[Nettime-ro] The Making Of the New Silk Roads_Exhibition&Symposium_Bangkok

[stefan rusu <suhebator@gmail.com>]

*The Making Of the New Silk Roads*

*”Thirty Plus Renowned International Arts Practitioners & Scholars to
Examine Asia’s Latest Cultural Development Trends in ARTHUB’s 4-Day Bangkok
Symposium *

More than thirty renowned scholars, artists, and practitioners in visual
arts, performance, and other cultural fields from around the world will
gather in Bangkok to discuss and reflect on the dynamic, ongoing echoes of
the ancient trading route Silk Road and its multiple dimensions in a
four-day symposium titled *“**The Making Of the New Silk Roads*” from
Thursday, August 27th, through Sunday, August 30th. Hosted and organized by
*ArtHub <http://www.arthubasia.org/>**,* a Hong Kong based non-profit
foundation dedicated to art creation in China and the rest of Asia, the
symposium aims to reassess the complex interconnections within Asia’s
cultural and artistic spectrum at the beginning of the 21st century.  To
take place at the *Bangkok University Gallery (BUG),* in collaboration with
the *Prince Claus Fund, Bangkok University,* *National Research Center of
the Kingdom of Thailand, *with additional support from* Mondriaan Foundation
and ANA (Singapore), *the summit will feature Arthub’s “collaborative
intelligence” participants from across Asia including China, Thailand,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Turkey, Georgia,
Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and beyond, along with additional
speakers from the prestigious Prince Claus Fund Network Partnership Program.


This four-day program will not only feature lively discussions of shared
experiences among peers, examining the recent rapid developments in Asia,
and among its cast of characters, issues, and mediums, but also provide an
exciting forum, reflecting on the dynamic, ongoing echoes of the ancient
trading route of the *Silk Road* in its multiple dimensions. Proposing
the *Silk
Road* as a variable metaphor for instable connections and uncertain
achievements, and taking it as a departure point for continued reflections
upon Asia’s cultural landscape, Arthub aims to carry this out by inviting
artists, curators, and cultural thinkers from a wide array of viewpoints to
go beyond a recitation of ideas or positions, and instead to bring
presenters, participants, and audiences together as they explore, challenge,
articulate, or nourish the possibilities of *performative* responses to Silk
Road’s highly constructed symbolisms. Each artist and/or scholar will
present a specific artwork/presentation/installation that not only implies a
possible story-telling about a specific condition from his/her respective,
particular context such as issues of cultural circulation, social/political
activism, and the marketplace) but also that tests the idea of Silk Road’s
potency for cultural hybridity across Asia in general.

To be presented in the form of a series of newly commissioned works
including installations, lecture-performances, TV shows, radio interviews
and publications, this collaborative symposium will put a special emphasis
on process-oriented, and research-, dialogue-based artistic positions across
Asia. Through the means of commissioning new responses, establishing
dialogue months prior to the symposium, and enabling an alternative live
context for investigation of dynamic cultural issues by its very own very
actors, Arthub is committed to inspiring new forms of artistic and aesthetic
experiments in China and rest of Asia. Arthub also aims to re-examine the
contested idea of the cultural encounter with the "other," and turn these
peer-to-peer encounters into a generator of new impulses for the analysis of
complex historical processes within the cultural systems in Asia. The
symposium will be video recorded, and a film + catalogue will be produced.
The outcome will be geared towards touring as an exhibition later in 2010.
Yet as with the symposium’s multiplicity of strategies, the resulting
exhibition will be open for constant negotiation and reformulation. The
symposium is organized by Arthub’s* Davide Quadrio, Defne Ayas, *and* Ark
Fongsmut*, with coordination support from *Monvilai Rojanatanti. *

