concept context contestation

Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia Traveling Project

Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia
(Jogjakarta, INDONESIA) Traveling Project

Organised by Exhibition Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Cemeti Art House,
Kedai Kebun Forum, and Ruang MES 56
Supported by Langgeng Art Foundation, and National Arts Council, Singapore

Viewing Period at Cemeti Art House, and Ruang MES 56: 21 August – 21 September 2016
Opening Reception at Cemeti Art House, Kedai Kebun Forum, Ruang MES 56:
20 August 2016, 19.00 hrs.
Symposium at Kedai Kebun Forum: 21 – 22 August 2016

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), in collaboration with Cemeti Art House, Kedai Kebun Forum, Ruang MES 56 present a traveling project, Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia, Jogja version-the original premiered at BACC Bangkok in December 2013 with the aim to form the connection between Southeast Asian art pertaining to social ideologies and expressive languages that artists’ critical views of society articulated through sometimes political narrations. In 2016, artists, curators and host artists who are cultural players will collaboratively create, expand and graft additional meanings on tothe new sphere that becomes Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia, Jogja version (Jogja Re-Focus CCC). To provide the dialogue of Southeast Asian artistic language through Jogja lens via collaborative programs and projects, Jogja Re-Focus CCC presents art exhibition of contemporary artists from 6 countries selected from the original exhibition along with entirely new works, which are installation, photography, video, drawing, as well as media.

Guest Curators: Iola Lenzi (Singapore), Agung Hujatnikajennong (Indonesia), and Vipash Purichanont (Thailand)

 

For more information: http://edm.bacc.or.th/edm/201607/eng.html

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