Transcending Borders with Contemporary Art
Tanat Teeradakorn - Gasworks Residency
The Institutum is delighted to announce Tanat Teeradakorn's residency at Gasworks London, 8 April to 24 June 2024. Tanat's residency is part of a 5-year residency partnership between The Institutum, and Gasworks London.
This is a new and unique opportunity that enables Gasworks to engage with cutting edge artists working in the region, providing them with a platform to undertake research, develop new work and forge new connections in London.
Tanat Teeradakorn is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, DJ, and graphic designer. Working across multiple mediums including sound, music, performance, text, printmaking, merchandise design, and installation, he often creates immersive and all-encompassing situations where the audience plays an integral part.
During the residency at Gasworks, Tanat will undertake on-site research across multiple historical locations in London, focusing on the subject of the Glorious Revolution in England (the events of 1688–89 that resulted in the deposition of James II and the accession of his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III), and the story behind the creation of the Magna Carta (June 1215). Concurrently, he will develop new work from the research, combining it with the historical trajectory between Thailand and the UK, and their current socio-political contexts.
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SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia
Co-published by The Institutum and Weiss Publishing and supported by Art Outreach SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia is a beautifully illustrated, clothbound compendium presenting significant contemporary art in Southeast Asia across generations and borders.
This publication provides a unique and timely opportunity to introduce an international audience to the dynamic and multifarious artistic practices of Southeast Asia as they are connected to major themes of interest, such as community engagement and organisation, social and political commentary, gender and identity, environment and ecology and material traditions and processes.
Edited by Ute Meta Bauer, Karin G. Oen and Boon Hui Tan, this book fills a noticeable void in the landscape of arts publications, serving as an essential guide to artists working in the region.
Selected by an international curatorial committee, the work of 60 different artists or collectives will be highlighted by concise introductory texts as well as images of significant works.
State of the Arts - Daisy Parris & Wells Fray-Smith
Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far. Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The work is imbued with the sensitivity of one who feels everything, taking us through unflinching narratives and moments of reflection and tenderness. An ode to human existence, their work is sometimes silent, sometimes savage, with paintings that construct self portraits of personal battles and triumphs in a fast moving yet contemplative assault on the canvas.
Daisy Parris (b. 1993, Kent, UK) lives and works in London, UK and holds BA (Hons) Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, London. Recent exhibitions include Pain For Home, M+B, Los Angeles, USA (solo), Star-Studded Canopy, Sim Smith, London, UK (solo), Talk Like Strangers, with Nico Stone, Sebastian Helling and Jesse Littlefield, Part 2 Gallery, Oakland, California, What Kind Of Spirit Is This?, Sim Smith, London, UK and Poem, Las Palmas Project, Lisbon, Portugal.
Singapore Art Week 2022
As part of Singapore Art Week 2022 (SAW), held from 14 to 23 January 2022, The Institutum presents the continuation of our State of the Arts series.
This installment commissioned for SAW will feature the following regional and local artists:
Cultural Medallion recipient Amanda Heng
National Arts Council Young Artist Awardee (2020) Chen Yanyun
Singaporean artists Robert Zhao and anGie seah
Filipino artist Pio Abad
State of the Arts - Alex Prager & Wells Fray-Smith
Alex Prager (b. 1979, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) is a photographer and filmmaker who creates elaborately staged scenes that draw inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture, and street photography. She deliberately casts and stages all of her works, merging past and contemporary sources to create a sense of ambiguity. Her work is in multiple international public and private collections, and she has won numerous awards including an Emmy in 2012.
Kent Chan - Gasworks Residency
The Institutum is delighted to announce Kent Chan's residency at Gasworks London, 11 April to 27 June 2022. Kent's residency is part of a 5-year residency partnership between The Institutum, and Gasworks London.
This is a new and unique opportunity that enables Gasworks to engage with cutting edge artists working in the region, providing them with a platform to undertake research, develop new work and forge new connections in London.
Kent Chan is an artist, curator and filmmaker based in the Netherlands and Singapore. Chan’s artistic practice is centred around fiction, writing and cinematic research, with a particular interest in the ‘tropical imagination’ and the relationship between heat and art.
During the residency, Chan will develop a speculative project that explores the potential of future societies after the loss of climate demarcation.
Past Event:
Open to Interpretation
Singapore Art Week 2021 – 22nd to 30th January 2021
The Asian Art Institutum (AAI) and Gasworks London are proud to present Open to Interpretation, a series of five short videos by five local artists.
