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SUMMARY:Open Call for Applications: Art and cultural practitioners who are facilitators or organizers of art and cultural events/projects (from Southeast Asia)
DESCRIPTION:The Professional Exchange Program is to support practitioners who are facilitators or organizers of art and cultural events/projects (including artists) from Southeast Asia to have the chance for a multi-week visit and exchange in Taiwan\, hosted by an individual or an organization who has the related experiences and skills to help them develop the visiting practitioner’ personal and professional goals. The visiting practitioner also contributes to the host and art community of Taiwan by giving reflective observations and suggestions. \nTaiwan Art Space Alliance\, Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation\, Hyper Wave and Mekong Cultural Hub also facilitates coordination and logistics of the exchange as needed. \nEligibility and criteria:  \nThis Program is designed for Art and cultural practitioner who are: \n\nfacilitators or organizers of art and cultural events/projects (including artists)\nfrom Southeast Asia ( Cambodia\, Laos\, Myanmar\, Thailand\, Vietnam\, Philippines\, and Singapore\, Malaysia)\n\n\nhave been working at least for two years in arts and culture\ninterested in exploring and observing art and culture ecosystem in Taiwan\ncomfortable to publicly share their reflection or experience in art or culture through writing\nhaving publicly published articles related to arts and culture.\n\nHow does the program work? \nOrganizers will provide the visiting practitioner : \n– Provide Accommodation (Studio/shared creative space) during the Program. \n– Local transportation fee (up to the given limit based on actual expenses and with a given maximum NT2000 for 15 days). \n– A round-trip economy class ticket. \n– NT$ 6\,000 for Living per month. (about USD$180) \n– NT$ 16\,000 for written creation (about USD$480) \n– Visiting trip\, connecting practitioner to cultural sites. \nThe visiting practitioner is required to: \n– Give presentations in separate sessions of the 2024 Res Artist Conference and 2024 TASA Annual Meeting with Southeast Asia Professional Exchange Platform\, which topic is regarding “Arts Residencies in Taiwan Today” and assess the current landscape of Art Residency in Taiwan and explore future opportunities. \n– Meeting consultation on cultural policies organized by TAEF and attend Yushan Forum as Invited Guest. \n– Produce 1 article ( 1.5 pages in English) about the observation of Taiwan Art-in-Residence now. The article will be presented in the publication platform about the AiR\, and on the official website of TASA. \n– Produce 1 article ( 2 pages in English) is to respond to The New Southbound Policy by Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation (e.g.cultural exchange or policy comparison.)\, the article will be presented in the publication of Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation \n– Participate one workshop \nHow can you apply for this program: \nWe only accept online applications. Please click on the following link: \nhttps://forms.gle/weG7PvQmtv3Vz1K79 \nfill out the application before the deadline (listed above). Applicants are required to upload personal information\, a resident plan\, and the contact information of your referee. \nShould you have any questions about the 2024 TASA Open Call for Applications or submitting your proposal\, or need assistance with access requirements\, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via email: tasatw@gmail.com \nThis program responds to needs and requests from practitioners in the result of the review\, which will be launched on the Facebook page and official website of TASA on June 25th 2024. \nOur Organizers: \nTaiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation founded in 2018\, the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation (TAEF) is the first policy-oriented think tank in Taiwan focusing on Southeast Asian and South Asian affairs and facilitating Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy (NSP). In the spirit of the NSP\, the TAEF aims to promote comprehensive ties between Taiwan and the ASEAN countries\, South Asian countries\, as well as Australia and New Zealand through facilitating cooperation and exchanges in five major fields – think tanks\, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society’s connectivity\, young leaders initiatives\, regional resilience\, and cultural affairs – to consolidate a sense of regional community in Asia and establish long-term multifaceted partnerships. \nTaiwan Art Space Alliance \, (hereinafter “TASA”) entitled TASA was established in 2016. It integrates dozens of art villages and art spaces across Taiwan and holds regular meetings every year across Taiwan to discuss the position and role of artists in residence (AiR) in contemporary art through an annual