In conjunction with BACC's 4th Floor Studio exhibition 

DISPLACED: the politics of ethnicity and religion in the art of Jakkai Siributr 

Public talks are being given by the artist and curator.

Saturday May 6, 13:00-16:00 hrs., Studio 4th floor.

 

DISPLACED: Jakkai Siributr’s research methodology

Speaker: Jakkai Siributr

 

Can Art Change The World ?

JakkaiSiributr’s aesthetics of contestation in the Thai and Southeast Asian art historical context.

Speaker: Iola Lenzi

 

Speakers

Jakkai Siributr has been represented in solo and group exhibitions in Asia, Europe and the United States. In Thailand, his work has been shown repeatedly at The Art Centre, Chulalongkorn University, among others. His work is featured in numerous institutional collections, including the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the VehbiKoç Foundation, Istanbul; the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

 

Iola Lenzi, the curator of DISPLACED, has been collaborating with Jakkai Siributr since 2012. Based in Singapore, Lenzi is an art historian and critic of Southeast Asian art. Also trained in law, she has conceptualised numerous institutional exhibitions in Asia and Europe exploring the discourse-shaping place of socially-engaged practices in Southeast Asian art history. In Bangkok, she has curated exhibitions at BACC and the Jim Thompson Art Center. Lenzi teaches “Society and Politics in Asian Art” at Singapore’s Lasalle-Goldsmiths School of Art. She is the author of Museums of Southeast Asia (2005), and the editor/author of research publications on Southeast Asian art.