CONFERENCE
Cultural Management in the Post-Pandemic World
研討會：後疫情時代的文化管理
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the global cultural and creative industries. Sectors such as performing arts, visual arts, film and media arts, design, to name a few, have been deeply affected by the pandemic, especially if they require in-person gathering and interactions. Over the course of the pandemic, many arts and cultural organizations experienced significant financial losses due to the closure of venues, as well as the cancellation and postponements of many events. This resulted in income loss for creative practitioners and professionals, adding to their stress and anxiety. Governments and related agencies around the world have put in place mechanisms to support cultural and creative organizations and practitioners.
The pandemic has also hastened the debate over digitization/digitalization of the arts. On the one hand, digital platforms opened up new avenues for audience engagement and development. On the other hand, digital divide remains a challenge. Furthermore, some practitioners were unsure whether the shift to digital platforms was temporary or permanent. As we exit the pandemic, we must recognize that the events of the last few years should not be forgotten. If anything, the pandemic has shown the world that the cultural and creative industries, especially the practitioners, are remarkably resilient. There are lessons to be learnt and the way we debate about cultural and creative industries has forever been changed. This conference, Cultural Management in the Post-Pandemic World, seeks to engage scholars and practitioners in meaningful discussions on the new directions of post-pandemic cultural management practices and education, particularly in the Greater Bay Area and the region (East and Southeast Asia).
THEME
Emerging Practices in Cultural Management
Critical Reflections in Cultural Conservation and Transmission
Care Practices in Cultural Management
Practices in Art, Media, and Technologies
SCHEDULE
Day One
Time
Activity
0930hr
Registration and Reception
1000hr
Opening Session
1015hr
Keynote Lecture 1 and Q&A
Moderated by Benny LIM
Theory and Method of the Empowerment of Cultural Industries in Rural Revitalization of China
Prof. XIANG Yong
1120hr
Keynote Lecture 2 and Q&A
Moderated by Benny LIM
Growing in a Post Pandemic World: The Case Study of The TENG Company from Singapore
Dr Samuel WONG
Dr Samuel Wong is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of The TENG Company, a not-for-profit Major Grant Arts Company in Singapore. TENG is one of the largest traditional arts companies in Singapore. He spearheads the company’s Artistic Innovation, Social Impact and Industry Empowerment Divisions and re-invents the possibilities of Chinese music by fusing tradition, innovation and a unique Singaporean identity. Samuel was awarded The Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore Award (2009), The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Singapore Foundation’s Culture Award (2009) and Singapore Institute of Management’s Teaching Excellence Award (2012) for his work in Music and Education. In 2021, Samuel was listed in Prestige Magazine’s “40 under 40” list of Singapore’s most successful, influential and innovative young people1230hr
Lunch
1400hr
Panel 1: Emerging Practices in Cultural Management
Elizabeth de Roza (www.elizabethderoza.com) is an Artist-Scholar and Academic, Interdisciplinary Performance-Maker, Theatre Director, and Actor-movement trainer. She has been making theatre/performances and teaching in higher education for over two decades. Her artistic works range from site-specific social engagement to cross-cultural | disciplinary performances to intense black-box physical and online/digital performances. In 2021, she initiated and co-curated the first Magdalena online festival, Bodies:On:Live
(https://onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/), for women in contemporary theatre and performance. Elizabeth also collaborated with fellow artist Laurie Young and created an intimate-immersive movement audio guide (https://soundcloud.com/nationalgallerysg/sets/closer-audio-guide) for Antony Gormley’s sculptures at the National Gallery of Singapore. Apart from her artistic and teaching roles, Elizabeth is also an active researcher and has published her research in various theatre and performance journals.
The survival of Hong Kong’s small and medium-sized performing arts groups in the post-epidemic period
Cheung Yuk Fan holds a Master of Arts in Cultural Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Arts in Bilingual Studies from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is a part-time lecturer at HKU SPACE Community College. She has over fifteen years of experience as a financial consultant and beauty and make-up instructor. She is the chair of the Gip Percussion Ensemble’s Literary and Visual Arts Development Committee. She has been an art guide for One Month One Art.
