Introducing: Guest Curator Howl Yuan

As the festival has grown we have tried to find new ways of making the festival accessible and enjoyable for audiences far and wide, but this also includes the artists we support.

For the 2020 festival, prior to Covid-19 we were proud to unveil Howl Yuan as the festival’s first ever Guest Curator Howl Yuan and a programme of works that he had selected under the title ‘Witness’. Howl is not in fact new to the festival, as a contemporary performance maker he has been gracing festival stages since 2016 with his pieces ‘Invisible Guest’, ‘How I can stay in the UK legally’ ‘100 Times to say Goodbye’ and ‘Lucky Ping Pong Dragon Karaoke’. We’re incredible proud to be working with Howl who will now be delivering his ‘Witness programme across both our 2020 online festival and next years 2021 programme. For more information about his work as a creator and performer see https://howlyuan.com/.

Howl Yuan (Cheng-Po Yuan) is a Taiwanese, UK-based performance maker, curator and researcher. He currently undertaking his PhD of Performance Practice at the University of Exeter. His practices spans on cultural identity, mobility, migration, sits and places. His works and projects have been presented in numerous venues and festivals across the UK and Taiwan. He is the member of Interval, an artist collective in Bristol; and Asia-Art-Activism, a cross-disciplinary network investigating ‘Asia’, ‘art’ and ‘activism’ in the UK.

Working closely with the festival team, Howl took his point of view as migrant art worker and current issues around migration, diaspora, foreign student refugee status and formulated a mixed program of performances, workshops, talks in 2020’s festival.