Sigrid Gareis (Berlin)
After studying Anthropology, Sigrid Gareis built up the departments of performing arts and international cultural work at Siemens Arts Program in Munich. She was co-founder of dance and theater festivals in Moscow, Munich, Nuremberg and Greifswald. From 2000 to 2009 she was founding director of Tanzquartier Wien, from 2005 to 2007 founding president of the European Dance House Network (EDN) and from 2011 to 2014 founding director of the Academy of the Art of the World in Cologne. She is teaching and lecturing on curating contemporary dance and theatre at universities and art schools in Vienna, Munich, Salzburg, Gießen, and Leipzig and was reviewer for the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Amsterdam School of the Arts. She is curator of various projects and events and member of numerous juries. Various book publications.

Tilmann Broszat (Munich)
is the artistic and managing director of the biannual festival SPIELART in Munich, which he founded in 1995. In this function he initiated several transnational network projects like for example theatre/festivals in transition. He also is the managing director and producer of two festivals of the City of Munich: The MÜNCHENER BIENNALE - Festival for Contemporary Music Theatre (since 1988) and the international Festival DANCE (since 1998). He was the managing director of the Festival THEATER DER WELT in Munich in 1993 and worked as producer and co-owner of ART BUREAU Munich from 1986 to 1993 in international theatre productions and co-productions. He studied sociology (diploma), social psychology and philosophy in Munich and Aix-en-Provence.

Johannes Ebert (Munich)
is manager general of Goethe Institut

André Lepecki (New York | Rio de Janeiro)
is Associate Professor at the New York University and Guest Professor at DOCH - Stockholm University of the Arts. He is a writer, independent curator, and dramaturg. He was 2008 and 2009 chief curator of the festival IN TRANSIT at Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Berlin; he was co-curator of the archive Dance and Visual Arts since 1960s for the exhibition MOVE:choreographing you, Hayward Gallery (2010). AICA Award for Best Performance for co-curating and directing the re-doing of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (2006). He curated the lecture series Points of Convergence: performance and visual arts and the series Off-Hinge / Of Center: alternative histories for performance for MoMA-W (2014 and 2015). He is the editor of the anthologies Dance (2012), Planes of Composition: dance, theory and the global (2009 with Jenn Joy), The Senses in Performance (2007 with Sally Banes), Of the Presence of the Body (2004). His book Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of movement (2006) is translated in 10 languages.

Florian Malzacher (Berlin)
is curator and artistic director of Impulse Festival

Ong Keng Sen (Singarpore)
is the festival director of the new Singapore International Festival of Arts. He is a performance director who has actively contributed to the evolution and the subsequent transglobalization of the Asian aesthetic in contemporary arts. He completed his postgraduate studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and he also holds a law degree. His artworks have been presented throughout the world. Ong was artistic director of TheatreWorks, where he created the renowned Flying Circus Project. He mentors emerging artists and founded the Arts Network Asia. A Fulbright scholar, Ong is the first Singaporean artist to have received both the Young Artist Award (1992) and the Cultural Medallion Award (2003). He directed the In-Transit Festival in Berlin from 2001-2003. He has been serving on the Prince Claus Foundation Jury for the last three years. He was awarded the prestigious Fukuoka Asian Arts and Culture Prize 2010.

Rolf Abderhalden (Bogotá)
is a Swiss-Colombian trans-disciplinary artist and Arts professor at the National University of Colombia. He studied Art-Therapy in the Ecole de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales et Pédagogiques in Lausanne and Theatre in the International Theatre School of Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Master of Visual Arts of the National University of Colombia. PhD in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts, University of Paris 8. He has founded the Interdisciplinary Master of Theatre and Live Arts of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. Co-founder and co-director, along with Heidi Abderhalden, of Mapa Teatro-Lab of artists where both are curating the Project »Experimenta/sur«, a transdisciplinary platform for expanded dramaturgies and Live arts in Latin America. His work moves across theatre, performance, and visual arts, and is concerned with collective memory and performative practices in social contexts as experiments on ›living archives‹.