Her personal photography work “Renew a new normal” ( 《重新·日常》) was chosen as one of the participating works in the “A Collection of Coeng-ping Images 65.”
Rethinking Theatre Values in the Post-Pandemic China
GONG Yidan graduated from the MACM Progrmame of CUHK in 2016 is currently a PhD student of Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Her research interests are mainly on theatre audience experience, arts management and cultural policy. With her great passion to theatre, she has been worked as a theatre practitioner in Guangzhou and Chengdu for around 8 years during which she undertakes responsibilities of various roles, from producer to marketing planner. She is now the producer and vice-director of Children’s Theatre and Theatre Education Centre at the Sichuan People’s Arts Theatre and also a freelance project planner.
Research Advances in the Post-Pandemic Arts Management Education
Dr Natalia Grincheva is a Program Leader in Arts Management at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne. She is an internationally recognised expert in innovative forms and global trends in contemporary museology, digital diplomacy and international cultural relations. Her professional engagements include her dedicated work for the International Fund for Cultural Diversity at UNESCO (2011) and International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity (2011–2015), her research industry placement at ACMI X creative hub at the Australian Center for the Moving Image (2017–2019) as well as service for the international Cultural Research Network (CRN) (2018–2020).
Analysis of some key words of Art Management: public welfare, non-profit and publicity
Gao Yingang，Professor of Art Management at School of Arts，Director of the Research Center of Public Culture，Shandong University
1540hr
Tea Break
1600hr
Panel 2: Critical Reflections in Cultural Conservation and Transmission
Moderated by Ashley Lee WONG
Building Resilience and Capabilities for Arts and Culture through Innovative Practices
Jervais Choo is the Deputy Director for Organisational Design and Innovation (ODI), and currently heads the Innovation Programme office at the National Heritage Board. The division is responsible for business and digital transformation through creative solutioning to identify and incubate innovative solutions for the heritage sector, and explores new and frontier technologies and works with organisations, companies and agencies to explore the application of digital concierge/AI-chatbot solutions for museum experiences, autonomous robotics/IoT, and explorations in virtual and immersive environments.
Jervais founded the DigiMuse programme in 2017, an initiative aimed at building a vibrant cultural sector that is invested in digital innovation and has held other portfolios in the past decade including Programme Director for the Singapore Night Festival and the Singapore Heritage Festival, and Deputy Director of the National Museum of Singapore.
Menempa Tari Tradisi: Preservation and Transmission of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Traditional Malaysian Dances
Professor at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts since 2016, and Dean of Dance at the National Arts Academy, Malaysia (1998-2015). He has performed/choreographed professionally in multiple genres of dance and theatre since 1981 including the UK National Tour/West End The King and I, Kuala Lumpur Dance Theatre and St. Moritz Gold Band in Malaysia. He is a researcher, author, choreographer, curator and festival director. He held office as Co-Chair of Asian Dance Committee, South Korea; President of MyDance Alliance; SEA Vice President for World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific. He is Founder/Artistic Director of ASK Dance Company (est. 2011).
Nature and Heritage of Death Preservation: Exploring Sustainable Synergies in Post-Pandemic Singapore
Dr David Ocón is an interdisciplinary cultural historian and anthropologist who works on Asian cultural heritage’s intersections with preservation, tourism, digitalisation, nature, gastronomy, and sustainability. He also analyses cultural diplomacy and cooperation in the Asian region, particularly between China, Japan, South Korea and the ASEAN countries.
David has twenty years of experience in the arts, culture, and heritage sectors. As a practitioner, he led departments at organisations such as the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF, Singapore), ENCATC (Belgium), and Cervantes Institute (Beijing, China), where he was the head of culture.
David is currently an Assistant Professor at Singapore Management University’s School of Social Sciences, where he teaches and researches Culture and Heritage Management, Cultural Diplomacy in Asia, Urban Cultural Anthropology, Arts Marketing, and Art, Culture and Society. He is also a visiting faculty at University of Barcelona’s International Cultural Cooperation and Management Postgraduate Programme and has previously worked
David regularly provides strategic advice and support for Kong and James Cook University. cultural organisations worldwide.
