The Asian Intercultural Conference (AIC) returns to Singapore in November 2026 – bringing together artists, academics, and cultural policy shapers around the theme Staging the Unseen: Bodies, Power, and Belonging.

Through the lens of intercultural and interdisciplinary practices, AIC investigates the performing body: shaped by multiplicity, plurality, fluid identities, and continuous negotiations across cultures, orientations, and histories.

For the first time, AIC 2026 moves into an evening format with three nights of encounters and exchanges from 25 to 27 November, culminating in a full day of events on 28 November.

Staging the Unseen: Bodies, Power, and Belonging explores the body as a site of diversity, contestation, and storytelling — how it is shaped by history, tradition, training, gender, life experience, and other sociopolitical forces. It challenges the politics of representation, asking: Whose stories do we have the right to tell? What does it mean to perform from the margins?

Through the lens of intercultural and interdisciplinary practices, AIC investigates the “performing body” — shaped by multiplicity, plurality, fluid identities, and continuous negotiations across cultures, orientations, and histories.