There are about 25 people in the room at the moment - artists, academics and activists from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, Germany and the UK.
The morning began with participants introducing themselves, and then the organisers - Ray Langenbach, Lee Weng Choy, Paul Rae and Sharaad Kuttan - introduced the structure of the event as a whole, which will work through a series of panels on different aspects of the relationship between the key terms 'performance', 'crisis' and 'rights'.
I may come back to this and flesh it out, but actually, there's quite a dynamic discussion going on around me, and I think it's better to pick up on some of those aspects.
See 'afternoon session 1' in the next topic.
2006-06-09