YOUNG Wei Ping is an independent researcher and archaeologist with research interests in environmental archaeology, food histories, sustainability, and how natural and cultural systems intersect.
She is currently a Research Assistant for the Singapore Management University, investigating sustainable conservation approaches to death spaces in Asia. As a cultural heritage practitioner, she has supported historical and archaeological work in Singapore through the ISEAS -Yusof Ishak Institute and the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM), and has participated in fieldwork in the Southeast Asian region and abroad.
Open Ends’ as Making Art Public in Singapore
An artist and co-founder of ‘The Artists Company’ (TAC), Adrian’s research centres on art history with a focus on urban, museum and cultural studies. His PhD thesis (2023) at NTU School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) argued for a critical examination of acts of performativity, exhibitions and itinerant art events taking place in public space as ‘operations’ that disrupted and renewed the role of artists in society. Adrian holds adjunct appointments at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of Arts Singapore; and NTU’s School of Humanities where he is course coordinator for ‘Cities, Bodies, Memories, Art, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Singapore’.
1745hr
End of Day One
Day Two
Time
Activity
1300hr
Registration and Reception
1330hr
Panel 3: Care Practices in Cultural Management
Moderated by Benny LIM
The Quest to Build Solidarity Amidst Precarity: Nudging Towards More Caring Conditions for Arts Workers
HOE Su-Fern is an arts researcher, educator and manager based in Singapore. She is currently Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Arts and Culture Management Programme at Singapore Management University. She is also lecturer for the MA in Arts and Cultural Management, with Leuphana University of Luneburg. She has spoken, researched and published on cultural policy, arts management, urban cultural economies, creative placemaking and the conditions of artistic production. She has a wealth of experience in developing, managing and/or coordinating local, regional and global projects in varying formats; all of which advocate for the value of the arts and culture in urban environments.
Arts in Health in Hong Kong
Mok Chiu Yu Augustine is the founder/Chief Executive of the Centre for Community Cultural Development.
He has been a promoter in the application of the arts for different purposes in Hong Kong – arts for education, empowerment and independent living, arts for inclusion and solidarity, arts for preservation of heritage and social change, arts for therapy and health, etc.
He is an internationally known people’s theatre artist as was the first awardee of the ADC Theatre Artist of the Year award.
He himself is a theatre/performance artist having performed in New York, Great Britain, and many Asian countries and he was the Congress co-director of IDEA (International Drama/Theatre and Education Association) in 2007.
His writings particularly those in theatre have appeared in scholarly books and journals.
He was an adjunct professor of the Lingnan University and taught the Master in Cultural Studies programme there on Community Cultural Development and Performance Studies for some years
Ephemeral Dance Career: Cultural Governance and Challenges for Dance Troupes
Dr. MOK Kin Wai Patrick is Assistant Professor of the Cultural and Creative Industries Programme at the Art and Design Department, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Interested in the subjects of history, heritage, cultural policies and cultural-creative economy, he is currently doing research on the topics social and cultural impact of the arts, Chinese martial arts and dance and dancers’ career planning and development. He was commissioned to do the Arts Accessibility Research Project by the Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong (ADAHK); co-authored the books Cheng Yu Tung: A Lifetime of Diligence, Integrity and Dedication (2020) and The Roadmap of Design Strategy for Hong Kong Manufacturing SMEs (2019 and 2020).
Before joining Hang Seng University, he served as consultant and manager in the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKU) for the “Hong Kong Memory Project”, a digital and research project for the preservation of Hong Kong’s historical and cultural heritage. He also serves the art sector as board member of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association, International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
Heritage art conservation without knowledge and myth: Hong Kong’s sterilized development of Cantonese Opera between 2002 and 2023
I developed my career in three academic fields of study; arts administration, cultural management and sociology. My research focuses on cultural institutions studies with two major phenomena: (1) creative industries in modern societies, and (2) power amongst apparatus for cultural democracy. My research in these areas contributes to literatures on cultural policies, cultural economics, organizational structures, cultural identity, and institutional theory. I seek dialogues within the cultural sector and cultural organizations to yield better understandings of Chinese cultural development in the context of global culture.
