SPEAKERS DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2021 ELIZA DAWSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RES ARTIS (AUSTRALIA)
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SPEAKERS DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELIZA DAWSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RES ARTIS (AUSTRALIA) 14:00-14:15 BKK TIME - OPENING WELCOME FROM RES ARTIS Eliza Dawson was appointed as the inaugural Executive Director of Res Artis in 2016 where her role is focused on fundraising, public profile and strategy for the organisation. Eliza served on the Res Artis Board of Directors from 2012 – 2016, including a 2-year term as Vice-President from 2014. For 6 years Eliza worked as Arts Residencies Manager at Asialink, Australia’s most long- standing artist residency program in the region. Eliza has diverse experience in the arts industry, having worked at a range of local and international institutions and organisations. Eliza speaks intermediate level Indonesian and holds a MA Art Curatorship and BA Creative Arts, both from the University of Melbourne. MAMI KATSUYA PROGRAM DIRECTOR, KYOTO ART CENTER (JAPAN) 14:15-14:45 BKK TIME - CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS: REIMAGINING RESIDENCIES Mami Katsuya graduated from Hiroshima City University (B.A. in International studies). She had been an artist-in-residence coordinator of Kyoto Art Center and curator of Yuhisai Kodokan Foundation before her current position. Katsuya is interested in the process of art making and mechanisms of artist- in-residence programs in the contemporary art field. She has engaged with many international projects such as ‘The Instrument Builders Project: Circulating Echo’ (2018), Culture City of East Asia 2017 and Feldstärke International (2017). She coordinated the 2019 Res Artis conference in Kyoto, “Creative Encounters: Reimagining Residencies”. She is a committee member of Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS), and Kyoto Writers Residency. JONGSUWAT ANGSUVARNSIRI MANAGING DIRECTOR, SAC GALLERY (THAILAND) 14:45-15:15 BKK TIME - ORIENTATION FROM SAC GALLERY Jongsuwat Angsuvarnsiri is the Managing Director at SAC Gallery and SAC Residency, based in Bangkok, Thailand. Jongsuwat holds a degree in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art London and has been with the gallery since 2012. Jongsuwat’s interests lie in the international art market, art residencies and cross-cultural exchanges. Jongsuwat specialises in the Thai 1
contemporary art field and aims to expand visibility for Thai artists to the global art scene. MIRANDA METCALF DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING AND SALES, SAC GALLERY (THAILAND) 14:45-15:15 BKK TIME - ORIENTATION FROM SAC GALLERY Miranda grew up in Seattle, Washington in the United States where she received her B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Washington, followed by her Masters degree in Art History from the University of Arizona in 2013. Miranda has worked for various for-profit and non-profit arts institutions over the last ten years, including The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; Davidson Galleries in Seattle, Washington; and Cicada Press in Sydney, Australia. She is particularly interested in increasing accessibly and diversity within the arts and sharing the vibrant contemporary art scene of Thailand with the world. GRIDTHIYA GAWEEWONG ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CURATOR, JIM THOMPSON ART CENTER (THAILAND) 15:15-16:15 BKK TIME - KEYNOTE, HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Gridthiya Gaweewong co-founded Project 304, a Bangkok based independent space since 1996. Gridthiya has co-curated with regional curators on several occasions including Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Gallery and Japan Foundation; Forum Japan (2003); ‘Politics of Fun’, an exhibition of artists from Southeast Asia, with Ong King Sen at Haus Der Culture der Welt, Berlin (2005), with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok (1996-2005), with David Teh on Unreal Asia, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (2010). She served as a curatorial team member of the 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (2018). Her upcoming exhibition series entitled, Errata; Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiangmai from July – November 2021. Gridthiya lives and works in Chiangmai and Bangkok,and is artistic director of the Jim Thompson Art Center. 2
ARTIST RESIDENCY THAILAND, CHIANG MAI (THAILAND) 15:15-16:45 BKK TIME - LAY OF THE LAND: PECHAKUCHA TOUR OF FIVE KEY RESIDENCIES IN THAILAND With no associated fees, highly experienced and passionate staff and a dynamic range of international partners, Artist Residency Thailand is one of Southeast Asia’s most progressive artist residency. Based in Chiang Mai, , Artist Residency Thailand has an international reputation for delivering high- quality, bespoke residency experiences for artists and Creative Practitioners at different stages in their careers. Residents are provided with the necessary environment and mentoring, to develop skills as workshop leaders, as well the resources and support to produce and evolve their own Creative Practice. JUNGLE MUSEUM RESIDENCY, KOH CHANG (THAILAND) 15:15-16:45 BKK TIME - LAY OF THE LAND: PECHAKUCHA TOUR OF FIVE KEY RESIDENCIES IN THAILAND Jungle Museum’s Artist in Residence program offers any local and international practitioners and thinkers the opportunity and support necessary to achieve new projects and initiatives and the time, space, and community to encourage growth and experimentation in their practice. It also fosters collaboration between other artists and various creators. Their program is held throughout the entire year. The quiet season is between June and October when you get close to the local community and enjoy a peaceful environment to concentrate on your work. On the other hand, the high season between November to May provides opportunities to show your work in the gallery and interact with visitors and other artists or volunteers. MATDOT ART CENTER, BANGKOK (THAILAND) 15:15-16:45 BKK TIME - LAY OF THE LAND: PECHAKUCHA TOUR OF FIVE KEY RESIDENCIES IN THAILAND Being in the right place at the right time is essential for the groundwork of creativity. At MATDOT, they empower artists in every kind of art, or even art lovers, to explore their potential. With all conveniences and working facilities available to the resident, our art residency program is the best opportunity for an artist in seeking new inspiration from this city. And for an art lover, what could be more exciting than spending time among all of these exceptional pieces of art and artistic people? 3
