BANGKOK LAYERS 4-22 April 2018
Bangkok Layers
Contemporary Art Exhibition
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Part of Topography of Mirror Cities
A project in 6 Asian cities: Bangkok, Dhaka, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh, Taipei
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Exhibition date: 4 – 22 April 2018
Venue: Studio 4, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
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Contemporary Art Exhibition
Project directors and curators: jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Project manager: Penwadee Nophaket Manont
Assistant curator: Suphitchaya Khunchamni
History advisor: Warawut Srisopark
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Project initiator and Chief curator of Topography of Mirror Cities: Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Organizer of Topography of Mirror Cities: Hyacinth Culture
Organizer of Bangkok Layers: Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Official support: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Venue support: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Equipment sponsors: Sony Thailand, TKS chemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd, Epson Thailand
Media Partners: Fine Art Magazine, Art4D
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Opening/Closing program
Opening Live Performance: Chintana Klaiprayong
Contemporary Art Exhibition
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Part of Topography of Mirror Cities
A project in 6 Asian cities: Bangkok, Dhaka, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh, Taipei
________________________________
Exhibition date: 4 – 22 April 2018
Venue: Studio 4, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
________________________________
Contemporary Art Exhibition
Project directors and curators: jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Project manager: Penwadee Nophaket Manont
Assistant curator: Suphitchaya Khunchamni
History advisor: Warawut Srisopark
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Project initiator and Chief curator of Topography of Mirror Cities: Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Organizer of Topography of Mirror Cities: Hyacinth Culture
Organizer of Bangkok Layers: Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Official support: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Venue support: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Equipment sponsors: Sony Thailand, TKS chemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd, Epson Thailand
Media Partners: Fine Art Magazine, Art4D
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Opening/Closing program
Opening Live Performance: Chintana Klaiprayong
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Closing Forum: Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo, jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Guide Tour & Artists Talk
Date/Time: Saturday, 21th April 2018, 4.30 - 6.00 pm
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Guide Tour & Artists Talk
Date/Time: Saturday, 21th April 2018, 4.30 - 6.00 pm
Scroll down for detail
Bangkok Layers Project
Bangkok Layers Contemporary Art Exhibition
This Bangkok Layers art exhibition is part of the Topography of Mirror Cities project, initiated by Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo as chief curator, and is funded by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan. The project chief curator has invited curators from 6 countries to mirror the “Place” of each capital city to be a study platform of visual and contemporary art exhibition.
The Bangkok Layers: contemporary art exhibition exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center, between 4th - 22nd April 2018, organized by Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture, curated by Jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai) has invited artists and experts from various fields, such as art historian, archeologist, astronomer, etymology designer, and 3D architecture graphic designer to participate in the artistic production to signify the dynamic reflections of the capital city of Thailand. Artists and experts exposed their concepts through multimedia works that can be divided into 3 categories:
Summary Methodology: Curating the Bangkok Layers
The Bangkok Layers project is achieved through exploring information across place, time and history, proposing through a contemporary art exhibition that displays a direct relation between information and persons towards decoding, interpreting and raising open-end questions over multi layers of information to disclose the fragments hidden under large carpet, woven by the society and control some parts or chapters from appearing in public for particular social purposes. There are number of multimedia of visual art works by artists and experts, who are interested in interpreting the interrelation amongst contemporary art, socio-politics and history, using artistic fundamental evaluation towards the concept and the dynamic of exhibition development process, to associate people with social knowledge by valuing and redefining over imagined landscapes and exploring history of a place or a particular location – even demolished historical sites. Such methodology is essential for learning and understanding individual’s reactions towards socio-environment enclosed with significance.
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.
This Bangkok Layers art exhibition is part of the Topography of Mirror Cities project, initiated by Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo as chief curator, and is funded by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan. The project chief curator has invited curators from 6 countries to mirror the “Place” of each capital city to be a study platform of visual and contemporary art exhibition.
