of adventures. Her ongoing projects focus on life stories of the small theater practitioners, the technologies of mobility and governance in contemporary conditions, and the political-economic transitions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait over the last half-century. She writes articles and reviews for independent media and research institutions based in different countries. She was the coordinator of “Where the People Are…Workshop on People’s Theater in Inter-Asian Societies” in December 2018.
Zikri Rahman
Zikri Rahman has consistently embarked on collaborations with educational and cultural activist groups in various socio-political projects through Buku Jalanan, a rhizomatic network of street library movement he co-founded in the year 2011. Operating as a loose cultural and knowledge workers movements, it focuses on decentralizing the modes of knowledge production. Other than that, he is also affiliated with Pusat Sejarah Rakyat, independent archival research and documentation focusing on Malaysia and Singapore’s people’s history. With LiteraCity, he initiated a literary and cultural mapping project in the city of Kuala Lumpur. Currently pursuing his postgraduate studies in Social Research and Cultural Studies in Taiwan, Zikri is also a writer, independent researcher, translator, and podcaster for various ephemeral platforms.
Joyce C.H. Liu
Joyce C.H. Liu received her Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature in 1984 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Currently, Dr. Liu is the Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies, and a full-time professor at the International Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and the Director at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her research focuses on geopolitics, biopolitics, border politics, internal coloniality, unequal citizens, epistemic decolonization, and artistic interventions. She has published six books, 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, and chapters and coedited nine books. She is leading two ongoing joint research projects: “Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Inter-Asia Cultural Studies,” awarded by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2018-2022), and “Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens in the Global Context” (2019-2022), awarded by CHCI-Mellon Foundation.
CURATOR OF THE OPENING NIGHT
YAO Lee Chun
Theater director, producer and festival director, film researcher and curator.The director of Body Phase Studio since 2007 and has been as Director of Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre (GLT) since 2008.
PHOTOGRAPHER
HSU Ping
A documentary photographer. Over the past three decades, he has consistently documented the diverse phenomena of the post-Martial Law Taiwan and on/off the stage of modern theaters.
TRANSLATORS
BAEK Jin-sol
A student of master programme of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
Kris CHI
M.A. of National Central University Department of English.
Victor FUNG Tsz Ching
A freelance translator graduated from Department of English, City University of Hong Kong.
LEONG Jie Yu
A Master’s degree in English Language Studies from the University of Malaya.
LIANG Chun-wen
Graduated from Department of English, National Central University.
LO Chun Yat, Timothy
M.A. of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Ting University.
Shu-Chuan LIN
M.A. of National Chung Hsing University Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and freelance translator.
IP Po Yee
M.A. of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
Jonathan S. PARHUSIP
Ph.D. of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
Kin TONG
A translator and researcher on psychoanalysis theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Opening Night
Mapping People’s Theater
PREFACE Make Inquiries among the People: A Kind of On-site Performative Archive
LIN Hsin-I
PREFACE Where Are the People? How Could the People’s Bodies Voice Themselves in the Form of Theatrical Aesthetics?
Joyce C.H. LIU
EDITORIAL NOTES Flowing Histories of People’s Theater in the Inter-Asian Context
Qi LI and Zikri RAHMAN
Part I
Heralds of Resistance: Inter-Asian People’s Theater In the Early Days
PETA’s GOLD: Gaming the Nation, Changing Asia
Glecy C. ATIENZA
Transnational Networks, People’s Theater and Radical Opposition in the New Order Indonesia
Muhammad FEBRIANSYAH
Moving History: Representation of Teater Kubur Performances from the New Order Regime to Post-Reformation in Indonesia
Ratu Selvi Agnesia and Dindon W.S.
Sejarah Yang Bergerak: Representasi Pertunjukan Teater Kubur Dari Orde Baru hingga Pasca Reformasi di Indonesia (Indonesian)
Ratu Selvi Agnesia and Dindon W.S.
A Transformative Theater of Dialogue: The Makhampom Theatre Group’s Negotiation of Thailand’s State of Repression
Richard BARBER
Angura Afterlives: On Sakurai Daizō’s Theory of “Tent Theater”
Robin WEICHERT
Review: Beyond These Words
AU Sow Yee
Part II
Emancipation of Body: The Origin and Transformation of
People’s Theater In Taiwan
People’s Theater in Taiwan: A Flooded History
HAN Jia-ling
The Presence of the Oppressed
WANG Mo-lin
Can Theater Transform the World? Reflections on the People’s Theater in Asia
CHUNG Chiao
Theater and the Worship Ground: Langasan Theatre
Adaw Palaf LANGASAN
Return to the Theater of the Oppressed: Trans-Asia Sisters Theater’s Empowerment, Organizing and Mobilization
Hsiao-Chuan HSIA
Between Acting and Realities: Towards a Self-reflexive Practice of Shigang Mama Theater
LEE Show Shin
Review: Little Theater and the People
WU Sih-Fong
Part III
Outspreads: Practices of Peoples Theater In Our Time
The Background and Activities of Theater Playground SHIIM
BAEK Dae-hyun and HONG Seung-yi
연극놀이터 , 쉼의 설립 배경과 활동 (Korean)
BAEK Dae-hyun and HONG Seung-yi
Grass Stage at the North Gate of Foxconn: from World Factory to the Five-year
Theatrical Practice of Workers’ Theater
ZHAO Chuan
At the Boundaries of Body, Society, and Theater
WANG Chu-yu
Yuquan Training: A Perspective in the Practice of Oz Theatre Company
LIU Hsin-hung
A Self-interview: Of Teatro em Casa and Glimpses of Mozambique’s Theater
Assane CASSIMO
Review: People’s Theater, A Total War Towards the Theater Institutions
KUO Liang-ting
Appendix
Biographies of Editors, Authors and Translators
Introduction to People’s Theater Practitioners
Glossary of English-Chinese/Original Terms