BAAN NOORG COLLABORATIVE ARTS & CULTURE, RATCHABURI (THAILAND) 15:15-16:45 BKK TIME - LAY OF THE LAND: PECHAKUCHA TOUR OF FIVE KEY RESIDENCIES IN THAILAND Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture is a non-profit artist initiative, a fundamental strategy for community development and an artistic practice service-providing program located in Nongpho district, Ratchaburi, founded by Jiandyin since 2011. Baan Noorg runs an alternative interdisciplinary art program for developing contemporary art and cultural production for local and global communities. It functions as an alternative learning platform for analyzing, and debating theoretically and practically toward social condition and community as case studies for exploring, researching and developing community engagement, social practice, cultural and contemporary art practice among artists, researchers, curators and educators from various fields. The expected outcome is to find out the possibilities of living together and achieving better community. DE’LAPAE ART SPACE, NARATHIWAT (THAILAND) 15:15-16:45 BKK TIME - LAY OF THE LAND: PECHAKUCHA TOUR OF FIVE KEY RESIDENCIES IN THAILAND De’Lapae Art Space Narathiwat is located in one of the three southern provinces of Thailand. Taking on small-scale art projects the directors plan to manage the space with the intentions of “value and beauty, the good in the heart of people in a society that is kind and generous to create a space where greater beauty is brought about when art becomes a part of the way of life.” VALENTINA RICCARDI ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ASIA-EUROPE FONDATION (SINGAPORE) 15:45-18:15 BKK TIME - ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF RESIDENCIES Valentina Riccardi is Associate Director within the Culture Department at the ASEF. She is in charge of culture360.ASEF.org, which offers up to date information on arts, culture and heritage from 51 countries in Asia and Europe. She also manages the Secretariat of the Asia-Europe Museum Network, a network of over 180 museums. In ASEF, she has curated several publications including the Creative Responses to Sustainability series and the Craft & Innovation series. Prior to joining ASEF, Valentina worked in Rome with Monti & Taft, an organisation focusing on cultural management. She was also a contributor to the Asian contemporary art publication Asian Art Now. Valentina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Sciences from the University of Rome – La Sapienza. She obtained her Master’s degree in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art Singapore. 4
TOLA SAY WRITER, RESEARCHER OF ARTS (CAMBODIA) 15:45-18:15 BKK TIME - ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF RESIDENCIES Tola Say is a passionate writer and researcher of arts. She worked for Khmer Times from 2017 to 2019 during which time she wrote about the arts scene in Cambodia. She has also worked in the core organising team for the ‘Khmer Literature Festival’ for four years. Her keen interest in arts and culture research saw her playing a significant role in the ‘Her Sounds’ project as a coordinator in 2019. That year, she also became a resident researcher with Heritage Hub Residency at the REPfest New Traditional Music Festival. In 2020, Tola worked as a research assistant on an international project called “Cambodian Mouth Harp” as part of the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme. All these projects gave her the opportunity to travel throughout Cambodia to witness diverse arts and cultural practices in various communities. SOE YU NWE ARTIST (MYANMAR) 15:45-18:15 BKK TIME - ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF RESIDENCIES Soe Yu Nwe is a prolific artist from Myanmar. After earning her MFA from RISD, Soe has participated in numerous international residencies. Soe exhibits her work internationally. Soe’s work has been acquired by Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art in Australia, and was named in Forbes 30 Under 30: Art & Style ‘s List in 2019. Soe Yu Nwe’s artistic practice explores notions of self in relation to nature and culture. Reflecting on her own multicultural identity as being fluid, fragile and fragmented, she creates hybridized bodies by referencing the viscera and the botanical in nature’s various states of growth, decay and death. NAYOUNG JEONG RESEARCHER, ARTIST (SOUTH KOREA) 15:45-18:15 BKK TIME - ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF RESIDENCIES Dr. Nayoung Jeong is a researcher and artist whose art takes the form of installation and performance by adapting locally sourced clay as the primal material to investigate feelings from the audience within the cultural variation. Jeong’s own history as an international artist inspires her work’s attempt to facilitate psychological resilience among immigrants living in new places. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts, and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design. She recently received her Ph.D. at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She has had over 70 exhibitions and 17 residencies around the world including the U.S., Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and the U.K. Locally, she has experienced an artist residency at ‘Peace Culture Bunker’ in South Korea. 5
ANASTASIA PATSEY DIRECTOR, MUSEUM OF NONCONFORMIST ART & SPAR (RUSSIA) 15:45-18:15 BKK TIME - ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF RESIDENCIES Anastasia Patsey is a curator based in St. Petersburg, and working internationally. She graduated from the St. Petersburg Stieglitz Art Academy and holds a dual MA in curatorial studies of the St. Petersburg State University and the Bard College NY. Since 2012 she is a permanent member of the curatorial team at the “Push- kinskaya-10”. Anastasia is co-founder and head of the St Petersburg Art Residency (SPAR). Since 2015 she also holds the directorial position at the Museum of nonconformist art. Besides her institutional practice she works as an independent curator and lecturer. Her academic research is dedicated to artistic self-organisation, art residencies, cultural mobility and modern nomadism. LIUDMYLA NYCHAI DIRECTOR, NAZARIY VOITOVICH ART RESIDENCE/NVAIR (UKRAINE) 15:45-18:15 BKK TIME - ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF RESIDENCIES Liudmyla Nychai is the Curator of NVAIR, and Project Coordinator of NGO Congress of Cultural Activists. Liudmyla is an independent researcher, art critic, and Curator at-Large of Lite at Haus Gallery Berlin. Since 2013 she has been researching art residency practices in the world, conducting lectures and consulting cultural managers in the Ukraine. In the process of reforming cultural policy in the Ukraine, her NGO lobbied for the support of art mobility. She opened an art residence as a laboratory for testing various formats. In 2018 she founded the International Exchange Program with German and Slovak partners. In 2020, NVAIR offered their first virtual program using 3D Internet tools, titled ‘Artist is absent’. In 2021 Lucy initiated the Digital Art Mobility Conference to start an international dialogue about the digital practice of arts residencies. YOKO NEGAMI OWNER/PRODUCER CO·IKI (JAPAN) 15:45-18:15 BKK TIME - ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF RESIDENCIES Yoko Negami graduated from the International Relations Course of Tsuda College in Tokyo. She studied at Wimbledon School of Art in London. Yoko created co·iki due to her interest in the ties between the individual and society, interdisciplinary processes and coexistence. Putting emphasis on co-living and co-creating, co·iki explores an alternative form of a residency program designed to build a bridge between numerous fields of art, culture and the wider sciences by connecting artists, experts and professionals. She also works between a wide range of fields from government led programs to entertainment events as well as community-building of online service development, further linking art with other areas of engagement. 6
