After working in education, management and marketing, KAO Yi Kai returned to theatre to co-found Thinkers’ Theatre and, later, Tua-Tiu-Tiann Festival, both in the heart of Dadaocheng neighbourhood in Taipei (TW). Besides running Thinkers’ Studio, an independent and privately operated art space, he has supported young and emerging art practitioners in developing and producing their work, locally and internationally.
His own practice is strongly anchored in the relationship between art and communities, and he gradually expanded his focus to questions of gender and identity in Southeast Asia, recently initiating the digital and hybrid platform “Connect with SEA”, in collaboration with Dance Nucleus (SG) and Pineapple Lab (PH).
