As part of the exhibition What is not visible is not invisible: Selection from the 23 French Regiona Collections of
Contemporary Art (FRAC), the BACC exhibition and education department present the Master Lecture conducted by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a renowned Thai artist with his works in the collections of FRACs and won many awards
from theprestigious Cannes Film Festival including the film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives in 2010. In this
lecture, the artist will share milieus behind the works, thoughts, process, and experience focusing on films in the direction
of art. The artist will share memory, social, and politic aspects embedded in his works and also join in conversations with
the invited curator Gridthiya Gaweewong who presented and worked with the artist from the early years.
Master Lecture :
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Invited curator in conversation: Gridthiya Gaweewong
Wednesday 2 August 2017
at 16.00 - 19.00 hrs.
Multi-Function Room, 1st floor
*Lecture is conducted in Thai with English simulteneous translation,
No RSVP required.
Operated by BACC Exhibition and Education Department.
For more information, please contact [email protected] Tel.02 214 6630 ext. 519
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About artist and invited curator
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b.1970, Khon Kaen) grew up in Khon Kaen. Graduated from Khon Kaen University and received
a bachelor's degree in architecture and master's degree of fine arts in film making the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He began making film and video shorts in 1994, and completed his first feature in 2000. He has also mounted exhibitions and installations in many countries since 1998 won numerous awards from various prestigious platforms. Often non-linear, with
a strong sense of dislocation, his works deal with memory, subtly addressed personal politics and social issues.
Gridthiya Gaweewong
Gridthiya Gaweewong graduated from Art Administration from School of the Art Institution of Chicago, USA, she later founded
arts organization Project 304 in 1996, and is currently Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok. Her
curatorial projects have addressed issues of social transformation confronting artists from Thailand and beyond. Gaweewong
has organized exhibitions and events including Underconstruction (Tokyo, 2000 - 2002), Politics of Fun at the Haus der
Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2005), the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (1997 - 2007) (co-founded with Apichatpong
Weerasethakul), Saigon Open City in Saigon (Vietnam, 2006 - 07) (with Rirkrit Tiravanija), and Unreal Asia, Oberhausen
International Short Film Festival (2010) among others.
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