Elvira Dyangani Ose (London)
is a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths and curator of the current edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. She is also member of the Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada. Dyangani Ose has worked as a curator at Tate Modern, the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. She has served as Artistic Director of Rencontres Picha, Lubumbashi Biennial (2013) and Guest Curator of the triennial SUD, Salon Urbain de Douala (2010). Main curatorial projects include: IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: A VISIONARY MODERNIST (2013), ACROSS THE BOARD (2012–2014), CARRIE MAE WEEMS: SOCIAL STUDIES (2010), ARTE INVISIBLE (2009, 2010), and OLVIDA QUIEN SOY/ERASE ME FROM WHO I AM (2006). Dyangani Ose is completing her PhD at Cornell University, New York.

Gero Tögl (Munich)
is member of the scientific staff at the Institute for Theatre Studies at LMU

Alhena Katsof (Tel Aviv)
Alhena Katsof, curator and author in New York, has been the director of strategy and protocol for Public Movement since 2011. Her book (as co-author) SOLUTION 263: DOUBLE AGENT was published as part of the Solution Series by Sternberg Press. Together with Dana Yahalomi, the director of Public Movement, Katsof produced the performances DEBRIEFING SESSION I and DEBRIEFING SESSION II. She performed at the Freie Universität Berlin; IASPIS in Stockholm; and SITAC XI in Mexico City. Katsof organized exhibitions and performances in New York with White Columns; Andrew Kreps Gallery; Regina Rex; Leo Koenig Inc.; and Lucie Fontaine. In 2014 she curated »Towards the Unknown«, a traveling exhibition with drawings by the musician and painter Yusef Lateef. Alhena Katsof teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) at Annandale-on-Hudson, and she gives lectures at the Center for Experimental Lectures.

Akira Takayama (Tokyo)
Born in 1969, Akira Takayama founded Port B in 2002. Takayama develops projects that take theatre outside its existing frameworks and connects collaboratively with other media. He works to update the »architecture of theatre« by expanding the conventions of theatre and the audience in society and the urban space. His audience-centered work is an attempt to create a theatre beyond the physical theatre space as a new social platform and function. In recent years he has been interacting with a wide range of fields, including tourism, urban planning, art, literature and photography, using theatrical ideas to cultivate new possibilities across a variety of media and genre.

Ana Zirner (Munich)
is a Munich based theatre- and film director and cultural manager. In 2012 she co-founded the performing arts collective satellit produktion to create dance- and theatre projects based on documented material on political and social topics. The project SPRING AND HOPE received the Folkwang Award of Performing Arts in 2012, and the production FREI WILLIG ARBEITEN (»free will working«) received the Kurt Meisel Award at Residenztheater in 2015. The new project "HIATUS - A PROJECT ON BEGGARS AND PASSERS-BY will premiere at SPIELART Festival 2015. As a cultural manager Ana Zirner has worked at the artistic direction of Münchner Kammerspiele in 2014 and she was part of the artistic direction at the independent theatre PATHOS in Munich in 2013. She is an active member of various international networks and an alumni of the EFA Atelier for Young Festival Managers 2015 in Beirut. Both as an artist and a cultural manager, international exchange and cooperation is a main focus in Ana Zirner's work.

Katja Schneider (Munich)
is member of the scientific staff and MA study coordinator at the Institute for Theatre Studies at LMU

Rolf Abderhalden (Bogotá)
is a Swiss-Colombian trans-disciplinary artist and Arts professor at the National University of Colombia. He studied Art-Therapy in the Ecole de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales et Pédagogiques in Lausanne and Theatre in the International Theatre School of Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Master of Visual Arts of the National University of Colombia. PhD in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts, University of Paris 8. He has founded the Interdisciplinary Master of Theatre and Live Arts of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. Co-founder and co-director, along with Heidi Abderhalden, of Mapa Teatro-Lab of artists where both are curating the Project EXPERIMENTA/SUR, a transdisciplinary platform for expanded dramaturgies and Live arts in Latin America. His work moves across theatre, performance, and visual arts, and is concerned with collective memory and performative practices in social contexts as experiments on ›living archives‹.