SPEAKERS DAY 2 - FRIDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clockwise from bottom left: ANGELA SERINO (NETHERLANDS), PAU CATÀ (SPAIN), MIRIAM LA ROSA (AUSTRALIA), MORAG ILES (UK), PATRICIA HEALY MCMEANS (USA), ARTS RESIDENCY RESEARCH NETWORK/ARRN (GLOBAL) 14:00-15:30 BKK TIME - PANEL, ARTS RESIDENCY RESEARCH NETWORK (AARN) Since this year of disruption, virtuality and ecology have acquired new meanings, enhancing the need to care, think and be otherwise. A small international collective of researchers and practitioners studying artist residencies have come together to share ideas, and imagine new pathways into the new constellation in which we are all a part. They are exploring the meaning of presenciliality (the condition of 'being present’) and its others, chronodiversity, radical hospitality, cross- cultural resonances, and the perception of space and the creative act as embedded in wider ecologies. How can a residency respect the time of life, of the artist, the artwork and the institution? Can the monopoly of the presence, so often performed through artist residencies, be challenged? How do we deconstruct the current thinking around residencies and consider the specificities of remote and non-urban territories, and Indigenous knowledge and cultures? If physical movement is replaced, how might that affect the essence of the residency as the disruption of one's habitus? Who holds the digital space? ELLEN ADAMS WRITER, SONG WRITER (CANADA) 15:30-16:00 BKK TIME - INTRODUCING OUR VIRTUAL ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Ellen Adams (Canada/USA) is a queer writer of essays and fiction, as well as a singer-songwriter working in folk and country traditions. She’s particularly interested in the unexpected doorways between kinship and estrangement. Her writing appears in Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere, and has been listed as notable in Best American Essays. As a Fulbright grantee, she researched politically engaged contemporary art in Thailand. Her work has been supported by grants, fellowships, and residencies from Elizabeth George Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Lambda Literary and Banff Centre, among others. These days, she’s writing new songs, developing a novel, and working on a nonfiction book about how learning another language messes with our sense of self and belonging. You can visit her at www.ellenadams.net 7
NUTTAWAT ATTASAWAT FILMMAKER (THAILAND) 15:30-16:00 BKK TIME - INTRODUCING OUR VIRTUAL ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Nuttawat is a passionate filmmaker who started his career as an assistant director for multiple independent film directors in Thailand. In 2013, he was in Los Angeles and gained a lot of experience in filmmaking. From 2014- 2020, beside being an assistant director, he also starred in an independent film titled KAR- BI 2562 in a Neanderthal role. This film gave him the opportunity to be on the red carpet of Locarno Film Festival as an actor and a crew member. After returning to Thailand, the struggles of filmmakers in Thailand pushed him to keep doing assistant director, producer, and location manager roles for feature films and tv series that are filmed on location in Thailand. ONG JARUPONG THEATRE & B-FLOOR THEATRE (THAILAND) 16:00-16:30 BKK TIME – THAI DANCE PERFORMANCE Ong Jarupong is a traditionally inspired Thai dance company showcasing some of the brightest dance talent in Bangkok today. B-Floor is a Bangkok-based physical theatre company, creating highly visual theatre combining movement and multimedia elements stimulating social and political awareness. ANNIKA BJÖRKMAN (TBC) PROGRAM MANAGER, IAPSIS (SWEDEN) 16:30-18:00 BKK TIME - ADAPTING PRACTICE & PROGRAM TO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT Annika Björkman is the Project Coordinator of Applied Arts at IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists. Its mission is to work develop internationalisation with the aim of increasing and developing contacts between Swedish artists and international institutions, fellow artists, the general public and new markets to contribute to artistic development, improved working and income opportunities. This is done by means of residency programmes in Sweden and abroad, informational activities and expert visits, as well as via a public programme of activities which formulate and explore topical issues in contemporary visual art and design from an international perspective. 8
RY DAVID BRADLEY ARTIST (AUSTRALIA/UK) 16:30-18:00 BKK TIME – ADAPTING PRACTICE & PROGRAM TO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT Ry David Bradley graduated with an MFA from the University of Melbourne in 2013. Bradley is known as one of the artists at the forefront of new artistic theories and practices exploring the impact of digital technologies on contemporary art and society. In 2009, he founded the popular international website PAINTED, ETC. (www.paintedetc.com), which explores how digital technologies and imagery are contributing to reshaping the role and nature of art in contemporary societies. GUILIA POLI INDEPENDANT PROGRAMMER AND PRODUCER, DANCE & THEATRE (ITALY/SINGAPORE) 15:30-16:00 BKK TIME – ADAPTING PRACTICE & PROGRAM TO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT Guilia Poli is an Independent Programmer and Producer. After a Master in Arts Management, she started her career in London in the field of visual arts, but she then devoted her professional path to new media, performing arts and interdisciplinary art practices. She has curated projects for cultural institutions. In 2016 she was appointed Head of Programming for Theatre and Dance at Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato. From 2017 onward she developed the multimedia project ‘The Heritage’ promoted by UNESCO. She moved to Singapore in 2018 and started a new chapter of her career focused on international projects and collaborations between Europe and Asia. NICCO CHIEN ASSISTANT SITE MANAGER, THE BAMBOO CURTAIN STUDIO (TAIWAN) 15:30-16:00 BKK TIME – ADAPTING PRACTICE & PROGRAM TO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT Nicco Chien is the Assistant Site Manager of Bamboo Curtain Studio. She obtained a Bachelor of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang Ming University, in 2020. She later started an internship in Taipei Artist Village and became a member of Bamboo Curtain Studio. She has conducted the Taiwan Southeast Asia Program granted by Asian Cultural Council, in which cultural exchange was the main content. In 2021, due to the ongoing effect of the pandemic, she established an intraisland residency and an Artist-Virtual-Residency program, ‘Common Plague. Common Decency.’, in response to reality and to keep international conversation rolling. 9