series of meetings and lectures. TASA was to serve as a platform for the exchange and integration of resources among artists in residence (AiR) and art spaces throughout Taiwan. In addition\, by connecting organizations and planning events\, TASA endeavors to improve and strengthen the overall environment for art and culture in Taiwan\, while attracting new energy in promoting international cooperation and expanding the global network among art institutions. \nOur Partner: \nMekong Cultural Hub (MCH)\, MCH’ s mission is to empower diverse cultural practitioners to bring their visions for an inclusive\, sustainable Mekong Region to life. Since 2018\, we have connected more than 150 practitioners from the region for professional exchange\, co-creation and collaboration. \nMCH works with people whose own work is at the intersection of arts and society. We initiate projects and work on collaborations all around Asia. Our priority focus countries are Cambodia\, Laos\, Myanmar\, Taiwan\, Thailand and Vietnam. \nIts aim is to develop and connect resources and experience from across the region\, building bridges and creating spaces for reflection and innovation so emerging artists and arts leaders can collectively create\, influence\, and transform the contexts in which they are living and working. \nHost for the Program: \nHyper Wave (Yilan 宜蘭)\, which is Located in the center of Luodong City\, Wave Space is the first contemporary art exhibition and residency space in Yilan. They hope to inject more art and cultural energy\, open up Yilan’s international connections\, and bring in outstanding artists from home and abroad so that more people will recognize Yilan’s Luodong’s unique humanistic flavor. The art group ‘Hyper Wave’ began with artists selected by the Ministry of Culture’s 2020 ‘MIT’ project. The name originates from the mutation and uncertainty of contemporary art\, positioning themselves as artistic ronin. They place the characteristics of contemporary art creation within environments to engage in artistic dialogues. \nSupported by: \nMinistry of Culture \nMinistry of Foreign Affairs \nNational Culture and Arts Foundation \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/open-call-for-applications-art-and-cultural-practitioners-who-are-facilitators-or-organizers-of-art-and-cultural-events-projects-from-southeast-asia/
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SUMMARY:There’s no Place: Call & Response Embroidery Workshops with Jakkai Siributr
DESCRIPTION:Renowned artist Jakkai Siributr’s new long-term project\, There’s No Place is a collaborative ‘call-and response’ embroidery piece that creates an ongoing dialogue between the displaced ethnic Shan communities of Thailand—notably that of Koung Jor Shan Refugee Camp (KJSRC) and those served by Shan Youth Power—and viewers around the world. KJSRC is an unofficial camp on temple land\, that was established in 2002 when about 500 refugees fleeing from fighting between the Shan State Army-South and government troops arrived in Thailand. Many have called the camp home for almost two decades\, and a new generation born within its boundaries\, has known no other home and remain effectively stateless. Education and livelihood initiatives can help refugees thrive\, retain dignity\, contribute to the economy of their host country. But unable to partake in the formal workforce\, Siributr invites the residents of the KJSRC to become his primary collaborators in this project\, offering them work within the perimeters of the camp\, and compensating them with daily wages. Siributr’s collaborators are now embroidering their stories—how they came to be there; their ideas of home; their hopes\, and their fears. \nBuilding upon the artist’s earlier work on displacement\, There’s No Place is a participatory project exploring identity\, belonging\, and ‘home\,’ inspired by a personal attempt to reckon with the protracted refugee situation on the Thai-Burma border. Following a series of interactive sessions in various locations\, on 17 August there will be an opportunity for the public to meet Siributr and contribute to this project during two sessions to be held at SEA Junction at 10-12am (1st session) and at 1.30-3.30pm (2nd session). Anyone is welcome to participate in these ‘Response’ embroidery workshop sessions by embroidering images or texts to create a dialogue between themselves and the stateless Shan ethnic minority group. A maximum of 20 participants per session will embroider on the same piece of cloth that has been previously embroidered by the Shan community. \nThis work aims to explore the conditions of refugeehood in a way that goes beyond the vocabulary of aid\, help\, and development: By unearthing how we ourselves are heirs to the stories of refugees\, this work becomes a meaningful way to indict today’s neglect. The project also looks at the audience—not as a passive receiver of predefined content—but as an active member of a constituent