BOW

Pointe to Point (2007) and original the Bow project (2010) are part of the Asia Europe Foundation’s Artist exchange initiative which aims to empower artists to reflect upon their views of contemporary society through their individual artistic expressions. It is a process based platform for artistic exchange and dialogue through the Arts. The Bow project is a cross cultural collaboration between artists from Asia and Europe who work in Dance, music and film. The BOW Project was born out of our experiences in China and is about exchanging and renewing our ideas about movement from within our own and other cultures. The original project was motivated by notions of bowing; metaphorically, culturally and physically. Initially, each artist offered a ‘bow’ from their culture, perspective or experience which may take any form. The Bow project aims are to: 1. Explore the physicality of the body in life and in arts practices 2. Develop methods for artists to effectively collaborate through a shared language of the body in forms, felt response, intuition & practical reasoning. 3. Share processes, experiences and products with the wider community in live performance, workshops, dialogue and through documentation The BOW project series aims to facilitate a shared experience and understanding through art processes and forms, drawing from the thoughts and feelings that underpin them. The aim is to grow through the ‘lived experience’ at the heart of the arts practice.