NAM MIJIN DIRECTOR OF ARTS AND CREATIVE SPACE DIVISION, SFAC (SOUTH KOREA) 16:30-18:00 BKK TIME - ADAPTING PRACTICE & PROGRAM TO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT Nam Mijin is currently the Director of Arts & Creative Spaces Division at Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC). She leads 10 arts spaces including 5 art residencies including Seoul Art Space Gumcheon, Yeonhui, Jamsil and Sindang, and Seoul Dance Center. She has been working at SFAC since its establishment in 2004, in the departments of Seoul Arts & Culture Education Center, Research & Development team, and Future Planning team. Before joining SFAC, she worked for the Korea National University of Arts as a program coordinator of dance performances and KNUA Dance Company. She holds a PhD in Education from Kyunghee University and she also studied Arts Management at Korea National University of Arts. OYINDAMOLA FAKEYE ASSOCIATE ARTS CONSULTANT WEST AFRICA, THE BRITISH COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS (NIGERIA) 16:30-18:00 BKK TIME – ADAPTING PRACTICE & PROGRAM TO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT The British Council builds connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education and the English language. The British Council works in two ways – directly with individuals to transform their lives, and with governments and partners to make a bigger difference for the longer term, creating benefit for millions of people all over the world. It helps young people to gain the skills, confidence and connections they are looking for to realise their potential and to participate in strong and inclusive communities. GOETHE INSTITUTE 18:00-18:30 BKK TIME - ARTIST REFLECTIONS ON RESIDENCIES IN LOCKDOWN The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institute, active worldwide. We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. Through this conference Res Artis is partnering with the Goethe-Institut in Thailand. Based in Bangkok, they promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. In 2020 the Goethe Institut curated a series of short videos that feature artists in residence from all around the world who are locked down in Germany at the height of the pandemic. These videos will feature in our conference. 10
AVERY ANAPOL RESEARCHER, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UK) 14:00-14:30 BKK TIME - RES ARTIS/UCL IMMEDIATE AND MEDIUM-TERM SUR- VEY FINDINGS Avery Anapol is a writer, editor and researcher, originally from Wisconsin, USA and based in the UK. She currently works as a commissioning editor for The Conversation UK, helping academics present their expertise on politics, society and business to the general public. As a research assistant to UCL’s collaboration with Res Artis, she helped design the COVID-19 Impact Surveys, analyse the resulting data and write the survey reports. Her research interests lie at the intersection of language, politics, power and technology. In 2021, she was awarded her MA with distinction from UCL’s Institute of Education. For this, she researched the design of COVID-19 internet memes to learn how they were used as political tools to criticise the government. She tweets about linguistics, pop culture, and her own work at @AveryAnapol. LEA O’LOUGHLIN PRESIDENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, RES ARTIS & CO-DIRECTOR OF ACME (UK) 14:30-16:00 BKK TIME -RES ARTIS/UCL SURVEY INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: RISING TO MEET THE NEW FACE OF THE ART WORLD Lea O’Loughlin (UK) is the President of the Res Artis Board of Directors and Co- Director of Acme in London. Holding an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art London and BA of Visual Arts from the University of South Australia, her previous experience includes working with The Royal British Society of Sculptors, The Florence Trust, Tate, Gasworks, Cubitt Artists (United Kingdom), MoMA (United States) and Adelaide Central Gallery & Studios (Australia). ELIZA DAWSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RES ARTIS (AUSTRALIA) 14:00-14:15 BKK TIME - OPENING WELCOME FROM RES ARTIS Eliza Dawson was appointed as the inaugural Executive Director of Res Artis in 2016 where her role is focused on fundraising, public profile and strategy for the organisation. Eliza served on the Res Artis Board of Directors from 2012 – 2016, including a 2-year term as Vice-President from 2014. For 6 years Eliza worked as Arts Residencies Manager at Asialink, Australia’s most long- standing artist residency program in the region. Eliza has diverse experience in the arts industry, having worked at a range of local and international institutions and organisations. Eliza speaks intermediate level Indonesian and holds a MA Art Curatorship and BA Creative Arts, both from the University of Melbourne. 11
JEAN-BAPTISTE JOLY HONORARY BOARD MEMBER, RES ARTIS (GERMANY) 14:30-16:00 BKK TIME -RES ARTIS/UCL SURVEY INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: RISING TO MEET THE NEW FACE OF THE ART WORLD Jean-Baptiste Joly is the founding director and was until March 2018 CEO and artistic director of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany’s largest artist residency program where he introduced a multitude of activities and new initiatives. Jean-Baptiste studied German Studies in Paris and Berlin. From 1983-1988 he was the director of the French cultural institute in Stuttgart, creating the very first artist residency ever in a French institute in 1986. He has experience in founding a residency, international support of emerging residencies, invention of new fellowship programs, long-term perspective for artists’ residencies, interdiscipli- nary projects, worldwide overview of residency politics, alumni policy strategies and network activities. Since 1998 Jean-Baptiste is honorary professor at Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin. AVERY ANAPOL RESEARCHER, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UK) 14:00-14:30 BKK TIME - RES ARTIS/UCL IMMEDIATE AND MEDIUM-TERM SURVEY FINDINGS Avery Anapol is a writer, editor and researcher, originally from Wisconsin, USA and based in the UK. She currently works as a commissioning editor for The Conversation UK, helping academics present their expertise on politics, society and business to the general public. As a research assistant to UCL’s collaboration with Res Artis, she helped design the COVID-19 Impact Surveys, analyse the resulting data and write the survey reports. Her research interests lie at the intersection of language, politics, power and technology. In 2021, she was awarded her MA with distinction from UCL’s Institute of Education. For this, she researched the design of COVID-19 internet memes to learn how they were used as political tools to criticise the government. She tweets about linguistics, pop culture, and her own work at @AveryAnapol. FLORIAN MUSSGNUG FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES, UCL (UK/ITALY) 14:30-16:00 BKK TIME -RES ARTIS/UCL SURVEY INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: RISING TO MEET THE NEW FACE OF THE ART WORLD Florian Mussgnug is Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at University College London, where he was founding director of the Undergraduate Programme in Comparative Literature. He holds a BA and Masters from Oxford University and a PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa. His publications include ‘Human Reproduction and Parental Responsibility: New Theories, Narratives, Ethics’ (2020, with Simona Corso and Virginia Sanchini), ‘Rethinking the Animal-Human Relation: New Perspectives in Literature and Theory’ (2019, with Stefano Bellin and Kevin Inston), ‘The Good Place: Comparative Perspectives on Utopia’ (2014, with Matthew Reza), 12
