Teater Garasi have been conducting a series of preliminary researches in 2017 that was held in Madura (East Java) and Flores (East Nusa Tenggara), Indonesia. During the period, funded by Ford Foundation, we were working with several artistic communities in Madura and Flores as the first few Asian sites of the project. Looking at the world from these two sites, on the farthest outskirt of emerging Asian cities, is also looking at the constant arrival of the new kinds of fear, the new sources of anxieties.
Mirroring Peer Gynt, this preliminary research is our travel outward. Morocco could be Madura, a mostly Muslim populated small island in the east of Java, and Egypt might be Flores, a predominantly Catholic populated island in the eastern part of Indonesia. Religions navigate the global world as much as a religious believer/non-believer, as much as Peer Gynt. But fears and anxiety had previously arrived in Flores and Madura, shaping their schools, churches and mosques. How should we, as Peer Gynt(s), place ourselves in the tension?