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<p><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><i>The Making Of the New Silk Roads</i></b></span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">”</span>Thirty Plus Renowned International Arts Practitioners & Scholars to Examine Asia’s Latest Cultural Development Trends in ARTHUB’s 4-Day Bangkok Symposium </b> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">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 <i>“</i><b><i>The Making Of the New Silk Roads</i></b>” from Thursday, August 27th, through Sunday, August 30<sup>th</sup>. Hosted and organized by </span></span><b><a href="http://www.arthubasia.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">ArtHub</span></span></a></b><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>,</b> 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. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">To take place at the <b>Bangkok University Gallery (BUG),</b> in collaboration with the <b>Prince Claus Fund, Bangkok University,</b> <b>National Research Center of the Kingdom of Thailand, </b>with additional support from<b> Mondriaan Foundation and ANA (Singapore), </b>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. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">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 <i>Silk Road</i> in its multiple dimensions. Proposing the <i>Silk Road</i> 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 <i>performative</i> responses to Silk Road’s highly constructed symbolisms. Each artist and/or scholar will present a specific artwork/presentation/</span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">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.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">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<b> Davide Quadrio, Defne Ayas, </b>and<b> Ark Fongsmut</b>, with coordination support from <b>Monvilai Rojanatanti. </b></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Participants include: <br></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Agung Kurniawan, </b>artist/curator, Indonesia</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Alexander Ugay,</b> artist, Kazakhstan</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>David Cotterrell,</b> artist, UK</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Els Silvrants,</b> curator, Theatre in Motion, Belgium/China</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Gary Pastrana, </b>artist, Philippines</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Ho Tzu Nyen,</b> artist, Singapore </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Howard Chan,</b> artist/curator, Hong Kong</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Iani Arahmaiani, </b>artist, Indonesia</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Jiang Jun,</b> editor, Urban China, Beijing, China</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Kyong Park,</b> architect, University of California, USA/Korea </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Lina Saneh,</b> artist, Lebanon</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Mu Qian, </b>ethnomusicologist, China <br></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Nikusha Chkhaidze (Nika)</b>, artist, Georgia</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Onno Dirker</b>, artist/researcher, The Netherlands</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Pratchaya Phinthong,</b> artist, Thailand</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Rahraw Omarzad,</b> artist/curator, Afghanistan</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Samah Hijawi</b>, artist, Space Makan, Jordan</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Shaarbek Amankul, </b>artist, bArt Center, Kyrgyzstan</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Stefan Rusu,</b> artist/curator, Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau , Moldavia</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Hakan Topal,</b> artist, xurban collective, Turkey/USA</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Zoe Butt,</b> curator, Long March Project, Beijing/Southeast Asia (sharing work by artists Erin Gleeson, Rattana Vandy, Nguyen Trinh Thi)<br>
</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Seph Rodney</b>, Ph.D. candidate, University of London- Birkbeck College, UK</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; ">
<span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Veronica Sekules,</b> Head of Education at the Sainsbury Centre, UK</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Adeline Ooi,</b> curator/writer, RogueArt, Malaysia</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Agung Hujatnikajennong,</b> artist, Indonesia</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Le Huy Hoang, </b>artist, Vietnam/Cambodia<b> </b><br>
</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Supersudaca,</b> architects/artists collective, South America/The Netherlands</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; ">
<span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Edwin Zwakman </b>and<b> Liu Gang</b>, artists, the Netherlands/China</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>Speedism</b>, artist collective, Belgium/Germany</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">And more !</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10px; "><b>Side events</b> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">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 </span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><a href="http://www.arthubasia.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); "><font color="#0000ff"><u>www.arthubasia.org</u></font></a>.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>About Arthub</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b></b></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">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.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>About Bangkok University Gallery (BUG)</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b></b></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">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</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b>About NRCT<br></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><b></b>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.</span></span> </p>
<span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><b>Symposium Contacts:</b></span></p></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "></span></span></span><p style="text-align: left; ">
<span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Mr Davide Quadrio, </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-size: small; "><a href="mailto:defne@arthubasia.org" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); "><font color="#0000ff"><u>davide at arthubasia.org</u></font></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Ms Defne Ayas, </span></span><a href="mailto:defne%20at%20arthubasia.org" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">defne at arthubasia.org</span></span></a></p>
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