and ‘The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde’ (2010, winner of the 2012 Edinburgh Gadda Prize). JO TOWNSHEND PRINCIPAL PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UK) 14:30-16:00 BKK TIME -RES ARTIS/UCL SURVEY INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: RISING TO MEET THE NEW FACE OF THE ART WORLD Jo works at UCL Innovation & Enterprise, a team working with large firms, external partners and SMEs in key sectors to forge institutional-level business partnerships that will extend UCL’s research into new areas and lead to new innovations with industry. Jo is responsible for identifying and developing UCL strategic partnerships with the cultural and creative industries. She has a particular interest in organising and managing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary partnerships with the arts. THE LUIS (THAILAND) 16:00-16:30 BKK TIME - THAI MUSIC PERFORMANCE Join contemporary Thai musical duo, The Luis, as they mix contemporary folk songs with Thai musical instruments. Their music references a lot of “loong kroong” music, a type of Thai music that was popular around the 30s. BENJAMIN HAMPE PROJECT DIRECTOR, KONNECT ASEAN, ASEAN FOUNDATION (SINGAPORE) 16:30-18:00 BKK TIME - SPOTLIGHT ON THE ASEAN REGION Benjamin Milton Hampe is a curator and project director at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). His work with ASEAN started in 2017 when he organised ASEAN’s 50 year anniversary exhibition at the ASEAN Gallery. Since then he has provided ongoing strategic planning, curatorial, and training services for the ASEAN Gallery and Collection. In 2020 he was appointed Project Director of KONNECT ASEAN, a development project supported by the Republic of Korea and the ASEAN Foundation’s core arts and cultural programme. In addition to over 15 years as a consultant he has served in leadership roles for a private museum and commercial art galleries and art fairs. He is Burmese/Australian and lives in Singapore. 13
LINDA MAYASARI DIRECTOR, CEMETI INSTITUTE FOR ART & SOCIETY (INDONESIA) 14:30-16:00 BKK TIME - SPOTLIGHT ON THE ASEAN REGION Linda Mayasari is Director at Cemeti - Institute for Art and Society, where she has worked since 2010, as well as a member of the associate curator for the Indonesia Dance Festival. She is currently completing a Masters programme in Cultural Studies at Sanata Dharma University, whilst pursuing personal research and writing exploring the intersections of art, politics and post colonialism within the cultural and historical context of Indonesia. Previously, Linda worked as a program manager at Bagong Kussudiardja Foundation (2008 - 2010), a performing art space in Yogyakarta, and was a member of Gandrik Theatre (2009 - 2015). MANSHUR ZIKRI CURATOR/ARTISTIC MANAGER (INDONESIA) 14:30-16:00 BKK TIME - SPOTLIGHT ON THE ASEAN REGION Manshur Zikri is a critic, artist, and curator who has been working as Curator and Artistic Manager at Cemeti - Institute for Art and Society, Yogyakarta, since 2019. He graduated from the Department of Criminology, the University of Indonesia, in 2014. He is a member of Forum Lenteng (a Jakarta- based arts-cultural collective). Zikri independently researches issues around art, film, and media. His writings have been published on several platforms both nationally and internationally, such as ‘Empowered Communities for Government Empowerment: Concepts and Practices’ (the 6th International Symposium of the Indonesian Anthropology Journal, De- pok, 2016), or ‘Vernacular Visuals and the Language of Current Media Arts’ (the National Symposium on Media Arts Indonesia, Pekanbaru, 2017). VUTH LYNO ARTIST, CURATOR, SA SA ART PROJECTS (CAMBODIA) 14:30-16:00 BKK TIME - SPOTLIGHT ON THE ASEAN REGION Vuth Lyno is an artist, curator, and educator interested in space, cultural history, and knowledge production. His artworks often engage with micro and overlooked histories, notions of community, place-making, and production of social relations. He works across various media, including photography, video, sculpture, light, and sound, often constructing architectural bodies as situations for interaction. He introduces human stories and knowledge within these installations by drawing on a wide range of materials such as original interviews, artifacts, and newly made objects. Lyno holds a Master of Art History from the State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, a Fulbright Fellowship (2013-15), and a Master of International Development from RMIT University, Melbourne, supported by the Australian Endeavour Award (2008 2009). 14
HA NINH PHAM ARTIST (VIETNAM) 16:30-18:00 BKK TIME - SPOTLIGHT ON THE ASEAN REGION Hà Ninh Pham is a fine artist and art educator from Hanoi, Vietnam. His work explores how we build up our understanding of territories from afar. Hà Ninh Pham earned his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2018 and his BFA from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 2014. His work has been featured on Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, and Art and Market. Hà Ninh has been in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Corporation of Yaddo, Wassaic Project, the Marble House Project in the United States, and PLOP in the United Kingdom. His work has been shown in New York, London, Philadelphia, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Hà Ninh Pham is represented by the gallery A+ Works of Art at S.E.A. Focus 2021, Singapore. ROSALIA NAMSAI ENGCHUAN ARTIST (THAILAND) 16:30-18:00 BKK TIME - SPOTLIGHT ON THE ASEAN REGION Rosalia Namsai Engchuan (she/her) is an artist and researcher based between Berlin and Southeast Asia. Her PhD research looks at practices of community filmmaking in Indonesia, investigating how cinematic epistemologies produce and socialise knowledges. Her video works are speculative vessels that aim to undo the underlying structures of colonialism, race, gender and class that shape the production of our worlds and from there, collectively with her research collaborators creates worlds otherwise. Rosalia curates screenings and dialogical encounters with a focus on independent and experimental works from locales of the ‘epistemological’ South, often in collaboration with the Berlin based collective un.thai.tled and the Southeast Asia based initiative The Forest Curriculum. She is the 2021 Goethe-Institut fellow at Hamburger Bahnhof and artist in residence at Purple Tree, Thailand. Rosalia is one of the co-founders of the space with the rubbles, a conceptual and physical space of communal study in Berlin. 15
