IsLAND BAR

2026
EDITION

IsLandBar is a unique performance project that blends the art of cocktail-making with personal storytelling. Set in various cafés across Utrecht, migrant artists each host their own “island.” Here, they serve a signature cocktail that acts as a personal concoction of their history, family, and cultural identity. 

The project originated as an open-source experiment by the Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) and has since been developed and presented internationally. This edition was developed through the Asia-Europe Cultural Festival Residency Programme, and focuses on stories of displacement. Working alongside a cocktail master, the artists have developed drinks — both alcoholic and non-alcoholic — that symbolize their lived experiences. 

As an audience member, you are invited to take a seat at the bar, taste, and listen. The informal café setting is transformed into a space for intimacy and conversation. IsLandBar is an invitation to share a drink and rethink the narratives that shape our social and cultural identities.

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Admission:  €15 including cocktail

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Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre
IsLand Bar © Taipei Performing Arts Centre

Artistic Direction: orangcosong
Artists & Performers: Chikara Fujiwara, Eddie Hara, Eva Lou, Minori Sumiyoshiyama, Pepe Dayaw, Rino Daidoji, Scarlet Yu, Serene Hui, Tam Thi Pham
Drinks Consultant: Gonçalo de Sousa Monteiro (Buck & Breck, Berlin / DE)
Producers: Iris Chan & Stéphane Noël (Materialise / HK)
Thanks to: Yoveza Wong
Production Credits:
IsLand Bar (2026) is a coproduction of SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht / NL), orangcosong (Yokohama / JP) and Materialise (Hong Kong)
The project is part of the Asia-Europe Cultural Festival (AECFest) Residency Programme 2025, organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).
The project is supported by The Saison Foundation (Tokyo / JP)
IsLand Bar is an open-source project by Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC), first initiated as an experiment in ADAM (Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance) 2017, and commissioned in Taipei Arts Festival 2018 led by principal artists Scarlet Yu (HK/DE), Chikara Fujiwara (JP) and Lee Ming-Chen (TW)

