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About Beyond Pressure

'Beyond Pressure' is an independent art organization created to contribute towards the expanding of Myanmar art boundaries. It is initiated and run by local artists who work in their communities to create projects that open up spaces, however small, for self-expression and discourse. As an organization, it operates fluidly, utilizing and forming networks according to necessity. It is therefore an organization close to the ground, highly adaptable, connected and efficient in the restrictive social context of Myanmar.
Our foremost aim is to develop the Myanmar performance art scene by creating a festival where foreign and local artists can exchange ideas through workshops, symposia and performances. There is an emerging performance art scene in Myanmar, which remains relatively unknown since there are few chances for Myanmar artists and artists from other countries to meet. Therefore Beyond Pressure offers an important opportunity for artists to network.
Another aim is to expand Myanmar art boundaries by showing that performance art offers new possibilities and strategies to grapple with ideas that confront and engage with current political, economical and social issues.
We host the festival in relatively public locations to reach out to a broad audience. In a restrictive artistic and political climate, where many artists and organizers work in private settings in order to dare to express themselves freely, we want to show in practice that it is possible in contemporary Myanmar to do outstanding and daring performance art in more public spaces. To imagine life beyond pressure. As its name implies, we aim to go beyond the pressures from within and without that restrict movement and development on a human scale. We truly hope to nature youths and newcomers alike to the possibilities of art as a social force.

Beyond Pressure member are

Moe Satt (Artistic Director/ Visual & Performance Artist)

Thu Rain (Photographer)

Maung Pyin Nyar (Videographer)

Mat Kyawt (Visual Artist)

Moe Thet Han (Writer)

Htoo Lwin Myo (Manager)

Pyi Pyi Thant (Accountant)

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