The Bangkok Layers: contemporary art exhibition exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center, between 4th - 22nd April 2018, organized by Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture, curated by Jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai) has invited artists and experts from various fields, such as art historian, archeologist, astronomer, etymology designer, and 3D architecture graphic designer to participate in the artistic production to signify the dynamic reflections of the capital city of Thailand. Artists and experts exposed their concepts through multimedia works that can be divided into 3 categories:
- Something like a thing: Sometime like every time by Anupong Charoenmitr, represents through multi-channel video installation
- Bio-dictionary by Hongjohn Lin (PhD), represents through anamorphic wall painting
- Bangkok 1688-, a collaborative project between artists/experts from various fields include Warawut Srisopark, Nareemas Chehlaeh (PhD), Sébastian Tayac (PhD.), Pachara Chairuengkitti, Supot Kunanukun, Jirawan Kiatphotha, Awika Samuksaman, Rachan Klomklieng, Kaensan Rattanasomrerk and Sawitree Premkamol. Each of them has represented the result through diverse visual art forms: VDO, drawings, objects, books or documentations, etc.
Summary Methodology: Curating the Bangkok Layers
The Bangkok Layers project is achieved through exploring information across place, time and history, proposing through a contemporary art exhibition that displays a direct relation between information and persons towards decoding, interpreting and raising open-end questions over multi layers of information to disclose the fragments hidden under large carpet, woven by the society and control some parts or chapters from appearing in public for particular social purposes. There are number of multimedia of visual art works by artists and experts, who are interested in interpreting the interrelation amongst contemporary art, socio-politics and history, using artistic fundamental evaluation towards the concept and the dynamic of exhibition development process, to associate people with social knowledge by valuing and redefining over imagined landscapes and exploring history of a place or a particular location – even demolished historical sites. Such methodology is essential for learning and understanding individual’s reactions towards socio-environment enclosed with significance.
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.
Discussion Forum
Part of Bangkok Layers Contemporary Art Exhibition: Topography of Mirror Cities Project
Venue: Studio 4, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Date/Time: Saturday, 07th April 2018, 3 – 5 pm
Moderator: Penwadee Nophaket Manont
Session # 1 – Mirroring through Wordings
By Hongjohn Lin (PhD) and Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Through the research on a group of marginal people who live by the Chao Phraya River in Khlong San district and the nearby areas, Hongjohn Lin—the director of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts and the dean of Taipei National University of Arts—has transmitted instability of their living conditions within the center of the city culture in Bangkok into LIFE-KEYWORDS, stems from the human and community evacuations authorized by the government policies. Somehow, this being controlled and occupied with bio-power by the jurisdiction in the contemporary society has also brought out the uniqueness and strength.
As the conception of “curating topography” by Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo, the Chief curator of Topography of Mirror Cities, mentions that through the process of globalization and the development of capitalism, cities around the world are becoming more and more alike; "places" are gradually losing their uniqueness due to urbanization. People living in the city have to face problems in terms of living and lifestyle. As a result, the "mirror cities" in Lo’s sense, each city can reflect toward others and reflects on itself.
Session # 2 – Mirroring among Layers
Warawut Srisopark and Jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Besides Bangkok Governor, the portraits paintings concealed with codes for audience to deconstruct the structure as typical painting in the act of a historical archive that might have been substituted or intervened by mainstream historical-archaeology, Warawut Srisopark has also collaborated with the curators to retrieve resources for the project Bangkok 1688- about the turning point during the Siamese revolution of 1688 led to the Siege of Bangkok. Tens of thousands of Siamese troops spent four months in the siege of French fortifications within the city. It was the end of relationship between Thailand and France, and the establishment of Ban Phlu Luang Dynasty.
As Jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai), the curators of Bangkok Layers Exhibition state that the reflections of the mirrors appear before our eyes are not the truth in its entirety, it is essential to use the interdisciplinary art sphere along with imaginations and creativity in deliberating and analyzing the information. It also leads to a task of making the places of the case study to be marginal so that people’s curiosity is protected from being contradictory to the original knowledge, in order to invoke people's imaginings and provide spaces of creative discussion.
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Exhibition Guide Tour & Talk
21 April 2018, 15:00 – 17:00 pm
Studio Room 4th floor Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre (BACC)
Moderator: jiandyin
Bangkok Layers Contemporary Art Exhibition Guide Tour & Talk
Date/Time: Saturday, 21th April 2018, 4.30 - 6.00 pm
Venue: Studio 4, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
The Talk will be in Thai
Session # 1 – Guided tour
Moderator: jiandyin (่Pornpilai and jiradej Meemalai)
Curators of Bangkok Layers contemporary art exhibition, Topography of Mirror Cities project
For this Guided Tour, we introduce how the Bangkok Layers exhibition achieved the project through exploring information across place, time and history, proposing through a contemporary art exhibition that displays a direct relation between information and persons towards decoding, interpreting and raising open-end questions over the boundary of sociological phenomenology knowledge in relation to place, time and mainstream history.