Jelili Atiku (Lagos)
Born in 1968 in Ejigbo, Nigeria, Jelili Atiku is a Nigerian multimedia artist with political concerns for human rights and justice. His artistic work deals with the psychosocial and emotional effects of traumatic events such as violence, war, poverty, corruption, and climate change. He was trained at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and the University of Lagos, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (fine arts) degree and a Master of Arts (visual arts) degree. He is the project leader of ArtAfrica Nigeria, the chief coordinator of Advocate for Human Rights Through Art (AHRA), and the artistic director of AFiRIperFOMA – a collective of performance artists in Africa. Jelili is participating in numerous performances/exhibitions/talks in Africa, Asia and Europe. He is presently teaching sculpture at the department of art and industrial design at Lagos State Polytechnic.

Anja Dirks (Fribourg)
Born in 1970, Anja Dirks is the director of Belluard Festival in Fribourg (CH). From 2009 to 2014 she was the artistic director of Festival Theaterformen in Braunschweig and Hanover. At Wiener Festwochen she curated the program section forum festwochen in 2008. She was Matthias Lilienthal`s assistant for the 2002 edition of Theater der Welt and then worked as a programmer, first at FFT Düsseldorf and from 2004 to 2007 at Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich. Between 1989 and 1999 she worked in Berlin, amongst others as an assistant at Schiller Theater, Volksbühne and in the independent scene. Anja Dirks studied directing at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst »Ernst Busch«.

Ahmed El Attar (Cairo)
is an Egyptian independent theatre director, translator, playwright and cultural manager. He is founder and General Manager of Studio Emad Eddin Foundation a unique project, offering rehearsals and training spaces to independent artists. El Attar is also the founder and the artistic director of Orient Productions, the Temple Independent Theatre Company and the D-CAF (Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival). He is also the artistic director of the Falaki theatre in Cairo. His theatre work has been performed in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Sweden, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, the United Kingdom and the UAE. El Attar has been chosen by the Arabic edition of Newsweek (26/4/2005) as one of 42 personalities who influence change in the Arab world. Among other awards El Attar has received the pioneers of Egypt award in November 2013 from Synergos Foundation (USA).

Judy Hussie-Taylor (New York)
is curator and Executive Director of Danspace Project (NYC) and co-founder, advisor and faculty of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University. She is the former Director of the Colorado Dance Festival (CDF), she has also served as Artistic Director for Performance Programs at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and Deputy Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. From 2000 – 2004 she taught in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado-Boulder and served as faculty, committee member and interim director of the Department’s Visiting Artist Program. She was the curator of the acclaimed PLATFORM 2012: JUDSON NOW celebrating the 50th anniversary of Judson Dance Theater. In 2013 she was featured as one of New York’s »Movers and Shapers« by the New York Times (2013). Iin 2014 she was conferred with a Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Ong Keng Sen (Singapore)
is the festival director of the new Singapore International Festival of Arts. He is a performance director who has actively contributed to the evolution and the subsequent transglobalization of the Asian aesthetic in contemporary arts. He completed his postgraduate studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and he also holds a law degree. His artworks have been presented throughout the world. Ong was artistic director of TheatreWorks, where he created the renowned Flying Circus Project. He mentors emerging artists and founded the Arts Network Asia. A Fulbright scholar, Ong is the first Singaporean artist to have received both the Young Artist Award (1992) and the Cultural Medallion Award (2003). He directed the In-Transit Festival in Berlin from 2001-2003. He has been serving on the Prince Claus Foundation Jury for the last three years. He was awarded the prestigious Fukuoka Asian Arts and Culture Prize 2010.

