The Japan Foundation Asia Center will present "The Breathing of Maps" in Thailand in January 2020.
The history of modernization in Asia is in part a history of confrontation with the West. As a symbolic product of the modernization process, maps reveal the dramatic changes in national sovereignty, culture, economics, and folkways that transpired in Asia under the influence of the West. Maps have functioned as a visual means of generating the concepts of space and community that distinguish modern society.
Thai historian Thongchai Winichakul posits that the maps produced by modern geographers have been instrumental in forming the spatial conceptions and community (i.e. national) consciousness of Thailand as a modern nation-state. He uses the term "geo-body" to describe this concept.
Treating the geo-bodies defined by maps as dynamic, not static entities, the exhibition examines the social transformations occurring in the layers of time that lie between maps as it explores the "living geo-bodies" shaped by the ongoing accumulation of human activity.
Accompanying the exhibition will be related artworks, performances, and lectures by artists and scholars from Southeast Asia and Japan based on their own unique research into the history, culture, politics, economics, folkways, and other social phenomena of their respective countries.
The program is a reconstruction of the exhibition entitled "The Breathing of Maps" held at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] in December 2018- March 2019 and Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in July 2019.
Event Details
| Dates & Venues |
Chiang Mai Bangkok |
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| Inqiries |
[Bangkok] MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum [Tokyo] |
*Please check the following site for more details.
The Japan Foundation, Bangkok
Curators
Mark Teh (Member of Five Arts Centre, Malaysia)
Kumiko Idaka (Independent Curator, Japan)
Advisor
Gridthiya Gaweewong (Artistc Director, Jim Thompson Art Center, Thailand)
Lecture & Lecture Performance & Symposium
Ho Rui An (Artist, Singapore)
Ho Tzu Nyen (Artist, Singapore)
Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina (Artist, Indonesia)
Monthatip Suksopha (Director of Wandering Moon Performing Group, Thailand)
Yudai Kamisato (Theater Director, Japan)
Charnvit Kasetsiri (Historian, Thailand)
Thanavi Chotpradit (Art Historian, Thailand)
Thongchai Winichakul (Historian, USA/Thailand)
Masashi Kohara (Curator/Critic, Japan)
Video Screening
Carlos Celdran (Artist, Philippines)
Farish A. Noor (Historian/Philosopher, Singapore/Malaysia)
Janet Pillai (Sociologist, Malaysia)
Events Schedule
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Jan 25, 2020 (Sat.), at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
1:00 p.m. [Special Tour]
Gridthiya Gaweewong, San Kamphaeng 101: special temple, food, craft & Studio tour
*To sign up
E-mail: booking_acd@jfbkk.or.th
(lunch 200THB)7:00 p.m. [Lecture Performance]
Charnvit Kasetsiri, An Imperial Sake Cup and I
Directed by Ka-ge Teerawat Mulvilai, Nonthawat Numbenchaphol & Anan KrudphetJan 26, 2020 (Sun.), at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
Moderated by Sing Suwannakij
2:00 p.m. [Talk]
Thanavi Chotpradit, Map, Mourning and Monument3:00 p.m. [Talk]
Masashi Kohara, The 1903 World's Natives Building and Exposition -
Jan 27, 2020 (Mon.), at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
7:00 p.m. [Lecture Performance]
Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, Name Laundering -
Jan 28, 2020 (Tue.), at The Wandering Moon Theatre & Thepsiri Art House GoogleMap
6:00 p.m. [Talk & Drink Event]
Yudai Kamisato, Stranger Encounters: Between Ayutthaya and Awamori8:00 p.m. [Lecture Performance]
Monthatip Suksopha, Shadow World -
Jan 29, 2020 (Wed.), at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
7:00 p.m. [Lecture Performance]
Ho Rui An, Asia the Unmiraculous -
Jan 30, 2020 (Thu.), at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
7:00 p.m. [Lecture performance]
Ho Tzu Nyen, The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia -
Feb 1, 2020 (Sat.) at Ayara Hall, Jim Thompson House
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. [Symposium]
Between Geo-Bodies and the Unforgetting
Thongchai Winichakul, Irwan Ahmett, Tita Salina, Kumiko Idaka, Mark Teh
This is the certified project of beyond 2020 program.