SPEAKERS DAY 4 - TUESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JEAN-BAPTISTE JOLY HONORARY BOARD MEMBER, RES ARTIS (GERMANY) 14:00-15:00 BKK TIME - THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘HOSTING’ IN ALTERNATIVE RE SIDENCY FORMATS Jean-Baptiste Joly is the founding director and was until March 2018 CEO and artistic director of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany’s largest artist residency program where he introduced a multitude of activities and new initiatives. Jean-Baptiste studied German Studies in Paris and Berlin. From 1983-1988 he was the director of the French cultural institute in Stuttgart, creating the very first artist residency ever in a French institute in 1986. He has experience in founding a residency, international support of emerging residencies, invention of new fellowship programs, long-term perspective for artists’ residencies, interdiscipli- nary projects, worldwide overview of residency politics, alumni policy strategies and network activities. Since 1998 Jean-Baptiste is honorary professor at Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin. MIRIAM LA ROSA INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER & CURATOR (AUSTRALIA) 14:00-15:00 BKK TIME - THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘HOSTING’ IN ALTERNATIVE RESIDENCY FORMATS Miriam La Rosa is a curator and PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne with over ten years of experience working in the art field. Her research looks at notions of gift-exchange and host-guest relationships in the artist residency. Since 2015 she has developed and participated in several residencies across Italy, the UK and Australia. In 2019, she co-curated a cross- cultural exchange project between Sicily (Italy), Gippsland and Peppimenarti (Australia) and in 2020 hosted a digital exchange for the Marrgu Residency Program—an Indigenous-led initiative of Durrmu Arts. Miriam is a member of the Art Residency Research Network (ARRN), which she co-founded in 2020 alongside fellow researchers studying artist residencies. She is a Graduate Fellow at the Centre of Visual Arts (CoVA) and Treasurer of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) Australia. 16
REGINA PILAWUK WILSON NGAN’GIKURRUNGUR WOMAN, SENIOR ARTIST AND CULTURAL DIRECTOR OF DURRMU ARTS (AUSTRALIA) 14:00-15:00 BKK TIME - THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘HOSTING’ IN ALTERNATIVE RESIDENCY FORMATS Regina was born in 1948 in the Daly River region, Northern Territory, Australia. She lives and works in Peppimenarti, Northern Territory, Australia. Regina won the General Painting category of the Telstra National Indigenous and Torres-Strait Islander Award in 2003 for a golden syaw (fish-net) painting. The cultural significance of ‘message sticks’ are also celebrated in her paintings– a traditional form of communication between communities. FAYEN D’EVIE ARTIST (AUSTRALIA) 14:00-15:00 BKK TIME - THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘HOSTING’ IN ALTERNATIVE RESIDENCY FORMATS Fayen d'Evie is an artist, writer, and publisher, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now living in the bushlands of unceded Jaara country, Australia. Her projects are often collaborative, and resist spectatorship by inviting audiences into sensorial readings of artworks. She is the founder of 3-ply, which approaches artist-led publishing as an experimental, critical, and poetic site for the creation, dispersal, and archiving of texts. Fayen co-founded the Museum Incognita, a decolonised museum structure grounded in custodial ethics, that activates collective readings of neglected and obscured histories, through sensorial scores, performative encounters, and intertwining threads of story. LEA O’LOUGHLIN PRESIDENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, RES ARTIS & CO-DIRECTOR OF ACME (UK) 15:00-16:00 BKK TIME – BREAKOUT DISCUSSION: ARE WE ON TARGET? Lea O’Loughlin (UK) is the President of the Res Artis Board of Directors and Co- Director of Acme in London. Holding an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art London and BA of Visual Arts from the University of South Australia, her previous expe- riene includes working with The Royal British Society of Sculptors, The Florence Trust, Tate, Gasworks, Cubitt Artists (United Kingdom), MoMA (United States) and Adelaide Central Gallery & Studios. 17
JONGSUWAT ANGSUVARNSIRI MANAGING DIRECTOR, SAC GALLERY (THAILAND) 15:00-16:00 BKK TIME – BREAKOUT DISCUSSION: ARE WE ON TARGET? Jongsuwat Angsuvarnsiri is the managing director at SAC Gallery and SAC Residency, based in Bangkok, Thailand. Jongsuwat holds a degree in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art London and has been with the gallery since 2012. Jongsuwat’s interests lie in the international art market, art residencies and cross-cultural exchanges. Jongsuwat specialises in the Thai contemporary art field and aims to expand visibility for Thai artists to the global art scene. VEERAPORN NITIPRAPHA AUTHOR (THAILAND) 16:00-16:30 BKK TIME - READING Veeraporn Nitiprapha is a Thai author of novels and short stories. Her work has been acclaimed for its distinctive lyrical character, often influenced by classical Thai literature, and its subtle reflection on human relation-ship in modern Asian society and its intersection with current politics. She is the author of The Blind Earthworm in a Labyrinth and The Dusk of Buddhist Era and Recalling the Memory of the Black Rose Cat and winner of the Southeast Asia (SEA) Write Award in 2015 and 2018 for a reading. JULIE TRÉBAUD DIRECTOR, ARTISTS AT RISK CONNECTION/ARC (USA) 16:30-18:00 BKK TIME - PASSPORTS, VISAS & INTERNATIONAL LAW Julie Trébault is the director of the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), a project of PEN America that aims to safeguard the right to artistic freedom by connecting threatened artists to support, building a global network of resources for artists at risk, and forging ties between arts and human rights organizations. She has nearly two decades of experience in international arts programming and network-building, including at the Museum of the City of New York, the Center for Architecture in New York, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, The Netherlands, and the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. She holds a Master’s Degree in Arts Administration from the Sorbonne University and a Master’s Degree in Archeology from the University of Strasbourg, and teaches at Fordham University. 18
EMILY DONNAN-COURTADE PROGRAMME OFFICER, TRUSTLAW (EMENA REGION) 16:30-18:00 BKK TIME - PASSPORTS, VISAS & INTERNATIONAL LAW Emily joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation in October 2019 as a Programme Officer for the EMENA region. In her role she primarily supports the management of TrustLaw’s portfolio of law firms, social enterprises and NGOs. Prior to joining the Foundation, Emily lived in Geneva where she worked as a Junior Advocacy Officer for the NGO Plan International. Emily has a legal background and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and French and a Master’s degree in Human Rights. 19