Suely Rolnik (São Paulo)
Brazilian, is an analyst of the politics of desire, through art and cultural critic, curatorship, writing and psychoanalytical practices. She is Full Professor at the Catholic University of São Paulo and had been guest Professor at MacBa (Barcelona, 2008-2015). She graduated in Sociology and Philosophy (Université de Paris 8), and in Clinical Human Sciences (Université de Paris 7). She obtained master and doctoral degrees in Clinical Human Sciences (Université de Paris 7) and a PHD in Social Psychology (PUC-SP). Among her books: GEOPOLITICS OF PIMPING. FOUR ESSAYS ON THE PATHOLOGY OF THE PRESENT (2015), ANTHROPOPHAGIE ZOMBIE (2012); ARCHIVE MANIA SERIE 100 NOTES – 100 THOUGHTS NO. 022 (Documenta 13, 2011) and with Félix Guattari, MICROPOLÍTICA. CARTOGRAFIAS DO DESEJO (1986), published in eight countries. She created the ARCHIVE FOR A WORK-EVENT. ACTIVATING THE BODY MEMORY OF LYGIA CLARK'S ARTISTIC PROPOSITIONS (65 film interviews and a booklet), 2011.

Thomas Sellar (New Haven | Brooklyn)
is Professor Adjunct at the Yale University & Editor of the magazine THEATER

Jay Pather (Cape Town)
is an associate professor at the University of Cape Town, director of the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), and artistic director of Siwela Sonke Dance. Recent publications include articles in New Territories: Theatre, Drama, and Performance in Post-apartheid South Africa, edited by Marc Meaufort; CHANGING METROPOLIS II, edited by Marie Polli; ROGUE URBANISM, edited by Edgar Pieterse and Abdul Malik Simone; and PERFORMING CITIES, edited by Nicholas Whybrow. Jay is a curator of the Infecting the City Public Art Festivals, and The GIPCA Live Art Festivals, and he serves as a juror for the International Award for Public Art and on the board of the National Arts Festival of South Africa. Recent art works include: BODY OF EVIDENCE in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Den Haag; BLIND SPOT for the Metropolis Biennale, Copenhagen; QAPHELA CAESAR; and RITE, a re-imagining of Stravinsky's LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS.

Evelyn Annuß (Berlin)
is theatre scholar and curator; currently guest professor at the Institute for Theatre Studies at LMU

Jelili Atiku (Lagos)
Born in 1968 in Ejigbo, Nigeria, Jelili Atiku is a Nigerian multimedia artist with political concerns for human rights and justice. His artistic work deals with the psychosocial and emotional effects of traumatic events such as violence, war, poverty, corruption, and climate change. He was trained at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and the University of Lagos, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (fine arts) degree and a Master of Arts (visual arts) degree. He is the project leader of ArtAfrica Nigeria, the chief coordinator of Advocate for Human Rights Through Art (AHRA), and the artistic director of AFiRIperFOMA – a collective of performance artists in Africa. Jelili is participating in numerous performances/exhibitions/talks in Africa, Asia and Europe. He is presently teaching sculpture at the department of art and industrial design at Lagos State Polytechnic.

Judy Hussie-Taylor (New York)
is curator and Executive Director of Danspace Project (NYC) and co-founder, advisor and faculty of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University. She is the former Director of the Colorado Dance Festival (CDF), she has also served as Artistic Director for Performance Programs at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and Deputy Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. From 2000 – 2004 she taught in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado-Boulder and served as faculty, committee member and interim director of the Department’s Visiting Artist Program. She was the curator of the acclaimed PLATFORM 2012: JUDSON NOW celebrating the 50th anniversary of Judson Dance Theater. In 2013 she was featured as one of New York’s »Movers and Shapers« by the New York Times (2013). Iin 2014 she was conferred with a Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Adrian Heathfield (London)
is a writer and curator working across the scenes of live art, performance, and dance. He is the author of OUT OF NOW, a monograph on the artist Tehching Hsieh, and the editor of PERFORM, REPEAT, RECORD AND LIVE: ART AND PERFORMANCE. He co-curated LIVE CULTURE (Tate Modern 2003); PERFORMANCE MATTERS (2009-2014); and numerous durational events in European cities over the last ten years. He is a Marie Curie International Fellow at Columbia University, New York, and a professor of performance and visual culture at the University of Roehampton, London.