*Participants include:
*

*Agung Kurniawan, *artist/curator, Indonesia

*Alexander Ugay,* artist, Kazakhstan

*David Cotterrell,* artist, UK

*Els Silvrants,* curator, Theatre in Motion, Belgium/China

*Gary Pastrana, *artist, Philippines

*Ho Tzu Nyen,* artist, Singapore

*Howard Chan,* artist/curator, Hong Kong

*Iani Arahmaiani, *artist, Indonesia

*Jiang Jun,* editor, Urban China, Beijing, China

*Kyong Park,* architect, University of California, USA/Korea

*Lina Saneh,* artist, Lebanon

*Mu Qian, *ethnomusicologist, China

*Nikusha Chkhaidze (Nika)*, artist, Georgia

*Onno Dirker*, artist/researcher, The Netherlands

*Pratchaya Phinthong,* artist, Thailand

*Rahraw Omarzad,* artist/curator, Afghanistan

*Samah Hijawi*, artist, Space Makan, Jordan

*Shaarbek Amankul, *artist, bArt Center, Kyrgyzstan

*Stefan Rusu,* artist/curator, Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau ,
Moldavia

*Hakan Topal,* artist, xurban collective, Turkey/USA

*Zoe Butt,* curator, Long March Project, Beijing/Southeast Asia (sharing
work by artists Erin Gleeson, Rattana Vandy, Nguyen Trinh Thi)

*Seph Rodney*, Ph.D. candidate, University of London- Birkbeck College, UK

*Veronica Sekules,* Head of Education at the Sainsbury Centre, UK

*Adeline Ooi,* curator/writer, RogueArt, Malaysia

*Agung Hujatnikajennong,* artist, Indonesia

*Le Huy Hoang, *artist, Vietnam/Cambodia* *

*Supersudaca,* architects/artists collective, South America/The Netherlands

*Edwin Zwakman *and* Liu Gang*, artists, the Netherlands/China

*Speedism*, artist collective, Belgium/Germany

And more !

*Side events*

In addition to the Symposium, Arthub, BUG and NRCT will organize side
activities, including nightly video art screenings as part of this
programme. Participants aprovide a selection of video work coming from their
countries. The video program will be available end of July.  Details about
the Symposium and related events are available at
*www.arthubasia.org*<http://www.arthubasia.org/>
.

*About Arthub*

**

Supporting contemporary art creation in China and rest of Asia, Arthub
serves as a creative think tank, a collaborative production lab as well as a
research platform for new art and ideas, cutting-edge projects and dialogue
within the visual arts and new media. Inspired by the opportunities
generated by the collective intelligence of the thinkers across media in the
region, Arthub is committed to furthering experimentation,
knowledge-production and diversity among dedicated artists, art
professionals and arts organizations. Arthub’s mission is to 1. identify,
provide, and enable intellectual, strategic, logistical and financial means
for ambitious new artistic projects and by Chinese and Asian contemporary
artists; 2. actively facilitate an informal network of contemporary artists,
art professionals and writers, both within the region and beyond- starting
first with an Asia-wide exchange platform and community, where different
ideas and individuals merge, interact and motivate each other, 3. act as a
catalyzer of the same people who want to share and initiate ideas for
projects including knowledge production, symposia, and publications; and 4.
continue to develop new and informed audiences through educational
initiatives. Arthub is registered a non-for-profit foundation in Hong Kong,
with three directors based across Asia.

*About Bangkok University Gallery (BUG)*

**

Bangkok University Gallery (BUG) is a leading non-profit gallery based in
the university focusing on contemporary art.  It is the most dynamic gallery
in Bangkok with almost a hundred of national and international exhibitions
since its inauguration. BUG has just celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2006
and moved to the new building

*About NRCT
*

**One of the major functions of the National Research Council of Thailand
(NRCT) is to coordinate and promote cooperation with international
researchers and research institutes. The promotion of foreign researchers to
conduct research in Thailand accordingly has been performing since 1963
under the control of NRCT Regulation of the Permission of Foreign
Researchers to Conduct Research in Thailand.

*Symposium Contacts:*

Mr Davide Quadrio, *davide at arthubasia.org* <defne@arthubasia.org>

Ms Defne Ayas, defne at arthubasia.org <defne%20at%20arthubasia.org>

**
*Thanks for being part of our community of friends – and thanks for helping
us spread the word!

*ArtHub*
A not-for-profit organization supporting the contemporary art creation in
China and rest of Asia
Correspondence address:
Unit 201 – Building 7
50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai 200060
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