The guided tour is opened for Q/A and discussion
Session # 2 – Artists Talk
Speakers: Anupong Charoenmitr, Warawut Srisopark, Awika Smuksaman and Sawitree Premkamol
The Artists Talk is an occasion to introduce artists and discuss about their artistic and research development for the exhibition as well as the process behind the works that accomplished through collaborations between artists/researchers and Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture.
Part of Bangkok Layers Contemporary Art Exhibition: Topography of Mirror Cities Project
Venue: Studio 4, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Date/Time: Saturday, 07th April 2018, 3 – 5 pm
Moderator: Penwadee Nophaket Manont
Session # 1 – Mirroring through Wordings
By Hongjohn Lin (PhD) and Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Through the research on a group of marginal people who live by the Chao Phraya River in Khlong San district and the nearby areas, Hongjohn Lin—the director of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts and the dean of Taipei National University of Arts—has transmitted instability of their living conditions within the center of the city culture in Bangkok into LIFE-KEYWORDS, stems from the human and community evacuations authorized by the government policies. Somehow, this being controlled and occupied with bio-power by the jurisdiction in the contemporary society has also brought out the uniqueness and strength.
As the conception of “curating topography” by Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo, the Chief curator of Topography of Mirror Cities, mentions that through the process of globalization and the development of capitalism, cities around the world are becoming more and more alike; "places" are gradually losing their uniqueness due to urbanization. People living in the city have to face problems in terms of living and lifestyle. As a result, the "mirror cities" in Lo’s sense, each city can reflect toward others and reflects on itself.
Session # 2 – Mirroring among Layers
Warawut Srisopark and Jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Besides Bangkok Governor, the portraits paintings concealed with codes for audience to deconstruct the structure as typical painting in the act of a historical archive that might have been substituted or intervened by mainstream historical-archaeology, Warawut Srisopark has also collaborated with the curators to retrieve resources for the project Bangkok 1688- about the turning point during the Siamese revolution of 1688 led to the Siege of Bangkok. Tens of thousands of Siamese troops spent four months in the siege of French fortifications within the city. It was the end of relationship between Thailand and France, and the establishment of Ban Phlu Luang Dynasty.
As Jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai), the curators of Bangkok Layers Exhibition state that the reflections of the mirrors appear before our eyes are not the truth in its entirety, it is essential to use the interdisciplinary art sphere along with imaginations and creativity in deliberating and analyzing the information. It also leads to a task of making the places of the case study to be marginal so that people’s curiosity is protected from being contradictory to the original knowledge, in order to invoke people's imaginings and provide spaces of creative discussion.
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Exhibition Guide Tour & Talk
21 April 2018, 15:00 – 17:00 pm
Studio Room 4th floor Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre (BACC)
Moderator: jiandyin
Bangkok Layers Contemporary Art Exhibition Guide Tour & Talk
Date/Time: Saturday, 21th April 2018, 4.30 - 6.00 pm
Venue: Studio 4, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
The Talk will be in Thai
Session # 1 – Guided tour
Moderator: jiandyin (่Pornpilai and jiradej Meemalai)
Curators of Bangkok Layers contemporary art exhibition, Topography of Mirror Cities project
For this Guided Tour, we introduce how the Bangkok Layers exhibition achieved the project through exploring information across place, time and history, proposing through a contemporary art exhibition that displays a direct relation between information and persons towards decoding, interpreting and raising open-end questions over the boundary of sociological phenomenology knowledge in relation to place, time and mainstream history.
The guided tour is opened for Q/A and discussion
Session # 2 – Artists Talk
Speakers: Anupong Charoenmitr, Warawut Srisopark, Awika Smuksaman and Sawitree Premkamol
The Artists Talk is an occasion to introduce artists and discuss about their artistic and research development for the exhibition as well as the process behind the works that accomplished through collaborations between artists/researchers and Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture.
Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
162 Moo 2 Nongpo Photharam Ratchaburi 70120 Thailand
Website: www.facebook.com/baannoorg/
162 Moo 2 Nongpo Photharam Ratchaburi 70120 Thailand
Website: www.facebook.com/baannoorg/