Wenzel Bilger (New York)
is the program director of Goethe Institut New York

Anja Dirks (Fribourg)
Born in 1970, Anja Dirks is the director of Belluard Festival in Fribourg (CH). From 2009 to 2014 she was the artistic director of Festival Theaterformen in Braunschweig and Hanover. At Wiener Festwochen she curated the program section forum festwochen in 2008. She was Matthias Lilienthal`s assistant for the 2002 edition of Theater der Welt and then worked as a programmer, first at FFT Düsseldorf and from 2004 to 2007 at Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich. Between 1989 and 1999 she worked in Berlin, amongst others as an assistant at Schiller Theater, Volksbühne and in the independent scene. Anja Dirks studied directing at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst »Ernst Busch«.

Ahmed El Attar (Cairo)
is an Egyptian independent theatre director, translator, playwright and cultural manager. He is founder and General Manager of Studio Emad Eddin Foundation a unique project, offering rehearsals and training spaces to independent artists. El Attar is also the founder and the artistic director of Orient Productions, the Temple Independent Theatre Company and the D-CAF (Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival). He is also the artistic director of the Falaki theatre in Cairo. His theatre work has been performed in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Sweden, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, the United Kingdom and the UAE. El Attar has been chosen by the Arabic edition of Newsweek (26/4/2005) as one of 42 personalities who influence change in the Arab world. Among other awards El Attar has received the pioneers of Egypt award in November 2013 from Synergos Foundation (USA).

Sigrid Gareis (Berlin)
After studying Anthropology, Sigrid Gareis built up the departments of performing arts and international cultural work at Siemens Arts Program in Munich. She was co-founder of dance and theater festivals in Moscow, Munich, Nuremberg and Greifswald. From 2000 to 2009 she was founding director of Tanzquartier Wien, from 2005 to 2007 founding president of the European Dance House Network (EDN) and from 2011 to 2014 founding director of the Academy of the Art of the World in Cologne. She is teaching and lecturing on curating contemporary dance and theatre at universities and art schools in Vienna, Munich, Salzburg, Gießen, and Leipzig and was reviewer for the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Amsterdam School of the Arts. She is curator of various projects and events and member of numerous juries. Various book publications.

Tilmann Broszat (Munich)
is the artistic and managing director of the biannual festival SPIELART in Munich, which he founded in 1995. In this function he initiated several transnational network projects like for example theatre/festivals in transition. He also is the managing director and producer of two festivals of the City of Munich: The MÜNCHENER BIENNALE - Festival for Contemporary Music Theatre (since 1988) and the international Festival DANCE (since 1998). He was the managing director of the Festival THEATER DER WELT in Munich in 1993 and worked as producer and co-owner of ART BUREAU Munich from 1986 to 1993 in international theatre productions and co-productions. He studied sociology (diploma), social psychology and philosophy in Munich and Aix-en-Provence.

Rolf Abderhalden (Bogotá)
is a Swiss-Colombian trans-disciplinary artist and Arts professor at the National University of Colombia. He studied Art-Therapy in the Ecole de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales et Pédagogiques in Lausanne and Theatre in the International Theatre School of Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Master of Visual Arts of the National University of Colombia. PhD in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts, University of Paris 8. He has founded the Interdisciplinary Master of Theatre and Live Arts of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. Co-founder and co-director, along with Heidi Abderhalden, of Mapa Teatro-Lab of artists where both are curating the Project EXPERIMENTA/SUR, a transdisciplinary platform for expanded dramaturgies and Live arts in Latin America. His work moves across theatre, performance, and visual arts, and is concerned with collective memory and performative practices in social contexts as experiments on ›living archives‹.