body\, whom the textile provokes and inspires. Through this\, and through his own embroideries that is interspersed throughout the final textile as a connective tissue\, the artist is addressing issues such as ownership and power dynamics\, collaboration\, and economies of exchange. There is implicit here\, an expressed urgency to move away from the usual binary used to describe refugees\, migrants\, and the host country: that one either lives a temporary life in a refugee camp\, or that one becomes a citizen with a permanent residency. In reality\, there’s a huge spectrum between those two binaries. \nOver time\, these perspectives are brought together to present a contemporary\, collaborative\, textile installation that blurs the line between sculpture\, craft\, and advocacy. There’s no Place was unveiled for the first time in 2023 at CHAT (Centre for Heritage Arts & Textiles ) in Hong Kong as part of the artist retrospective ‘Everybody Wanna Be Happy’. The work has also been selected for ‘The Spirits of Maritime Crossing’ – Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia\, which is still ongoing. The project is continuing and the two sessions at SEA Junction will contribute to further enrich the textile installation There’s no Place. \nAt the workshop sessions\, all materials will be provided. No prior knowledge of sewing or embroidery is required. The artist will be onsite to discuss the project and share his experiences with embroidery. \nArtist Bio\nJakkai Siributr is known primarily for his textile and embroidery works\, and his installations increasingly offer an element of audience participation. Siributr is concerned with the unofficial histories that have been written out of Thai accounts as well as intersections between personal and regional histories. He creates a delicate tension between his subject matter — ongoing conflict driven by nationalistic discrimination against minorities — and the visual sensuality of his chosen form and materials. More recently he has begun to work with various communities through embroidery workshops including refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border and the USA. He also worked with the Thai Government on a social developmental program in remote areas of Mozambique. Studying and residing in the USA for nearly ten years\, Siributr earned his BA in Textiles/Fine Arts\, at Indiana University Bloomington in 1992 and MS in Printed Textile Design at the Philadelphia University in 1996. He was an instructor at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts from 1996-2003. See further Instagram @jakkai \nFor information/reservation for our events please email: info@seajunction.org or phone/wa: +66970024140\nNB: The event is free\, but donations are welcome to support SEA Junction activities. \n  \n \nOrganizer: \nSEA Junction\, established under the Thai non-profit organization Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA)\, aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions\, from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 407 and 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK\, BTS National Stadium)\, SEA Junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students\, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information\, see www.seajunction.org\, join the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/1693058870976440/ and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @seajunction. \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/theres-no-place-call-response-embroidery-workshops-with-jakkai-siributr/
LOCATION:SEA Junction\, 4th floor\, BACC
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:There’s no Place: Call & Response Embroidery Workshops with Jakkai Siributr
DESCRIPTION:Renowned artist Jakkai Siributr’s new long-term project\, There’s No Place is a collaborative ‘call-and response’ embroidery piece that creates an ongoing dialogue between the displaced ethnic Shan communities of Thailand—notably that of Koung Jor Shan Refugee Camp (KJSRC) and those served by Shan Youth Power—and viewers around the world. KJSRC is an unofficial camp on temple land\, that was established in 2002 when about 500 refugees fleeing from fighting between the Shan State Army-South and government troops arrived in Thailand. Many have called the camp home for almost two decades\, and a new generation born within its boundaries\, has known no other home and remain effectively stateless. Education and livelihood initiatives can help refugees thrive\, retain dignity\, contribute to the economy of their host country. But unable to partake in the formal workforce\, Siributr invites the residents of the KJSRC to become his primary collaborators in this project\, offering them work within the perimeters of the camp\, and compensating them with daily wages. Siributr’s collaborators are now embroidering their stories—how they came to be there; their ideas of home; their hopes\, and