A Meaning of Histories…
Sébastien Tayac (PhD)
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Sébastien Tayac (PhD), born in 1976 in Cenon (Gironde), France, now lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand is a full-time lecturer at the Visual Arts Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University. Tayac graduated with a PhD degree in Languages, Civilizations and Eastern Societies (Art History) from the University of Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle. He published his articles such as “From Altermodernism to Radicant” and has been the curator for Gallery Seescape since 2013. He is specialized in art history and interested in social art and humanity to reinforce and create communities through participatory art knowledge. In 2016, Tayac joined 365 Days: LIFE MUSE (a model study for Nongpho community's foreign labourers) project as an invited artistic researcher. In the model study, he raised questions towards contemporary social issues regarding their functions in the area of visual art which hold responsibilities for society. Tayac's work exhibited in Bangkok Layers has developed academic articles by challenging them with a performance, by writing an article and interpreting the article through video art. In his article, he brings up 2 academic views from 2 individuals. The two views are different yet share their intertextuality interestingly. The 2 individuals consist of Thongchai Winichakul (b. 1957-) who talks about historical studies describing that the past was often built by our own thoughts and believed to be real, and Pablo Picasso (b. 1881-1973) who stated that art was a lie that made us able to access the truth. The interestedness of both views which present assumed reality and truthful lies shows us an attempt and an emphasis towards accessibility to the contexts of truth rather than the truth itself. Although the written history is not the truth of the past, it is merely a beneficial tool that connects us from the past to the present significantly, and although historical studies through the compulsory educational system would deny questions and arguments without opportunities for the history to be able to be functional and act as a tool to decrypt knowledge, to give precedence to and make an understanding of ourselves in the present days which are based on limitations and conditions of time, imaginations to make an understanding of the past are still required. Accordingly, history stays beside us
and has inevitably become a part of our lives.
Sébastien Tayac (PhD)
A Meaning of Histories…, 2018
Eng, Text: Bangkok Layers: Jurnal No. 1 Vol. 1 (April 2018), Single-channel monitor HD video, color, sound, 9 min 11 sec., loop
Cinematography: Siwat Maksuwan
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Sébastien Tayac (PhD)
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Sébastien Tayac (PhD), born in 1976 in Cenon (Gironde), France, now lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand is a full-time lecturer at the Visual Arts Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University. Tayac graduated with a PhD degree in Languages, Civilizations and Eastern Societies (Art History) from the University of Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle. He published his articles such as “From Altermodernism to Radicant” and has been the curator for Gallery Seescape since 2013. He is specialized in art history and interested in social art and humanity to reinforce and create communities through participatory art knowledge. In 2016, Tayac joined 365 Days: LIFE MUSE (a model study for Nongpho community's foreign labourers) project as an invited artistic researcher. In the model study, he raised questions towards contemporary social issues regarding their functions in the area of visual art which hold responsibilities for society. Tayac's work exhibited in Bangkok Layers has developed academic articles by challenging them with a performance, by writing an article and interpreting the article through video art. In his article, he brings up 2 academic views from 2 individuals. The two views are different yet share their intertextuality interestingly. The 2 individuals consist of Thongchai Winichakul (b. 1957-) who talks about historical studies describing that the past was often built by our own thoughts and believed to be real, and Pablo Picasso (b. 1881-1973) who stated that art was a lie that made us able to access the truth. The interestedness of both views which present assumed reality and truthful lies shows us an attempt and an emphasis towards accessibility to the contexts of truth rather than the truth itself. Although the written history is not the truth of the past, it is merely a beneficial tool that connects us from the past to the present significantly, and although historical studies through the compulsory educational system would deny questions and arguments without opportunities for the history to be able to be functional and act as a tool to decrypt knowledge, to give precedence to and make an understanding of ourselves in the present days which are based on limitations and conditions of time, imaginations to make an understanding of the past are still required. Accordingly, history stays beside us
and has inevitably become a part of our lives.
Sébastien Tayac (PhD)
A Meaning of Histories…, 2018
Eng, Text: Bangkok Layers: Jurnal No. 1 Vol. 1 (April 2018), Single-channel monitor HD video, color, sound, 9 min 11 sec., loop
Cinematography: Siwat Maksuwan
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
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