RETRACE & REFACE

Complex culture and urbanization of the two cities (Yangon-Phnom Penh study)

Conductor/Curator : Aung Myat Htay (Myanmar)

Artist : Ko Latt (Myanmar)

Architect: Pen Sereypagna (Cambodia)

Saturday 3rd June 2017

Auditorium, 5th floor and Meeting Room 501, 5th floor

 

10:30 – 12:00 Presentation (Open to the public)

13:30 – 16:00 Workshop Activity (Registered audience only)

 

The aim for the workshop is totrace the outlines of the two cities, Yangon and Phnom Penh imagining and projecting their future through the eyes of an artist and architect. In the workshop, maps will be keys to discuss overlapping views both geographically and artistically. There will be two parts of the workshop, the first part is a presentation opening to the public by Myanmar Artist, Ko Latt and Cambodian Architect, Pen Sereypagnato discuss themes in the city such as dominating culture, ethnic complexity, religion and linguistic heritages, and the second part is to map the cities through physical material such as writing, photos, prints, newspaper, or even national dresses forthe audience to compose the two cities based on their perceptions and experiences. As each city has been under ongoing urban development, it manifests both potential transition and vulnerability, the workshop addresses the point where the audience, the architect and the artists could exchange, make dialogue, compare, and learn from.

 

For more information and to register for the second part of the workshop , please contact

BACC educational department, [email protected], 02-214-6630 #519

Architect Bio

 

Pen Sereypagna (b.1989, Phnom Penh) is a freelance architect and urban researcher and acting director of Space for Architecture Cambodia, non-profit organization established in 2015 to widen knowledge and understanding of the country’s unique cultural heritage among architects, students and other enthusiasts’ passionate about architecture and urban heritage worldwide. In addition to this work, Pagna founded Lumhor, an online platform for architects, urbanists, researchers, and designers in 2010 to promote critical discourse, creative thinking and awareness about art, architecture, design and urban movement in Cambodia. His works on the Genealogy of Urban Form: Phnom Penh, Genealogy of Bassac and Phnom Penh Vision have been the subject of several exhibitions and presentations in Cambodia and selected venues in Southeast Asia and the U.S. organized by Sa Sa Bassac Gallery in Phnom Penh, Art Stage Singapore, H Gallery in Bangkok in Thailand, PARSONS the New School for Design in New York City, and Taipei Biennale 2016 in Taiwan.  

 

Artist Bio

 

Ko Latt (b.1987) is a young multimedia and performance art based artist who currently works and lived in Yangon Myanmar. He started learning his former art education in Newzero Art Space (2009), carried on working as a volunteer and organizer in several art projects conducted by Newzero Art Space. In 2003, He graduated Master of fine art from University of Zurich, Switzerland. From then on, His works were showing not only in Yangon but also in Gwangju (South Korea), Jakarta Biennial (2015), Queer Film Festival in Philippines, Lyon (France), Germany, Japan, Sweden, Stockholm and Thailand. He is also an activist for art and human right. 

 

Curator Bio

 

Aung Myat Htay (b.1973, Mandalay) certificated from the Fine Art school in Mandalay, 1993 and graduated in BFA at the University of Art & Culture, Yangon, 1998. Going beyond the traditional means of expression, he explores the potential of freedom of expression found in contemporary art. He does so by expressing social messages with work that combines contemporary and traditional art. He is deeply involved in the artistic community of Myanmar, where he shares the role of curator and writer since 2008. He has presented work in several regions of Asia including Japan, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong and US. In 2014 he received six-month grant from Asian Cultural Council (ACC) for New York Residency and research contemporary art in the US. In 2015 he co-founded SOCA (School of Contemporary Art), an alternative art learning community to support the new generation of art. The group also aims to reshaping and shaking in traditional limitations on art & culture. Recently he co-curated the public art project for the Yangon Art & Heritage Festival My Yangon My Home (Yangon). Now he based in Yangon and currently working as a freelance artist & curator, and writer.