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The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality2002-2003Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USABronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USAMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Illinois, USAArt Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Circulated by New York based Independent Curators International (ICI), more than 10,000 pieces of Pha Khao Mar Uncle Pan cloth were sent to four different museums in the United States and Canada for a touring gift-themed exhibition originated by the […]

SUPER(M)ART2002Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France For the debut show at the Palais de Tokyo and the premiere of SUPER(M)ART, Old Navin, a poor retired artist has travelled to Paris in 2052 after winning the lottery, where he plans to visit the famous art establishments only to find them all closed down. Instead he meets Curatorman, a slick and youthful entrepreneur […]

SUPER(M)ART2002Curatorman Inc. For such a typically upbeat artist, Navin Production’s SUPER(M)ART series, which began with the 2002 installation at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, was a pessimistic parody in its projection of the future condition of art. Sceptical over the proliferation of biennale “franchises” being set up everywhere, and the connection-based mentality of art organisers, the project intimated that art is […]

Yokohama Sala2001Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary ArtYokohama, Japan With Yokohama historically Japan’s first international port, the area has a strong foreign influence, which Navin Rawanchaikul responded to from the position of a foreigner living in Japan. A Thai sala, or open-sided pavilion, was imported to Yokohama to serve as an imaginative train station, the Yokohama Sala. A platform along an old disused […]

2nd Berlin Biennale2001Berlin, Germany Curated by Saskia Bos for the Second Berlin Biennale, 5,000 pieces of Pha Khao Mar Uncle Pan cloth were flown over with a large custom-made Pha Khao Mar tent where the accompanying film was presented. Gallery

Chateau Scoterus2001Fourchambault, France At the annual Euro Vespa Club rally held in France in 2001, Fly with Me to Another World installation, under the collection of French art institution Le Consortium, was presented to the European bikers and local community members at Fourchambault town over a weekend. Presented at a community hall near the site where more than 2,000 bikers were camping, […]

Fly with Me to Another world2001Il Dono / The GiftCentro Arte Comtemporanea Pallazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy Another exhibition based around the concept of giving gifts, Fly with Me to Another World was presented at a prestigious art centre in the native country of Inson’s beloved mentor, Corrado Feroci (Silpa Bhirasri). The installation included the model of Inson […]

I Love Taxi2001I Love Taxi, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USATarget Art in the Park, Public Art Fund Project, New York, USA Navin Production’s artistic sortie to the Big Apple resulted in the huge I ♥ TAXI billboard at Times Square, while the downtown Madison Square Park element of I ♥ TAXI was a Public Art Fund sponsored initiative called Target Art in the Park, […]

Same Same but Another Millennium2000Comic series in Flash Art International Magazine This specially drafted comic series for Flash Art International magazine ran over four-pages in seven consecutive issues. Before Dan Brown, Navin Rawanchaikul lays claim to his Na Vinci Code, the story of which starts at the Louvre on millennium night, with the surface of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa […]

Mai Pen Rai Yatai2000Museum City Fukuoka 2000Canal City Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan A part of a bi-annual Museum City Fukuoka community-based art exhibition, Navin Production appropriated Fukuoka’s renowned yatai, a Japanese refreshment stall, inside the city’s largest shopping mall. A relaxing place to sample the special toxic drink – Dr. D Cocktail, it was also a site to read and collect Navin Production comics […]