SPEAKERS DAY 5 - THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEA O’LOUGHLIN PRESIDENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, RES ARTIS & CO-DIRECTOR OF ACME (UK) 6:00 – 7:30 BKK TIME - MAKING THE MONEY WORK Lea O’Loughlin (UK) is the President of the Res Artis Board of Directors and Co-Director of Acme in London. Holding an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art London and BA of Visual Arts from the University of South Australia, her previous expe- riene includes working with The Royal British Society of Sculptors, The Florence Trust, Tate, Gasworks, Cubitt Artists (United Kingdom), MoMA (United States) and Adelaide Central Gallery & Studios. ONG SIRAPHISUT FOUNDER, COMPEUNG (THAILAND) 6:00-7:30 BKK TIME - MAKING THE MONEY WORK Ong Siraphisut, also known as Pisithpong Siraphisut is a multidisciplinary artist who works with a range of media. In 2006, He founded ComPeung, the first independent artist residency program in Thailand. Since then he has worked with hundreds of artists from a vast variety of disciplines, ages, genders, backgrounds, and from every continent. Siraphisut had collaborated with a variety of professionals in projects and exhibitions including recently in Thailand, Nepal, India, Japan and USA. MAREN NIEMEYER DIRECTOR, GOETHE-INSTITUT, THAILAND (THAILAND) 6:00-7:30 BKK TIME - MAKING THE MONEY WORK Born in Bremen, Germany, Maren Niemeyer studied journalism, German philology and film theory in Paris and Berlin. She has worked as a journalist, editor, documentary filmmaker and producer for national and international radio and TV channels, mainly for ARD, ZDF, DW-TV and the German-French cultural channel ARTE. In 2007, Maren produced the ARTE/ARD Documentary-Series about the magic hippie trail to Kathmandu in the late sixties and in 2008 she produced a worldwide broadcasted series about the Myths of German Design for Deutsche Welle TV. From 2008 until 2009, Maren Niemeyer was a Commissioning Editor for the Documentary Film department of NDR/ARTE. From 2010 to 2016, she was Program-Coordinator for the Film-Department of the Goethe-Institut Headquarter in Munich. Since July 2016, Maren Niemeyer is the director of the Goethe-Institut Thailand. 20
TARU INAMURA PROGRAM OFFICER, THE SAISON FOUNDATION (JAPAN) 6:00-7:30 BKK TIME - MAKING THE MONEY WORK Taru Inamura is currently a Program Officer at The Saison Foundation. He has supported the stay of numerous artists and art managers who work in the field of contemporary theater and dance, as the coordinator of the Saison Artist in Residence, and worked with international partners for exchange programs. He is currently working on an online and remote artist-in-residence program under the situation of the pandemic. In addition, he launched a study group to research and understand the actual situation, trends, and issues in the production and operation of AIR’s related to the performing arts in 2020 and the study group has explored the possibility of collaboration between the network of AIR organizations in Japan and overseas networks. https://www.saison.or.jp/en/air ELLEN ADAMS SINGER, SONGWRITER (CANADA/THAILAND) 6:00-7:30 BKK TIME - MAKING THE MONEY WORK Ellen Adams is a queer writer of essays and fiction, as well as a singer- songwriter working in folk and country traditions. She’s particularly interested in the unexpected doorways between kinship and estrangement. Her writing appears in Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review Online and has been listed as notable in Best American Essays. As a Fulbright grantee, she researched politically engaged contemporary art in Thailand. These days, she’s writing new songs, developing a novel, and working on a nonfiction book about how learning another language messes with our sense of self and belonging. You can visit her at www.ellenadams.net KAI LATVALEHTO PROJECT MANAGER, NORTHERN AIR/RES ARTIS (FINLAND) 7:30-9:00 BKK TIME -THE IMPORTANCE OF NETWORKS Kai Latvalehto is Project Manager at KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre and holds a PhD from Åbo Akademi (2018) and a MA in English from Oulu University (1995) in Finland. In the past he has worked extensively within music, education and documentary film. In recent years he has his concentrated on Sweden-Finnishness and his latest undertaking was establishing a residency for the Sweden-Finnish Cultural Embassy in Oulu. Kai’s work with Res Artis forms a partnership between Res Artis and the municipality of Ii, northern Finland. 21
TATSUSHIKO MURATA DIRECTOR, MICRORESIDENCIES NETWORK (JAPAN) 7:30-9:00 BKK TIME -THE IMPORTANCE OF NETWORKS Tatsushiko Murata is co-Founding Director of Youkobo Art Space, an arts residency operating since 1989, with his partner and sculptress, Hiroko Murata. Located in Tokyo, Youkobo Art Space is a place for creative activities of artists who engage in autonomous activities. The program has seen more than 350 artists and researchers participate from 50 countries over the past 30 years. Murata is also the Director of Microresidence Network, a network which supports and promotes the activities of small-scale but flexible creation spaces that are artist-led. Murata is an Honorary Board Member of Res Artis and commenced the Microresidence Network during the Res Artis Conference in Tokyo in 2012. Since 2015 Murata has been focusing on creating a network of arts residencies for young artists/art students in different cultures through collaboration between AIR programs and arts universities. CAROLIN CASEY MEMBERSHIP MANAGER, RES ARTIS (AUSTRALIA) 7:30-9:00 BKK TIME -THE IMPORTANCE OF NETWORKS Carolin looks after all membership matters for Res Artis. She is experienced in arts administration, project and events coordination and customer facing roles within the education, government and private sectors in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. She previously held roles at international arts and cultural exchange organisation, Asialink Arts, and arts media organisation, ArtsHub. Carolin obtained a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Art, University of Auckland and Bachelor of Visual Arts, AUT University, as well as a conjoint Bachelor of Laws and Arts (Maori Studies) from the University of Auckland. ARDA VAN TIGGELEN INDEPENDENT CURATOR, TRANSARTISTS, DUTCHCULTURE (NETHERLANDS) 7:30-9:00 BKK TIME - MAKING THE MONEY WORK Arda van Tiggelen is a Dutch independent curator based in Amsterdam. Arda specializes in commissioning new, site specific works by emerging contemporary visual artists. She worked at the Amsterdam exhibition space W139; at Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany (2017); and a local art initiative called VHDG in Leeuwarden, Friesland. She has shaped the exhibition and artist-in residence program there during and after the city's European Cultural Capital year in 2018. Currently she is developing a future project in Russia: a travelling artist-in-residence through Siberia. As Advisor at TransArtists, Arda gives individual artists and art organisations advice and information about international artist-in-residencies, and investigates the current practices and newly emerging forms of artistic residencies. 22
CAP STUDIO (THAILAND) 9:00-9:30 BKK TIME -THAI PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATION C.A.P studio - Chiang Mai Art on Paper - is a fine art printmaking studio producing limited edition, hand-made prints in collaboration with Thai and international artists. Specialists in a variety of traditional etching and wood block printing techniques, the studio does not make reproductions but instead prints original, custom works drawn by the artist directly on the block or plate. For anyone interested in contemporary prints and observing the operations of a printmaking studio, the doors of C.A.P studio are always open. FREDERIK HARDVENDEL VICE PRESIDENT OF THE RES ARTIS BOARD & DIRECTOR, DANISH ART WORKSHOPS (DENMARK) 9:30-10:30 BKK TIME - LESSONS LEARNT AS A RESULT OF COVID-19 Frederik Hardvendel has a background as a graphic designer and is Director of Danish Art Workshops which also runs the new official Danish residency programme MALTAIR. For many years he has been managing creative enterprises in Denmark and abroad and has been with the consultancy agency Advice, Key Account in Format & Partners, Bangkok as well as Head of Design in Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Frederik works occasionally as a professional advisor to creative companies and has been Chairman at the International Ceramic Research Centre and in the steering committee for interdisciplinary leadership in the Ministry of Culture. He has recently joined the board of Art Hub Copenhagen. PIPSSTUDIO (THAILAND) 10:30-11:00 BKK TIME -THAI COOKING DEMONSTRATION PipsStudio is a food design studio, based in Bangkok, Thailand. Pips Studio specialize in the art of crafting and creating food events, interactive exhibitions and multi-sensory designs and experiences. During the conference they will offer participants the opportunity to attend an interactive cooking demonstration from home. 23
