2023 SCHEDULE

FESTIVAL & WORKSHOP CENTER

Chocolate Garden
Address: Sombai Road, Salakamreuk Commune, Siem Reap
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DAILY SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, 6 JANUARY 2023

[LAUNCH DAY]

7.00pm at Chocolate Garden

“How Do You Think It Feels?” by Ny&Khun
Launching the week of workshops and festival events is a one-time live performance by Ny&Khun, a duo from New Cambodian Artists, the country’s first all women contemporary dance company. “How Do You Think it Feels?” is the duo’s first cross-discipline body of work, including an on-site visual exhibition accompanied by a specifically choreographed performance.

WEDNESDAY, 11 JANUARY 2023

[PROJECTION EVENINGS]

7.00pm – 8.00pm at Chocolate Garden, Sombai Road

Projection Evening
Join us at the Festival Centre in Chocolate Gardens for the first evening projections programme! Featuring 11 works from the Open Programme, this is an outdoor screening, free to attend and open to the public. (View list)

THURS, 12 JANUARY 2023

[PUBLIC TALK]

11.00am – 12.30pm at Chocolate Garden, Sombai Road

Evocations & Negotiations: Intersections of Art & Anthropology

This sharing session dissects the visual anthropology research project Practicing Bantengan and the various forms it has manifested. Bantengan is a bull trance ritual, culturally practiced in the East of Java, Indonesia. Since 2016, Paik Yin has participated in the Bantengan ritual with fellow contemporary artists in festivals at Australia and Melaka Art and Performance Festival (MAPFest), Malaysia.

Between the interstices of art and anthropology, this lecture centers on collecting and transmitting knowledge through various mediums such as sketches, artists films, exhibition making, making performances and academic writing.

FRIDAY, 13 JANUARY 2023

[PUBLIC TALK]

10.45am – 11.45am at University of Southeast Asia (Meeting Hall) 

‘See the Story’ with Laurens Korteweg, Director of Exhibitions World Press Photo 
Photographs and digital stories can be interpreted in many ways, and every picture and story we display can lead to different understandings. Laurens Korteweg, director for exhibitions from World Press Photo Foundation, will share stories from the exhibition to explore important questions about visual storytelling, such as: What determines the meaning of a picture? How can we discern fact from fiction in an age of misinformation? How can a personal story give us insights into the world?

[PROJECTION EVENINGS]

7.00pm – 8.00pm at Chocolate Garden, Sombai Road

Projection Evening
Featuring 13 works from the Open Programme, this is an outdoor screening, free to attend and open to the public.
(View list.)

SATURDAY, 14 JANUARY 2023

[EXHIBITION EVENT]

7.00pm – 8.00pm at Chocolate Garden, Sombai Road

‘Gatherings’ – a participatory event 
Join Swiss-Vietnamese artist Thi My Lien Nguyen for this unique participatory exhibition event as she collaborates with the audience to create a meal together. The artist’s practice deals with the feeling and understanding of belonging and the sense of home, and is strongly interested in diasporic and post-migrant stories. Her work seeks to create more understanding and representation between communities through inclusive and participatory methods – working with traditions, rituals, folklore, food culture and its social impact.

SUNDAY, 15 JANUARY 2023

[WORKSHOP results]

From 12.00pm at Chocolate Garden, Sombai Road

Works, Projects, Processes  
Over 25 participants from the Angkor Photo Workshops,  Khmer Mentorship workshop, exhibitions-making workshop, and visual processes workshop will display and share their projects in a combination of on-site installations, displays and an evening projection from 7pm.