I am a lecturer at The Community College of The University of Hong Kong (HKUSpace).
1510hr
Tea Break
1530hr
Panel 4: Practices in Art, Media, and Technologies
Elizabeth de Roza (www.elizabethderoza.com) is an Artist-Scholar and Academic, Interdisciplinary Performance-Maker, Theatre Director, and Actor-movement trainer. She has been making theatre/performances and teaching in higher education for over two decades. Her artistic works range from site-specific social engagement to cross-cultural | disciplinary performances to intense black-box physical and online/digital performances. In 2021, she initiated and co-curated the first Magdalena online festival, Bodies:On:Live
(https://onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/), for women in contemporary theatre and performance. Elizabeth also collaborated with fellow artist Laurie Young and created an intimate-immersive movement audio guide (https://soundcloud.com/nationalgallerysg/sets/closer-audio-guide) for Antony Gormley’s sculptures at the National Gallery of Singapore. Apart from her artistic and teaching roles, Elizabeth is also an active researcher and has published her research in various theatre and performance journals.
Smart Jewelry: The Fusion of Science and Art
AN Shucheng An is pursuing his PhD from Taylor’s University in Malaysia, one of the world’s leading universities. His research is supervised by Dr. Pouline Koh and Professor Benny Lim. He has published several articles and a monograph on various topics related to Chinese art, including Chinese contemporary painting, large-scale sculpture, and Chinese religious art. His recent research focuses on the health-related functional design of smart jewelry in the world’s post-pandemic era.
Analysing the Multiple Cover Design in Print Magazines during the New Media Age: A Case Study of Art and Piece in Hong Kong
Leung Cheuk Wing, currently in her second year of pursuing a Master’s degree in Visual Communication Design at the National Taiwan University of Arts, hails from Hong Kong. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Cultural Studies and minoring in Journalism and Communication, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her prior experience in both printed and digital media ignited a profound interest in exploring the design features and future development of printed magazines. Her research now centers on the evolution of printed media and its potential for visual storytelling.
Pei-Hsuan Su, Professor of the Department of Visual Communication Design in the National Taiwan University of Arts; Ph. D. of the School of Visual Arts, the Pennsylvania State University, in 2003. She was honoured in the field of Higher Education and Arts by 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, U. S. A.. Her specialty is to integrate visual arts and culture in associated with innovative technology and design. Written in Latticework of Arts and Its Cultural Representation (2017 ), she served as the author who seeks to be original by managing diverse innovative media and materials, and formulating critiques in contemporary.
Cinema at Stake: Impacts from Platforms, Short Videos, and Beyond
Ruiqing (Alex) MA is an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a cross-media creative producer with over a decade of experience in film and media. His cinematic works have been screened at prestigious international film festivals, including Shanghai, Tokyo, and Busan. As a scholar-practitioner, MA has led various ministry-level research projects and published in leading academic journals. He is a member of the China Film Association and the China Television Artists Association, and serves as the International Collaboration Committee Secretary General at China Cinema Editors Association.
The phenomenon of Marginality: How screendance is situated within the dance ecosystem of Hong Kong?
June Wong received her undergraduate degree in Chinese Literature. Instead of being a teacher or writer as people expected, she has been focusing on developing project management competencies, particularly in the environmental industry. Along with the “save-the-world” journey, she finds that art and culture are as essential as nature to human beings as well as humanity. Following this belief, she started pursuing postgraduate study 2 years ago with a master’s degree in Cultural Management from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and freshly graduated this year.
Theatre Arts and Technology Infusion: An empirical study on ‘Hè Rite of Spring’, Contemporary Chinese Dance for French May
Award winning visual artist, choreographer and curator, Dr. Rochelle Yang is currently Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director of Department of Art and Design at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on visual culture, digital communication, performance studies, branding and creative methods. She served as chair for Art Gallery of SIGGRAPH ASIA Conference, director of ArtMap Media & Art Plus Magazine, regional organizer of World Dance Teleconference CID UNESCO, and curated numerous art exhibitions and charity events. Dr. Yang received her BFA in Film & TV, MA in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University, PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong.