SPEAKERS DAY 6 - FRI. 17 SEPTEMBER 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YASMINE OSTENDORF FOUNDER, GREEN ART LAB ALLIANCE (GALA) (GLOBAL) 6:00-7:30 BKK TIME - SUSTAINABLE ARTS RESIDENCIES Yasmine Ostendorf looks into the rhizomatic ways of fungal strains for models and systems that could replace our broken ones. Hence, she founded the Green Art Lab Alliance (2012). This network of 50 art spaces in Europe, Asia and Latin- America is in pursuit of social and environmental justice. The alliance, that acts like a mycelium, is the fruit of over a decade of research she did across Asia, Latin America and Europe on artists proposing alternative ways of living and working – ways that ultimately shape more sustainable, interconnected and resilient communities. She is the founder of the Nature Research Department at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2017), the Van Eyck Food Lab (2018) and the Future Materials Bank (2020). VICTOR FERNANDEZ CO-DIRECTOR, LA WAYAKA CURRENT (CHILE) 6:00-7:30 BKK TIME -SUSTAINABLE ARTS RESIDENCIES Since 2015, La Wayaka Current has developed site-responsive programs across our planet. Itinerant in nature, their expeditions lead people to experiment, work and develop projects in vast natural environments. Their fluid programs with local communities and partners connect participants to Indigenous and ecological knowledge. La Wayaka Current connects to daily life and the reality of place and engages with relevant issues of our time. The arts residency invite international participants to apply to explore themes remotely in a multitude of ways through fluid, experiential programs developed in desolate and expansive natural environments. C. HUILO CLOVER DIRECTOR & FOUNDER, JAGUAR LUNA CULTURAL ARTS COLLECTIVE (COSTA RICA) 6:00-7:30 BKK TIME - SUSTAINABLE ARTS RESIDENCIES Jaguar Luna Cultural Arts Collective is an ecologically focused residency in southern Costa Rica. Directed and founded by artist, C. Huilo C., the center is a testimony to forest living and economic solutions. Huilo arrived in 2010 and transformed a cow pasture into an elfin complex while bridging together an experience to immerse artists in a solution-oriented program. Huilo, as artist, teacher, farmer and mystic, summons authenticity that is often missed in other residencies. Having a strong background in the art of perception, Huilo’s center provides opportunities for the artist to hear themselves. 24
MARK ATTWOOD FOUNDER & DIRECTOR, THE ARTISTS’ PRESS (SOUTH AFRICA) 6:00-7:30 BKK TIME - SUSTAINABLE ARTS RESIDENCIES Mark Attwood is the founder and director of The Artists’ Press which he established in 1991 after qualifying as a Tamarind Master Printer. For the past thirty years Attwood has worked in collaboration with artists with a focus on publishing lithographs by South African artists. In 2003 the press moved from the centre of Johannesburg to a rural area in Mpumalanga. This has allowed Attwood to work in more environmentally sustainable ways. In the studio everything is printed by hand and when not printing Attwood can be found taking care of his permaculture food forest and vegetable garden which provide artists in residence and his family with much of their food requirements. Generating electricity by solar and a micro hydro plant, recycling, buying local, using sustainable materials, and making charcoal for artists out of invasive plant species are all part of day-to-day studio life. THE GREEN ROOM (FRANCE) (TBC) 6:00-7:30 BKK TIME - SUSTAINABLE ARTS RESIDENCIES Since 2016, The Green Room has been working to support environmental and societal change within the music, performing arts and culture sector in general. Posing the environmental question as its core business, The Green Room develops strategies and co-creates solutions to mitigate the environmental impact of cultural professionals, by rethinking our practices together. MARYAM BAGHERI EXECUTIVE MANAGER, KOOSHK RESIDENCY (IRAN) 7:30-9:00 BKK TIME -CONTESTED TERRITORIES, ISOLATIONISM AND REMOVING BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION Maryam Bagheri holds a BA in English Literature and MBA In Entrepreneurship. She has diverse experience in documentary filmmaking, researching, film archiving, journalism and documentary film distribution. At the moment she works as the Executive Manager of Kooshk Residency based in Tehran. She is one of the board members of Rybondoc center in which the main focus is on documentary cinema. As a documentary film distributor, she has experience in communication and strategic planning. She also used to work as Res Artis MENASA (Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia) Cluster Coordinator. 25
AMANDA ZHANG CO-DIRECTOR, CHINA RESIDENCIES (US/CHINA) 7:30-9:00 BKK TIME -CONTESTED TERRITORIES, ISOLATIONISM AND REMOVING BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION Residing in Massachusetts by ways of the Pacific Northwest and Southwestern China, Amanda Zhang is the Co-Director of China Residencies. Since 2010 in partnership with collaborators, she has curated and stewarded loving space by and for young poets, writers, musicians, technology critics, artists, biologists, organizers, and critical readers within the Asian American and queer & trans people of color communities in the Greater Boston area. She is interested in solidarity economics and the pathways art offer for collective engagement and transformation. She earned her B.A. in Sociology & Economics at Wellesley College. SIM LUTTIN CURATOR & GALLERY MANAGER, ARTS PROJECTS AUSTRALIA & CO-FOUNDER, ART ET AL (AUSTRALIA) 7:30-9:00 BKK TIME -CONTESTED TERRITORIES, ISOLATIONISM AND REMOVING BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION Sim Luttin is the Curator & Gallery Manager at Arts Project Australia. Since 2008, she has fostered innovative curatorial projects and brokered collaborations between artists, commercial galleries, and arts institutions. She has a passion for supporting neurodiverse artists to be seen, represented, and connected in contemporary art and culture sectors. Sim has curated, written, and presented extensively on APA and its artists at national and international galleries, art fairs and conferences. In 2020, Sim co- founded Art et al., an inclusive curated international art platform that commissions and presents collaborations between artists from supported studios, artist peers and arts professionals. Sim holds a Bachelors in Fine Art, RMIT, Masters in Fine Art, Indiana University and Graduate Diploma in Arts Management, UniSA. 26
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