Super(m)art @ Yokohama2005Yokohama 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary ArtYokohama, Japan In its ultimate manifestation to date, Super(m)art expanded its themes by developing five Monopoly-style board games – How to be a Successful Curator, Artist, Critic, Gallerist, and the main game Super(m)artistic CEO. Set in the atmospheric caged in warehouse at Yamashita Pier, visitors would compete in weekly rounds of […]
Paradise Sala2005APAP 2005: Anyang Public Art ProjectAnyang, Korea Meaning paradise or utopia in Korean, Anyang was the site for a public art project in which Navin Production decorated a Korean style gazebo with a traditional mural. Similar open-sided pavilions, or sala, are a focal point of most Thai rural communities, with the simple wood frame structures serving as an open platform […]
Please Donate Your Ideas for A Biennale Artist2004XXVI Bienal de Sao PauloSao Paulo, Brazil In proximity to the exhibition’s entrance, a large sprayed graffiti slogan in English and Portuguese read Please Donate Your Ideas for a Biennale Artist requested people to contribute messages to the artist and the public art large. Continuing in the interactive discourse, the […]
Fly with Me to Another World2004Hariphunchai National Museum, Lamphun, Thailand After exhibiting variants of the Fly with Me to Another World series throughout Europe and Japan, the exhibition was brought back to Inson Wongsam’s hometown in Lamphun, a historical city in northern Thailand. The project was realised by the collaboration of individuals and organisations under the name Fly with Me to Another World […]
How to be a Successful Curator20043rd Liverpool BiennialLiverpool, UK After the Bangkok exhibition the philosophical art battle between Old Navin and Curatorman continues, with the artist hoping to revive his fading art career when he is invited to the 2054 revival of the Liverpool Biennial. As a counter strike to arts possible re-emergence, Curatorman and his team of profiteers […]
Bangkok Survivors2004Here & NowAbout Studio / About Café, Bangkok, Thailand Exhibited as a part of a large international group exhibition held across several makeshift venues within Bangkok’s Chinatown, in Bangkok Survivors, the futuristic Curatorman has come to Thailand to promote SUPER(M)ART, when he slams the plans by Old Navin and his ageing art peers who are trying to open the […]
Hakata Drive-in II2003Traffic: Art Exchange between Fukuoka and KitakyushuFukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka and Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan In a site-specific project relating to the city, Hakata Drive-in II incorporated the history of the now defunct old tram in Hakata, the old district of Fukuoka, by utilising the suspended passenger handles on the Fukuoka subway system which typically has small spaces for advertising. Selected from interviews conducted with old […]
We are the Children of Rice (Wine)2002Emotional SiteSagacho Building, Tokyo, Japan A farewell exhibition for a historical building in Tokyo built in 1937 as a centre for rice trading, which in the 1990s became the home for several Japanese contemporary art galleries. The exhibition organisers invited more than 30 artists to explore various spaces throughout the building which was scheduled to be […]
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 […]