ASIATOPIA with Bangkok Art and Culture Centre would like to invite you to ASIATOPIA TALK 2014. This series of talk in exploring the development of performance art in Thailand as well as in the SE Asia region is part of BACC art books about performance art movement in Thailand.
The first talk on Thursday 21 August 2014 is “Performance Art in Thailand: The development and connectivities between artists in SE Asia” by Chumpon Apisuk and Nopawan Sirivejkul
Performance Movement in SE Asia and Thailand in 1980s:
This is the first part of a series of two talks exploring the development of performance art in Thailand, by Chumpon Apisuk. As performance art started to open a new window in Bangkok’s art community around 1986, Singapore had Artists Village, and performance had become a new form of expression in Indonesia, the Philippines and so on, etc. As Chumpon points out that we cannot learn about performance art development in Thailand alone without looking at the development that sprung in the region, and how they inspired each other, which later on became a strong network of regional performance artists.
CHUMPON APISUK:
Studied art at Changsilpa School of Fine Arts, Silpakorn University and The School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He also studied art with Tang Chang during the year 1968-1970. Chumpon found Concrete House, and Art and Community Action Center in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok in 1993. The Concrete House is the first art centre, which open specifically for performance art in Thailand. As an artist, he is one of the pioneers in performance art in Thailand, and still actively performs throughout the world. He has been active in promoting performance art in Thailand since 1985, when he was working as an assistant to the Director of Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art, in Bangkok; where he organized a multi-disciplinary live event called Wethi-Samai (Contemp-tre). He is considered the founder and has laid the ground for performance art in Thailand.Chumpon Apisuk found Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival in Thailand in 1988 and still a director of the festival. For more than 30 years he has been invited to teach, lecture and perform in many countries, around the world.
Nopawan Sirivejkul:
an active member of performance art community in Thailand. She has been a manager of Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival in Thailand since 2002, Nopawan is also a cultural writer for magazines and newspapers. Her photograghs have been exhibited in the Tadu Gallery and Thailand’s National Art Gallery, she has performaned in Thailand, Israel, Poland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar.
Free entry / No reservation needed
*The talk will be in Thai
ASIATOPIA TALK 2014 Schedule:
1st TALK Topic: Performance Art in Thailand; The development and connectivities between artists in SE Asia.
By: Chumpon Apisuk, Nopawan Sirivejkul
Date: 21 August 2014, Time: 2.00pm-4.00pm
2nd TALK Topic: Performance Art in new society
By: Randy Gledhill (Canadian Artist), Nopawan Sirivejkul
Date: 3 September 2014, Time: 2.00pm-4.00pm
3rd TALK Topic: The movement of performance art in 1980s
By: Chumpon Apisuk, Nopawan Sirivejkul
Date: 2 October 2014, Time: 2.00pm-4.00pm
4th TALK Topic: History of Israel Performance Art and Poland contextual performance art
By: Tamar Raban, Waldemar Tatarczuk
Date: 30 October 2014, Time: 1.00pm-3.00pm