their fears. \nBuilding upon the artist’s earlier work on displacement\, There’s No Place is a participatory project exploring identity\, belonging\, and ‘home\,’ inspired by a personal attempt to reckon with the protracted refugee situation on the Thai-Burma border. Following a series of interactive sessions in various locations\, on 17 August there will be an opportunity for the public to meet Siributr and contribute to this project during two sessions to be held at SEA Junction at 10-12am (1st session) and at 1.30-3.30pm (2nd session). Anyone is welcome to participate in these ‘Response’ embroidery workshop sessions by embroidering images or texts to create a dialogue between themselves and the stateless Shan ethnic minority group. A maximum of 20 participants per session will embroider on the same piece of cloth that has been previously embroidered by the Shan community. \nThis work aims to explore the conditions of refugeehood in a way that goes beyond the vocabulary of aid\, help\, and development: By unearthing how we ourselves are heirs to the stories of refugees\, this work becomes a meaningful way to indict today’s neglect. The project also looks at the audience—not as a passive receiver of predefined content—but as an active member of a constituent body\, whom the textile provokes and inspires. Through this\, and through his own embroideries that is interspersed throughout the final textile as a connective tissue\, the artist is addressing issues such as ownership and power dynamics\, collaboration\, and economies of exchange. There is implicit here\, an expressed urgency to move away from the usual binary used to describe refugees\, migrants\, and the host country: that one either lives a temporary life in a refugee camp\, or that one becomes a citizen with a permanent residency. In reality\, there’s a huge spectrum between those two binaries. \nOver time\, these perspectives are brought together to present a contemporary\, collaborative\, textile installation that blurs the line between sculpture\, craft\, and advocacy. There’s no Place was unveiled for the first time in 2023 at CHAT (Centre for Heritage Arts & Textiles ) in Hong Kong as part of the artist retrospective ‘Everybody Wanna Be Happy’. The work has also been selected for ‘The Spirits of Maritime Crossing’ – Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia\, which is still ongoing. The project is continuing and the two sessions at SEA Junction will contribute to further enrich the textile installation There’s no Place. \nAt the workshop sessions\, all materials will be provided. No prior knowledge of sewing or embroidery is required. The artist will be onsite to discuss the project and share his experiences with embroidery. \nArtist Bio\nJakkai Siributr is known primarily for his textile and embroidery works\, and his installations increasingly offer an element of audience participation. Siributr is concerned with the unofficial histories that have been written out of Thai accounts as well as intersections between personal and regional histories. He creates a delicate tension between his subject matter — ongoing conflict driven by nationalistic discrimination against minorities — and the visual sensuality of his chosen form and materials. More recently he has begun to work with various communities through embroidery workshops including refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border and the USA. He also worked with the Thai Government on a social developmental program in remote areas of Mozambique. Studying and residing in the USA for nearly ten years\, Siributr earned his BA in Textiles/Fine Arts\, at Indiana University Bloomington in 1992 and MS in Printed Textile Design at the Philadelphia University in 1996. He was an instructor at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts from 1996-2003. See further Instagram @jakkai \nFor information/reservation for our events please email: info@seajunction.org or phone/wa: +66970024140\nNB: The event is free\, but donations are welcome to support SEA Junction activities. \n  \n \nOrganizer: \nSEA Junction\, established under the Thai non-profit organization Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA)\, aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions\, from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 407 and 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK\, BTS National Stadium)\, SEA Junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students\, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information\, see www.seajunction.org\, join the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/1693058870976440/ and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @seajunction. \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/theres-no-place-call-response-embroidery-workshops-with-jakkai-siributr-2/
LOCATION:SEA Junction\, 4th floor\, BACC
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