Programs
Establishing recurring opportunities for artists and curators, with intellectual and financial support, enabling critical networks
Creative in
Residence
This program focuses on the contexts and experiences of those hailing from the globalizing souths, whose (enforced and voluntary) migratory experiences have forged transoceanic alliances of exchange and knowledge in the aftermath of colonial violence. The program endeavors to prompt critical encounters with disparate cultural memories, with the hope of challenging the assumptions of our systematized social worlds, whose realities are fashioned by hegemonic economies and histories bound to nation-building.
Talking and
Listening
This program is a series of intimate community discussions, bringing together invited artists, writers, and curators in Chiang Mai on a regular basis. Each gathering focuses on particular challenges with the ongoing work of one of the participants (an artwork, a piece of writing, an exhibition or project) or topics of interest to Thailand’s arts ecology. Attendees offer feedback, ideas, and inspiration to troubleshoot this work-in-progress or collectively explore thorny contemporary issues. These gatherings aim to nurture creative practice, expand community networks, and provide a space for learning in order to open opportunities for support and collaboration between members of Chiang Mai’s artistic community.
This program is initiated and organized by in-tangible institute, in partnership with Light Bulb, examining the role of the moving image in contemporary art and culture via moderated conversations, public screening events, and critical texts that focus on the need to discuss what we watch. Each event presents a particular creative practice, bringing it into conversation with a diverse audience of makers, facilitators, collaborators and supporters whose work intersects the moving image. These discussions are aimed at demonstrating the impact of collaboration and influence across disciplines, as a method to enrich creative work, in order to increase our knowledge of the power of moving images in contemporary life, in order to better understand how images today are consumed, exploited, overlooked, appropriated and more.
CULTIVATE is a professional development program organized by in-tangible institute and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) for curators / arts managers targeting current staff of art entities and freelance operators in Southeast Asia. CULTIVATE brings world-renowned faculty to Bangkok to develop 18 select arts professionals with skills and networks to distinguish themselves and their affiliates as leading facilitators of contemporary art in the region.
This recurring program provides emerging curators and artists in South East Asia the opportunity to co-produce and collaborate, to mutually benefit from this region’s private arts infrastructure – platforms recognizing the value of sharing (pollinating) their critical ideas and activities.
This award recognizes artists whose practices have not only produced critical experiments in their studio, but have also contributed to their social landscape – demonstrating that art today is of an interdisciplinary nature and that in the 21st Century our cultural voices matter in ways and means that are urgent unlike ever before.