Jelili Atiku (Lagos)
Born in 1968 in Ejigbo, Nigeria, Jelili Atiku is a Nigerian multimedia artist with political concerns for human rights and justice. His artistic work deals with the psychosocial and emotional effects of traumatic events such as violence, war, poverty, corruption, and climate change. He was trained at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and the University of Lagos, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (fine arts) degree and a Master of Arts (visual arts) degree. He is the project leader of ArtAfrica Nigeria, the chief coordinator of Advocate for Human Rights Through Art (AHRA), and the artistic director of AFiRIperFOMA – a collective of performance artists in Africa. Jelili is participating in numerous performances/exhibitions/talks in Africa, Asia and Europe. He is presently teaching sculpture at the department of art and industrial design at Lagos State Polytechnic.

Anja Dirks (Fribourg)
Born in 1970, Anja Dirks is the director of Belluard Festival in Fribourg (CH). From 2009 to 2014 she was the artistic director of Festival Theaterformen in Braunschweig and Hanover. At Wiener Festwochen she curated the program section forum festwochen in 2008. She was Matthias Lilienthal`s assistant for the 2002 edition of Theater der Welt and then worked as a programmer, first at FFT Düsseldorf and from 2004 to 2007 at Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich. Between 1989 and 1999 she worked in Berlin, amongst others as an assistant at Schiller Theater, Volksbühne and in the independent scene. Anja Dirks studied directing at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst »Ernst Busch«.

Ahmed El Attar (Cairo)
is an Egyptian independent theatre director, translator, playwright and cultural manager. He is founder and General Manager of Studio Emad Eddin Foundation a unique project, offering rehearsals and training spaces to independent artists. El Attar is also the founder and the artistic director of Orient Productions, the Temple Independent Theatre Company and the D-CAF (Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival). He is also the artistic director of the Falaki theatre in Cairo. His theatre work has been performed in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Sweden, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, the United Kingdom and the UAE. El Attar has been chosen by the Arabic edition of Newsweek (26/4/2005) as one of 42 personalities who influence change in the Arab world. Among other awards El Attar has received the pioneers of Egypt award in November 2013 from Synergos Foundation (USA).

Judy Hussie-Taylor (New York)
is curator and Executive Director of Danspace Project (NYC) and co-founder, advisor and faculty of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University. She is the former Director of the Colorado Dance Festival (CDF), she has also served as Artistic Director for Performance Programs at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and Deputy Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. From 2000 – 2004 she taught in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado-Boulder and served as faculty, committee member and interim director of the Department’s Visiting Artist Program. She was the curator of the acclaimed PLATFORM 2012: JUDSON NOW celebrating the 50th anniversary of Judson Dance Theater. In 2013 she was featured as one of New York’s »Movers and Shapers« by the New York Times (2013). Iin 2014 she was conferred with a Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Ong Keng Sen (Singapore)
is the festival director of the new Singapore International Festival of Arts. He is a performance director who has actively contributed to the evolution and the subsequent transglobalization of the Asian aesthetic in contemporary arts. He completed his postgraduate studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and he also holds a law degree. His artworks have been presented throughout the world. Ong was artistic director of TheatreWorks, where he created the renowned Flying Circus Project. He mentors emerging artists and founded the Arts Network Asia. A Fulbright scholar, Ong is the first Singaporean artist to have received both the Young Artist Award (1992) and the Cultural Medallion Award (2003). He directed the In-Transit Festival in Berlin from 2001-2003. He has been serving on the Prince Claus Foundation Jury for the last three years. He was awarded the prestigious Fukuoka Asian Arts and Culture Prize 2010.