Episode2
Friday, January 10 – Sunday, January 19, 2025
Episode1
Friday, January 12 – Saturday, January 20, 2024
Welcome Message
Gathering Under the Full Moon at Gunung Padang
Welcome to “Sua TERASIA Episode 2.”
TERASIA: Theatre for Traveling in the Age of Isolation is a collaborative project between Asian artists that launched in 2020 in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Since its inception, artists from Japan, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Vietnam have connected primarily online, creating and showcasing multidisciplinary works in theatre, visual arts, film, and music.
In January 2024, we held “Sua TERASIA Episode 1,” an in-person art festival in Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia. Sua TERASIA is a one-of-a-kind arts festival created in collaboration with people from all walks of life, bringing together diverse human beliefs and views on life and death. TERASIA’s everlasting journey invites us to trust in connections that cannot be seen. As a collective, we continue to explore what humanity has in common at its core, no matter what kind of society we live in.
Even in a deeply divided world, we continue to create spaces for encounters, experiments, reflection, and dialogue. We believe that the accumulation of these actions have the potential to transform realities over time.
In January 2025, “Sua TERASIA Episode 2" will begin in Cianjur, Indonesia. Under the full moon atop Gunung Padang, we will hold a ritual to mark the end of the “Age of Isolation.” This ceremony also signifies the dawn of a new era. What kind of future can we envision from here?
We look forward to meeting you all (=Sua)!
TERASIA
Program: The Three Pillars
We will perform, screen, and exhibit all TERASIA works, both old and new. In addition, the TERASIA artists, who have been involved in site-specific creative practices, will cross-fertilize each of our different creative methods and philosophies, and hold workshops to engage with local participants.
DEATH IS SOMETHING VISUAL
MARKINGS OF THE CARTWHEEL
TEATER KREATOR WORKSHOP
TEATER M
TERASIA EXIBITION
MASKING / UNMASKING : THE JOURNEY IN BETWEEN
TERASIA began at the onset of the pandemic and has constantly evolved since then. How has it affected post-pandemic theatre and art? How can we maintain this international collaborative network? How can we understand the intertwining relationships between art, religion, belief, and ritual in Asia, both in history and in the present day? We will explore these questions with speakers of various backgrounds in an interdisciplinary symposium.
We will perform a ritual that marks the end of “the age of isolation” and heralds a new beginning, gathering at Gunung Padang—a megalithic site which is a place of local worship with a history that still remains shrouded in mystery—on a day when the moon and the sun meet in the sky. As it has always been a project for the pandemic era, TERASIA will also come to the end of its life with this ritual.
Venues
Sua TERASIA Episode 2 will take place in four venues in Cianjur and Gunung Padang.
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TERASIA is a collective of independent artists. In order to make this festival a reality, there is a multitude of expenses we need to cover, such as production, travel, and translation. We’d also like to make all Sua TERASIA programs accessible to everyone, free of charge.
For this reason, we are looking for people who are willing to support our project. We would deeply appreciate any donations, using PayPal or a credit card. Thank you for joining us on our endeavor to create a new ecosystem!