1730hr
Closing Remarks / Sharing
1745hr
End of Day Two (end of conference)
Panel(Online)
Time
Activity
13th October 0930hrs
AN ECOLOGY OF CARE FOR THE ARTS
Elizabeth de Roza (www.elizabethderoza.com) is an Artist-Scholar and Academic, Interdisciplinary Performance-Maker, Theatre Director, and Actor-movement trainer. She has been making theatre/performances and teaching in higher education for over two decades. Her artistic works range from site-specific social engagement to cross-cultural | disciplinary performances to intense black-box physical and online/digital performances. In 2021, she initiated and co-curated the first Magdalena online festival, Bodies:On:Live
(https://onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/), for women in contemporary theatre and performance. Elizabeth also collaborated with fellow artist Laurie Young and created an intimate-immersive movement audio guide (https://soundcloud.com/nationalgallerysg/sets/closer-audio-guide) for Antony Gormley’s sculptures at the National Gallery of Singapore. Apart from her artistic and teaching roles, Elizabeth is also an active researcher and has published her research in various theatre and performance journals.
Speakers
The Homeowners of Koalisyon Pabahay ng Pilipinas Collectivising a System of Mutual Aid and Care through Self-Revelatory Narratives and the Ideation of a community-owned Sustainable Village
Issa Manalo LOPEZ is a Manila-based independent theatremaker, director and instructor at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Her creative works and practice-based research examines women’s narratives on female identity and social history. She directed, “KAPIT: a documentary theatre performance on the survivors of Super typhoon Yolanda”, which she devised with Filipino collaborators to surface stories of resilience and cooperation. As a featured director in the Asian Performing Arts Farm Exhibition 2019 in Tokyo, Japan she collaborated with Asian artists in devising “ASIA/N/ESS/ES”, a work that interrogates the multiplicity of “how asia views Asia”.
Currently, she is the Artistic Director of Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas in UP Diliman.
Onstage/Online – keeping the lights on during and after COVID
Dominic (@domlucien on Instagram) co-owns Monday Show School of Musical Theatre. He has been a director, music director, actor, producer, reviewer, and performing arts coach since 2003. With a BA in performing arts from Singapore, Dom continued training at Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the American Repertory Theatre in Boston, completing his MA in music and then in gender studies while receiving training in musical theatre there. Dom has played lead roles in Angels in America, Constellations, The Weight of Silk on Skin, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and has directed musicals like Avenue Q, Tick Tick Boom, and FAME.
Don’t panic. It’s just a pandemic
Nur Khairiyah Bte Ramli is a London-based Muslim-Malay independent producer from Singapore. She graduated with a Masters in Creative Producing (Distinction) in 2019 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She runs a platform called RUMAH to empower Asian diaspora creatives in the UK. Her work with RUMAH has been supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Metroland Cultures, and Arts Council England. In 2022, she was nominated for the Asian Woman of Achievement by NatWest.
Her recent producing credits include Departure Lounge Festival for In Good Company, Assistant Producer at Complicité and guest curator for Migration Matters Festival in Sheffield.
What Remains of Care?
Dr. Adelina Ong is an independent applied performance researcher who has been working with young people from low-income families in Singapore (2003 to present) and adults living with mental health conditions in London (2012 to present). Her synthetic (AI) applied performance practice is inspired by urban arts (street dance, skateboarding, graffiti, parkour/art du déplacement), placemaking practices and Death Cafes. She has published in Theatre Research International and Research in Drama Education (RiDE). She is currently co-editing Performing Homescapes with Prof. Sally Mackey and RiDE 2056: The Futures of Drama Education and Applied Theatre and Performance.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS
Keynote Speakers
Dr Samuel WONG
Prof. XIANG Yong
Presenters
AN Shucheng
Eirene CHEUNG
Jervais CHOO
GAO Yinggang
GONG Yidan
Joseph GONZALES
Natalia GRINCHEVA
HOE Su Fern
LEUNG Cheuk Wing
Alex MA
Augustine MOK
Patrick MOK
David OCON
SU Pei-Hsuan
Adrian TAN
WONG So Kwan
Rochelle YANG
YOUNG Wei Ping
Isabella YUN
