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Thailand Biennale: Edge of the Wonderland (last edited: 2021)

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This research resulted in Thailand’s first biennale. Based on preliminary research and workshops undertaken and organised between Birmingham and Bangkok in 2016, the researcher was invited by the Ministry of Culture to lead on the curation of the inaugural Thailand Biennale, a multi-million-pound landmark project, and one of the most important art events in Asia. Edge of the Wonderland provided a curatorial framework which inspired artistic reflections and interpretations of different cultural understandings of the link between reality and fiction, the existent and the imagined, the material and the spiritual, the experienced and the unworldly, and ultimately, the known and the unknown. Challenging conventional art exhibition spaces and the accepted formats of existing of art biennales, the researcher led a team of eight curatorial assistants, commissioned new site-specific works worldwide, and installed them on outdoor natural sites in Krabi. This unique platform stimulated and produced new artistic strategies in responds to increasing conflicts between the global and the local, the artistic and the natural, and between site-specificity and sustainability. The Biennale interrogated the distance between art and everyday life and allowed more than 2 million visitors to ‘encounter’ art. A rigorous process was implemented to select artists internationally. Following three-months of research, the curatorial team visited Krabi and numerous artist studios, and conducted artist-curator workshops in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Oslo, to initiate artwork proposals. Approximately 100 potential artists were invited to join the site visits in separate trips to Krabi in 2017 and to discuss their proposals with curators, Thailand Biennale Committee Members and International Advisors, as well as local communities in order to further develop their proposals for review. More than sixty-five artists from twenty-five countries were chosen for participation.

type	research exposition
date	02/11/2018
last modified	08/03/2021
status	in progress
share status	public
copyright	Joshua Jiang
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language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/826248/826249

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name	Felix BLUME, Rumours from the Sea, 2018, Bamboo, flutes (khlui) and various building materials, dimensions variable.
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name	Aram BARTHOLL, The Perfect Beach, 2018, two performers, aluminium frames, 250 x 440 cm
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name	Ayse ERKMEN, PD/MGRTT, 2018
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name	Ayse ERKMEN, PD/MGRTT, 2018, site-specific installation, billboards
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name	YANG Zhenzhong, To be or not to be, 2018, 10 trees, dimensions variable
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name	A K DOLVEN, did you leave your island, island, 2018, wooden house, solar-powered sound system, voices
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name	Jana WINDEREN, Through the bones, 2018
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name	The Map Office, Ghost Island, 2018, bamboo, fishing net, additional materials, dimensions variable
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name	Valentina KARGA, Coming Community, 2018, various construction materials, dimensions variable
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name	Yuree KENSAKU, Nagabi Transferry, 2018, collage and paint on canvas roof, stainless frame roof and Naga fibreglass head on Hua Thong wooden boat, 227 cm x 1080 cm x 340 cm
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name	Kamin LERTCHAIPRASERT & Suriya UMPANSIRIRATANA, No Sunrise No Sunset, 2018, fibreglass, aluminium composite panel steel tubes and concrete
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