Stone is not Stone

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Making of Stone is not Stone

Date: 29 August, 2021
Time: 18:30-19:30(Thailand Time)
Venue: Zoom
With Thai-English Translation
 

The reason for the lockdown made it impossible to travel to Dan Sai District – resulted in the need to change the working style to be online and led to a collaboration between Time, people who are stranded in Sangkhla, and Beer who lives in Dan Sai.  “Stone is not Stone” is an independent experimental and research project that gradually learns from the dialogue between two people, the exchange of information between the two cities, and the incidents that happen.  Both of them are interested in experiencing nature as an aesthetic and philosophical aspect. Suddenly, the stone was brought into the conversation, causing the two to recall the stone in their memory and continue discussing their ordinary but extraordinary qualities. Something that is a part of nature that is close to itself is full of traces of the past and can still be moved. This led to the idea of wanting to create some kind of interaction with the indigenous stones of another area. Both are therefore the mediums that select and carry the sediment from one side to the other. This was the beginning that made them pay more and more attention to the stone, gradually merging life with the foreign stone, and crystallizing into something new and different at a certain moment in the two areas.

Artist
Chanapon Komkham [Media Artist / Thailand]

 

Born in 1995, Chanapon has been raised in Bangkok. He completed his bachelor’s degree in painting from The Poh-Chang Academy of Arts and master degree in visual arts from Silpakorn University. He is currently working as a visual artist using various approaches including painting, photography, sound art, video art, installation art and mixed media from found object. Chanapon continuously showcasing his works since 2017 in group exhibitions, performance art showcase as well as experimental sound art showcase. His works inspired by surrounding landscapes that he experiences through his senses. He often combines established art process with the coincidental elements of nature and found objects to portrait inseparable arts in one’s daily life.

Artist
Arnuparp Jantakaew [Photographer / Thailand]

 

Arnuparp Jantakaew is a landscape, portrait, life photographer, and owner Arnuparp House Slowbar from Dansai, Loei, Thailand. He believe everything man made, they all have art involved.

Curator
Wayla Amatathammachad [Producer / Thailand]

 

Wayla Amatathammachad is currently the Festival Director of the International Low Fat Art Fest Vol.3 in Bangkok, and experimental art network called Prayoon for Art that focusing on creating safe and friendly environments for collaboration between art practitioners and civil societies.

Check the presentations and the artists' line up here.

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名取川 / 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐖𝐀 / แม่น้ำลักนาม
26 August 2021, 1400-1500(Thailand Time)
ⓥⓘⓢⓘⓣ: here 

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𝐀𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞-𝐈𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
27 August 2021, 1400-1500(Thailand Time)
ⓥⓘⓢⓘⓣ: here 

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𝐍𝐲𝐮 𝐒𝐡𝐮 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
28 August 2021, 1330-1430(Thailand Time)
ⓥⓘⓢⓘⓣ: here 

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"𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐝?" 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞
29 August 2021, 1400-1600(Thailand Time)
ⓥⓘⓢⓘⓣ: here 

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𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝: 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞
𝐃𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐢 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤
29 August 2021, 1600-1730(Thailand Time)
ⓥⓘⓢⓘⓣ: here 

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𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞
29 August 2021, 1830-1930(Thailand Time)
ⓥⓘⓢⓘⓣ: here 

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The Creators’ Cradle Circuit (3Cs) is a hybrid festival and platform organized by Karakoa for emerging Asian creators that is designed to connect them with artists and communities in cities across Asia. The 3Cs explore models of what a transnational mobile festival can be; whose aim is to help develop original works and connect artists with other arts practitioners and communities across Asia through:

Incubation for Artists:

• Open call for works in each country where Karakoa members and collaboration are based in.
• Curate the works alongside the creative team of Karakoa.
• Help develop works by emerging artists or collectives in the locality.

Festival for Community/City:

• Join the 3Cs (mobile festival) to present the works and develop them further.
• Facilitate the creation of networks by moving across Asian cities.
• Share the experience and interact with artists/mediators/audiences in the local community.
• Collaborate with a partner festival in each host city.

Discourse for audiences and arts-practitioners

• Organise talks facilitated by local critics and professionals in each host city.
• Meeting with professionals to meet insights on practical and conceptual ideas for the creations of works.
• Construct various ways of sharing artistic practice and process to make art more engaging and accessible to audiences.

Karakoa is a collective from Southeast Asia and Japan that aims to create intersections of networks to facilitate the transnational cultural exchanges; creating a space for sharing the contemporary artistic practices and its processes with the society to discover new artistic value for the next generation of art. By bridging independent creatives with art spaces, networks, festivals, and cultural organizations – Karakoa is a vehicle for meaningful collaborations and exchange to provide a safe space for artistic ideas and expressions.

Our Missions
Karakoa is a collective committed to creating an inclusive platform that [re]discovers Asian stories and marginalized voices *now and promotes their visibility by presenting various forms of artistic expressions, practices, and cross-cultural collaborations.
to facilitate critical discourse and foster better understanding of our realities.
to experiment with various contemporary models of coexistence, extinguish other-ing, and highlight multiple or hybrid cultural identities beyond the border of our social contexts.