Selected projects
Topography of Mirror City Project: Bangkok Layers
A project by Sandy Lo, a mapping of the development of the urban planning of each city within six Asian Cities, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, 4 – 22 April, 2018
Read more: http://www.topographyofmirrorcities.org/bangkok.html
Bangkok-Fortification East side, 2018, 2 channel monitors full HD video, color, silent, 4 min 9 sec, loop
Artist: Sawitree Premkamon
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
(Right) Bangkok Governor, 2018, Oil painting, 70 x 50 cm
Artist: Warawut Srisopark
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
”This exhibition aims to focus on the interpretation across the boundary of sociological phenomenology knowledge in relation to place, time and mainstream history associated with complexity between past, present and future projection through contemporary art process that achieved over research methodology, in order to reflect the process of reconstructing a knowledge as alternative representation of the existing knowledge. Questions and contradicted statements emerge through dialogues to challenge expectation from both audiences, artists/researchers who created works. It also presents visions and perspectives in multi facets of forms and methodologies under the subject. It builds and lights up learning experience and opening the gate that is overlapped multi-layers of meanings of the mainstream knowledge, including the aim to seek micro thinking order in the society by way of redefinition in an interdisciplinary visual art space that merges various fields of approach within the role of artistic production, a catalyst that provokes social interpretation. This is the knowledge system that fluidly transforms and inconstantly develops itself under diversified conditions unlike continuous chain loop. As a result, the relationship among distinctive factors within each phenomenon is essential to study, especially that of reactions able to deliver an understanding of the logic that inhibited in the phenomenon directly. Creating an open-wide understanding will enhance the interpretation potentiality. It often enables artists/experts and audiences to collaboratively participate in forming the method of moderating the variableness that frequently occurs in education field of sociological structuralism study which is subject to certainty of knowledge, division and rejection of otherness.”
Time Zero, 2018
Artist: Nareemas Chehlaeh (PhD)
One channel video, color, 56 sec., loop
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Laotemporary exhibition
Head Young Artist Project #3/2018
Head Young is a platform to express the potential of the young artists in the Northeast region, runs by Experiment in Visual Arts Research Group (EVA), Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Khon Kaen University.
“Tai-Lao or Thai-Isan, identity, and otherness, do exist in the history written by those who are superior and make the local history memorized through reproduction of oral record under the concept of nation-ness and political imagined communities which are invented to replace preoccupying real communities. For this reason, individual identity is very important to the existence of historical consciousness.
Laotemporary is like a representative image of the northeastern part of Thailand which holds its own language and culture. Each piece of art becomes a representative that expresses images, meanings, and a self-reminder as an individual, in order to show the beings with a concept that is unable to separate us from the outside. According to Martin Heidegger (b. 1889-1976), he describes this issue with the word “Dasein”[1] which has the meaning in terms of an encounter between the beings and the surroundings that connect and inter- act with each other in an intertwining form in the way that we can’t see (Sorayut Aiemueayut: 2018, 25).”
Read more: https://www.baannoorg.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AW-h-young_01-P01-40.pdf
Pushing, 2018,
clay, metal structure, 300 cm.
Artist: Achiraya Srisomchai
(Right) No time like the present, 2018, Live Performance, Blood, Clear acrylic sheet 60×90 cm., VDO HD on LCD monitor 42”, Color, silent, loops
Artist: Chomphunut Phuttha
THAITAI : A measure of Understanding
Stage 1 – Bangkok 2012
Stage 2 – Taipei 2013
Stage 2 – Taipei 2013
Exhibition Team
策展人Curatorial Team: Open-Contemporary Art Center (OCAC), jiandyin (Pornpilai and Jiradej Meemalai)
Project Directors: HSU, Chia Wei,許家維, LO Shih Tung羅仕東, jiandyin (Pornpilai and Jiradej Meemalai)
Project managers: 李若玫 Lee Jo Mei, Soifa Saenkhamkon
Project coordinators: Krynkana Kongpetch
Exhibition Assistants: Siwakorn Tesabumrung, Kaensan Rattanasomrerk
Exhibition Design：SHIH Pei Chun施佩君, CHOU Cheng Hung邱承宏
Install Organizer：SHIH Pei Chun施佩君
Exhibition Production Team：千鳥有限公司A Thousand Bird Ltd. Co.
Academic Assistant：CHEN Chia Jen 陳嘉壬
Visual Designer：LO Shih Tung羅仕東, SHIH Pei Chun施佩君
Accountants：LEE Jo Mei, Pornpilai Meemalai
Documentary Production：Lane 216, East
Symposium organizer: Esther LU呂岱如
Artist talk host: WU Mu Ching吳牧青, LO Shih Tung羅仕東
Stage 1- Bangkok
Exhibition period: November 22, 2012 – February 3, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 22 18:00
“THAITAI: A Measure of Understanding” is an artists run project by OCAC (Taiwan) and duo artists jiandyin (Thailand), a contemporary art project independently initiated for the first time between Thai and Taiwanese artists. The two-stage spine of dialogue is the works of the two countries’ artists created locally and overseas. The first stage began in Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in late 2012 and follow by 2nd stage in Taipei, in December 2013. In all, 10 Taiwanese and 10 Thai artists will collaborate, exhibit, and extend the activities such as forum at Chulalongkorn University; performance, and workshop to the Art Centre of Silpakorn University and OCAC Bangkok. The second stage will operate in Taiwan in 2013.
