Placement of Professional Exchange 2025
About the program
MCH facilitates 3-month placement as approach to support arts practitioners from the region, can be different roles from different practice of arts, to another country in Southeast Asia. The participating practitioners and the hosts are nominated and invited by MCH and its partners.
The primary purpose is to offer a safe space for the practitioners, which may refer to physical space, emotional space, creative space or resting space. The program supports the practitioners to work as much or as little as appropriate, with no expectation of production as part of the program. Instead, MCH works with both parties to co-creates and co-defined the goals, giving the participants a self-directed space where they collaboratively determine their goals, pace, and use of time and resources with support from their local hosts and MCH team.
The output of the exchange could be open-ended but intentional decisions by the participants within the program objective, the framing and the resource MCH offers. MCH also facilitates coordination and logistics of the exchange as needed.
In 2025
The Program has invited four arts and cultural workers from Myanmar, Hong Kong and Thailand for a two months or three months exchange program in Cambodia, Thailand and Taiwan. MCH works with both artists and their hosts to establish the goals for each artist to explore and exchange during their placements. MCH also facilitates coordination, logistics of the exchange and support the exchange as needed.
The Program is implemented in collaboration with host organisations CICADA (Cambodia), Treasure Hill Artist Village (THAV) and Accton Arts Foundation (Taiwan), Prayoon for Art Foundation (Thailand).