(08/23/2009)

Open group

Moderator:Safak Uysal

ACPAI – Association of the Contemporary Performing Arts Initiative

ACPAI is a civil and non-profit organization that aims at bringing about a transformative movement in the field of contemporary performing arts in Turkey by bringing together independent artists, theoreticians, instructors, cultural managers and academicians working in the field. The initiative was established in June 2005, with the aim of identifying, planning and implementing projects that will initiate a mobilization as such. It gained corporate status in August 2007 by establishing its own association.

Organizing regular meetings and activities since 2005, the Association aims in the long-run at: constructing an effective and sustainable space of creation for itself and its audience; creating an appropriate production environment for works that search for new means of expression and get in touch with its audience; developing and maintaining a new and diversified audience; investigating the contemporary dynamics of the time; being visible and transforming visibility into a cultural aspect; taking part in processes of cultural policy formulation and implementation; and in this way contributing to the development of civil society in general.

ACPAI defines contemporary performing arts with reference to those original and interdisciplinary works that seek alternative means of expression and question existing disciplinary boundaries.

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