Organization

FORCE

FORCE is a creation group established in 2016 with the purpose of contributing to improving the quality of human life as center of global culture & arts through exchanging with various culture by expanding to the new arts through creation toward the essence of nature & life and imaginative work-process for undiscovered arts. Currently, the organization is putting efforts into re-exanimating infinite possibilities of modern techniques and the unique value of circus through diverse fusion creation.

Partner organization

Phare Ponleu Selpak

Phare Ponleu Selpak – in Khmer, The Brightness of the Arts – is a Cambodian non-profit arts school located in Battambang, offering support to children, youth and the surrounding communities through artistic, educational, social and community outreach and engagement programmes. Over 1000 students are empowered every year through our schools and programmes: performing, visual and applied arts leisure classes, and vocational training aid children and young adults to develop their creativity, communication and concentration skills, and to access a sustainable artistic career whilst preserving and promoting Cambodian arts and culture.

Project

Korea-Cambodia co-production project <Handshake>

2 countries belonging to the same region, but having completely different environments and cultures, South Korea and Cambodia, plan to collaborate through circus arts, serving as a cultural bridge. The goal is to explore and exchange each country's culture through the circus, uniting as one through art, concretizing ongoing exchange networks between both of countries and expanding international networking.

For the production and showcases in next year, field trip(circus and performing arts), workshops, and research will be carried out in both countries. *Sketch of the work <Handshake>

Originally, a handshake symbolizes greetings, gratitude, affection, and reconciliation. It often begins with a lack of trust and doubt about each other, but now it transforms into a symbol of trust and intimacy. When we meet someone, we often greet with a handshake, a gesture to break down the boundaries of the relationship and to share sensory and temperature information about the other person.

It is a symbolic act to confirm trust and intimacy. We feel the different temperatures of the other person through a hand-to-hand connection, and the connection between us and you begins.