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CROSSING THE DATELINE
Organised by Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
BACC Project Sponsors by King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, IQ LAB,
Mondriaan Fund and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
16 March - 4 June 2017
Main Gallery, 9th floor
Opening Ceremony on Thursday 23 March 2017 at 18.30 hrs.
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre and the group of intermediate artists together foster a contemporary art
exhibition which
crosses the boundary of space, time and culture in order to challenge audience experience.
Pertaining to the concept of time and travelling - flying eight hours on an airplane that reaches cruising
speeds of 920 kilometers
per hour, time will be ten nanoseconds slower (due to an inertial frame of
reference). Time dilation is everyone’s daily experience.
Time would slow down or get faster in relation to
time in mind. Todays, people’s devious and distorted perception of time is
socially constructed caused by
current mode of communication.
Personal awareness of time is tainted by the given perception and distorted mode of communication that is
constructed. Human
understanding is shifted from reality-based interpretation to autonomous association
that gave birth to the truth examiner so
truth-illusion-virtual time-virtual reality is recalibrated. To transcend
the boundary of time, perception, belief, even society is
necessary for ones to understand current incidents.
Crossing has rendered the binary condition: before and after, old and new,
similar and dissimilar, convincing
and unconvincing. An in-between situation is arising during such crossing. This in-between
condition occurs
when one falters between accepting and opposing to prior understanding.
Artists: Carol Hepper (USA), Nelleke Beltjens (Netherlands / USA), Hedwig Brouckaert (Belgium / USA),
Suparirk Kanitwaranun (Thailand), Pasutt Kanrattanasutra (Thailand), Komson Knookiew (Thailand),
Bussayamas Nandawan (Thailand), Panu Suaysuwan (Thailand), Pitiwat Somthai in collaboration and
Vanida Pornsombatpaiboon (Thailand)
Guest Curator: Pitiwat Somthai |
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