Chikara Fujiwara (orangcosong) is an artist based in Yokohama, Japan. Since 2014, he has initiated and developed international projects, such as “Engeki Quest”, a walk-based tour project that has been realized in numerous cities around the world, and “IsLand Bar” with multinational artists at ADAM artist lab in Taipei. He was a Saison Fellow of The Saison Foundation (2017–20) and a Cultural Envoy of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan (2017).
Chikara Fujiwara (orangcosong) is an artist based in Yokohama, Japan. Since 2014, he has initiated and developed international projects, such as “Engeki Quest”, a walk-based tour project that has been realized in numerous cities around the world, and “IsLand Bar” with multinational artists at ADAM artist lab in Taipei. He was a Saison Fellow of The Saison Foundation (2017–20) and a Cultural Envoy of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan (2017).
Minori Sumiyoshiyama (orangcosong) works as a transdisciplinary artist. Since 2017, she has presented and initiated several international projects, including “Hitsudankai – From now/here, Silence”, in cities across Asia, Africa, and Europe. and “2x2 WindowS”, an online international project with multimedia composer Tam Thi Pham. In recent years, her practice has extended across both analog and digital realms. © Takahashi Kenji, Photo courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space
Minori Sumiyoshiyama (orangcosong) works as a transdisciplinary artist. Since 2017, she has presented and initiated several international projects, including “Hitsudankai – From now/here, Silence”, in cities across Asia, Africa, and Europe. and “2x2 WindowS”, an online international project with multimedia composer Tam Thi Pham. In recent years, her practice has extended across both analog and digital realms. © Takahashi Kenji, Photo courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space
Born in Salatiga, Java, Indonesia, Eddie Hara currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Living on and off in Europe and in Indonesia, Eddie Hara describes himself as a kind of a marginal artist who is unafraid to give his opinions on political problems, gender and racial issues, environmental problems, and the prevalent poverty and the resulting violence in our society. Despite this serious aspect in his art, his canvases which are populated by mutant women and strange animals display a solid dose of irony and humour.
Born in Salatiga, Java, Indonesia, Eddie Hara currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Living on and off in Europe and in Indonesia, Eddie Hara describes himself as a kind of a marginal artist who is unafraid to give his opinions on political problems, gender and racial issues, environmental problems, and the prevalent poverty and the resulting violence in our society. Despite this serious aspect in his art, his canvases which are populated by mutant women and strange animals display a solid dose of irony and humour.
Eva Lou is an artist, a dramaturg and a creative facilitator, currently based in Amsterdam and Shanghai. She works through performance-making, workshops, social practices and engages with curatorial models. Her works often arise from the mundane of everyday life and she uses art as process and searches for relationality and ways of being together. Co-creation and collaboration is vital to her artistic beliefs. Eva is a member of _ao_ao_ing ensemble, a performance collective based in Shanghai and beyond.
Eva Lou is an artist, a dramaturg and a creative facilitator, currently based in Amsterdam and Shanghai. She works through performance-making, workshops, social practices and engages with curatorial models. Her works often arise from the mundane of everyday life and she uses art as process and searches for relationality and ways of being together. Co-creation and collaboration is vital to her artistic beliefs. Eva is a member of _ao_ao_ing ensemble, a performance collective based in Shanghai and beyond.
Pepe Dayaw is a polymathic artist, designer and producer working in the fields of performance, textile & costumes and transmedia publishing. Since moving to Europe in 2010, Dayaw has been creating situations and materialities of taste, movement and tactility that depart from a synthesis of a Filipino migrant fiction. He draws aesthetic and philosophic inspiration from their migrant autoethnography, renewing and remixing the contemporary while paying homage to their tropical island heritage. © Jona Castaneda
Pepe Dayaw is a polymathic artist, designer and producer working in the fields of performance, textile & costumes and transmedia publishing. Since moving to Europe in 2010, Dayaw has been creating situations and materialities of taste, movement and tactility that depart from a synthesis of a Filipino migrant fiction. He draws aesthetic and philosophic inspiration from their migrant autoethnography, renewing and remixing the contemporary while paying homage to their tropical island heritage. © Jona Castaneda
Scarlet Yu Mei is a Hong Kong–born Thai-Chinese artist whose practice moves through the intersections of choreography, performance, and relational ecologies. Her works, presented internationally from China to Mexico and more, create choreographic situations that reveal how belonging, estrangement, and diasporic inheritance are negotiated through everyday gestures and embodied attention.
Scarlet Yu Mei is a Hong Kong–born Thai-Chinese artist whose practice moves through the intersections of choreography, performance, and relational ecologies. Her works, presented internationally from China to Mexico and more, create choreographic situations that reveal how belonging, estrangement, and diasporic inheritance are negotiated through everyday gestures and embodied attention.
Serene Hui is an artist currently based in the Netherlands and Hong Kong. Her practice is research-focused and multi-faceted, engaging primarily with installation, audio and live works, printmaking and text. Serene's work is involved in a discursive, artistic and political exploration of her own context, using the geographical distance from personal lived experiences to investigate the wider socio-political impact of how meaning is made and who has access to making it.
Serene Hui is an artist currently based in the Netherlands and Hong Kong. Her practice is research-focused and multi-faceted, engaging primarily with installation, audio and live works, printmaking and text. Serene's work is involved in a discursive, artistic and political exploration of her own context, using the geographical distance from personal lived experiences to investigate the wider socio-political impact of how meaning is made and who has access to making it.
Born in Tokyo, Rino Daidoji is an actor/performer and artist based in Italy and Japan. She is a co-founding member of Tokyo-based experimental theater company FAIFAI, and has appeared in a diverse range of domestic and international productions with the company. She began venturing into performing solo since 2014, and in 2015, moved to Cesena in northern Italy where she is currently based.
Born in Tokyo, Rino Daidoji is an actor/performer and artist based in Italy and Japan. She is a co-founding member of Tokyo-based experimental theater company FAIFAI, and has appeared in a diverse range of domestic and international productions with the company. She began venturing into performing solo since 2014, and in 2015, moved to Cesena in northern Italy where she is currently based.
Tam Thi Pham is a Vietnamese multimedia composer, improviser, and performer currently based in Hamburg, Germany. She works with improvisation and contact dance while integrating technology into live and networked performances, creating dynamic experiences where music, movement, and technology intersect. Alongside her creative work, Tam organizes contemporary music and art events in Hanoi and Hamburg. Since 2025, she has been chairwoman of Hörbar e.V., presenting experimental music concerts with her team in Hamburg.
Tam Thi Pham is a Vietnamese multimedia composer, improviser, and performer currently based in Hamburg, Germany. She works with improvisation and contact dance while integrating technology into live and networked performances, creating dynamic experiences where music, movement, and technology intersect. Alongside her creative work, Tam organizes contemporary music and art events in Hanoi and Hamburg. Since 2025, she has been chairwoman of Hörbar e.V., presenting experimental music concerts with her team in Hamburg.