Navin & His Gang (Visit) Vancouver1997Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada A solo show in which Navin Rawanchaikul collaborated with three of his high school friends as they travelled to Vancouver with a reed grass mat in hand. The mat is a welcome space in Thai and Asian culture that is rolled out when friends visit, a device for communication it is […]
Out of India1997Out of India: Contemporary Art of The South Asian DiasporaQueens Museum of Art, New York, USA One Sunday morning at an Indian temple in Chiang Mai, Navin Rawanchaikul dispersed typical tourist postcards from his hometown throughout the local Indian community. Examining perceptions of migration and Diaspora, the 100-plus written postcards were then mailed from Chiang Mai to the […]
Another Place in A Day1997Deserted and Embracedformer Railway Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand A collaborative project between Navin Rawanchaikul and Rirkrit Tiravanija was part of a one-day exhibition (August 11th) situated at the derelict Railway Hotel building in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. The two artists presented a site-specific project with three components. First was a large […]
Unmapping (Over the night in Kwangju)19972nd Kwangju BiennaleKwangju, Korea Highlighting issues surrounding migration and displacement, this project was developed to work with children in different contexts and locations. Linking lives from different places in the world, Navin Rawanchaikul visited a Thai friend who teaches refugee children in a suburb town near Atlanta in the U.S., travelling there to conduct workshops with the […]
Cities on the Move I1997Wiener Secession and Museum in Progress, Vienna A set of five hand-painted posters for the first Cities on the Move was realised in collaboration with Museum in Progress, a Vienna-based initiative working with international artists to present artworks in media space. Cities on the Move was adopted to title this fake movie along with the Thai […]
Cities on the Move1997 A large touring exhibition charting the emergence of Asian cities at the end of 1990’s, Cities on the Move was the brainchild of Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Hou Hanru who in collaboration with several art institutions and local initiates, produced seven versions that included more than 100 international artists and architects. In a collaboration of […]
Art in Southeast Asia 1997: Glimpse into the Future1997Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan As a touring show from Tokyo in the same year, this time 12,000 pieces of Pha Khao Mar Uncle Pan were sent to Hiroshima. People at the museum were greeted by the large light-box billboard of “Welcome to Pha Khao Mar on Tour” slogan with a smiling shot of Uncle […]
Art in Southeast Asia 1997: Glimpse into the Future1997Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan With custom-made Pha Khao Mar outfits and golden Rolex watches, Navin Production CEO and former Sales Manager Kosit Juntaratip were accompanied by a Japanese girl travelling to Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art by luxury limousine. Surrounded by cameras, they walked into the museum just as the opening ceremony’s president was finishing his speech. The two red-hair artists and […]
Pha Khao Mar on Tour1997-2003 A socio-anthropologically based project around the indigenous patterned pha khao mar loincloth, which has multiple functions in rural Thailand and neighbourhood countries, and is given to someone out of respect in local cultural context. Navin Rawanchaikul and his collaborative friend Kosit Juntaratip travelled to the north and northeast of Thailand to film a road documentary on […]
Happy New Love Year1997Kosit JuntaratipNavin Gallery Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand Chiang Mai based provocative performance artist Kosit Juntaratip used the Navin Gallery Bangkok as a love mobile to transport him and his wife Lily Ovary to the Golden Jubilee Art Exhibition in Bangkok. Having formally married her on Valentine’s Day the year before in Chiang Mai, Lily (an inflatable […]