The Thailand/Taiwan contemporary art project focuses on the cross-culture experience of contemporary art, and the possible solution for it to substitute Western perspective. Contemporary art has paved us a way to intervene geopolitics. Not only is it able to stay independent from the reality, but also possesses the characteristic to infiltrate. This flexibility fittingly compensates the regional division within the discourse of anti-globalization and facilitates the regional localized aestheticization. When foreign culture has become brand names and presents itself as such in art market, culture experience and the integrity of art practice has been simplified as mere icons and pictures, and the details are lost in the process. From this standpoint, “THAITAI: A Measure of Understanding” poses questions and attempts to zero in on the irreducible interpersonal/ social experiences. Through transnational conversation and local practice, we would like to discuss how to annotate a scenario of artistic local communication as well as how to restore the complexity of art practice as communicative experiences.
The duo artists jiandyin from Thailand has been conducting this year-long conversation about the project with OCAC. In August 2012, OCAC, through partnership with jiandyin, relocated the their space in Bangkok for a six-month residency program for Taiwanese artists. The project tried to pay attention to the topic of cultural similarities and differences by inviting artists to participate discussions and work locally in order to imagine a work of remapping between Taiwan and Thailand. Furthermore, it can thus place the work on the opposite side of global art discourse.
Note: OCAC was founded since 2001. It is a group operated autonomously by artists in Taiwan. It has dedicated itself to curating, interdisciplinary communication, and promoting contemporary art. “THAITAI: A Measure of Understanding” is the 12th project of the OCAC Curatorial Series. The goal is to continue OCAC’s reflection on its negotiation with art and the public.
Press Contact
CHEN Szu Han(Chinese, English)
+66 86 797 0884; [email protected],[email protected]
Penwadee Nophaket Manont (Thai)
+66 84 709 3440; [email protected]
Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai (Thai)
+66 81 587 5715; info.jiandyin@gmail.com
Time
2012.11.22 – 2013. 2. 3
Location
7th floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Press Conference
16:00 2012. 11. 22
Curators and Artists Walk
16:45 2012. 11. 22
Opening Reception
18:00 2012. 11. 22
Special Performance
Lin Chi-Wei
Organizers
Open Contemporary Art Center (OCAC), jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Co-organizers
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Art Centre of Silpakorn University
Curatorial Team
Open Contemporary Art Center (OCAC), jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Exhibition Artists
Taiwan Artists/
CHANG En Maan, CHIU Chao Tsai, CHIU Chen Hung, CHOU Yu Cheng, FAN Hsiao Lan, HSU Chia Wei, LIN Chi Wei, LIU Ho Jang, LO Shih Tung, YEH Wei Li
Thai artists/
Suwicha and Kritsada Dussadeewanich, Preeyachanok Ketsuwan, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Sakarin Krue-On, jiandyin (Pornpilai, Jiradej Meemalai), Suporn Shoosongdej, Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch, Sutthirat Supaparinya, Thaweesak Srithongdee
Symposium
Location: Dept of Industrial Design, Chulalongkorn University
Time: Saturday, November 24th, 2012
1-3pm | A Measure of Understanding
3.30-5.30pm |What’s Next Trans
6-8pm | From External to Internal: The Relationship Between Alternative Space and Local Community, presentation
Project Initiators: jiandyin, HSU Chia Wei, LIU Ho Jang
Curatorial Team: Open Contemporary Art Center (OCAC), jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Organizers: Open Contemporary Art Center (OCAC), jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Co-organizers: Bangkok Art and Cultural Center (BACC), Art Centre of Silpakorn University (November 2012 – February 2013)
Project manager: Chen Szu Han, Penwadee Nophaket Manont
Adviser: Asst. Prof. Sutee Kunavichayanont
Grants and Sponsors: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; Cultural Affairs Department, New Taipei City Government; National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan; ACER; Asian Cultural Council New York, TEMCO TKS Chemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd. SONY; TOSHIBA
Residency program partners: Treasure Hill Artist Village, The Bamboo Curtain Studios and Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphics, Silpakorn University (2013-2014)
Media Partners: Fine Art magazine, art4d magazine, ARTITUDE
Special thanks to: The Jim Thompson Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Krungkasem Srikrung Hotel
Related articles/links:
http://etat-heath.blogspot.com/2013/03/blog-post.html
OCAC (Open Contemporary Art Center) Bangkok project, August 2012 – February 2013, Bangkok Thailand
The OCAC Bangkok project is a 6-month platform that jiandyin and OCAC co-organized and co-curated programs in August 2012-February 2013. The platform included salons or talk program that invited local and international artists to join, a 6-month residency program for Taiwanese artists who participated in THAITAI project and other artists and 3 stages in-house exhibitions.
【OCAC Bangkok) Stage 1
OCAC Bangkok’s Salon programs:
http://www.creativeokmd.com/event/49
Co-curate project:
The Metro-Sapiens: Dialogue in the Cave, an exhibition held in Chom Pon cave, Ratchaburi Thailand, curated by Sakarin Krue-On and jiandyin. The project turned a prehistoric venue into a contemporary art space aimed at facilitating dialogue within a community. The project invited over 20 international artists to utilize Chom Pon Cave in Ratchaburi, Thailand as a temporary art venue, discusses his motivations behind the exhibition, the challenges one encounters when a cave is exhibition space and how dialogue with a community was successfully given voice within the cave’s walls. – See more at: http://www.art4d.asia/beta/news-detail.php?id=232#sthash.6BeGd0RS.dpuf
See more at: http://www.art4d.asia/beta/news-detail.php?id=231#sthash.5ASRFOAl.dpuf
project information:
Cave project_Title and Concept
Article by brian Curtin, Bangkok Post, April 17, 2013
Article by Rebecca Vickers: http://www.art4d.asia/beta/news-detail.php?id=231