{"id":91945,"date":"2026-06-07T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bacc.or.th\/?post_type=event&#038;p=91945"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:54:06","slug":"patch-the-world-between-the-seams-beyond-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.bacc.or.th\/en\/events\/91945","title":{"rendered":"PATCH THE WORLD : Between the Seams, Beyond the Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Queer Art Thailand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Queer Art Thailand&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1st Exhibition 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PATCH THE WORLD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Between the Seams, Beyond the Surface<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curator: Morakot Meyer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patch the World&#8211; Between the Seams, Beyond the Surface explores how queer lives, bodies, memories, and relationships are held together through fragments, tensions, and unfinished forms of coexistence. Rather than presenting queerness through fixed identities alone, the exhibition approaches it as a condition of negotiation\u2014between visibility and concealment, intimacy and distance, inheritance and transformation. Here, \u201cpatching\u201d does not imply harmony or resolution, but the ongoing labor of living with difference, instability, and incomplete connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rooted primarily in Thailand, the exhibition also introduces selected regional echoes and reframing through a small number of artists from Taiwan . Across personal archives, ritual aesthetics, photography, performance, abstraction, video, and everyday materials, the exhibition explores shared concerns surrounding intimacy, visibility, memory, and belonging within different cultural and social contexts. Some works quietly transform inherited visual languages from within, while others create spaces of ambiguity, emotional survival, tension, softness, and speculative forms of coexistence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition unfolds through three interconnected sections: Surface, Between the Seams, and Beyond the Surface. Surface examines visibility, appearance, and the politics of recognition, asking how queer bodies and desires become staged, circulated, anesthetized, and selectively acknowledged within contemporary culture. Between the Seams focuses on ambiguity, intimacy, and everyday negotiations, exploring forms of coexistence that remain unresolved, indirect, or difficult to categorize. Beyond the Surface moves toward speculative and affective forms of world-making, imagining alternative ways of relating, feeling, and surviving beyond normative structures of gender, sexuality, and belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout the exhibition, seams are intentionally left visible. They emerge as traces of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">negotiation, translation, care, fracture, and survival. Patch the World ultimately approaches coexistence not as a finished condition but as an ongoing, imperfect process of making worlds together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Curator Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bacc.or.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91943\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Morakot Meyer is a lecturer at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia (RILCA), Mahidol University. Her work focuses on migration, museums, heritage, memory, and the cultural politics of diversity in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Through research, curatorial practice, and exhibition-making, she explores how art, culture, and public narratives shape experiences of visibility, intimacy, multicultural coexistence, and diasporic memory in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her curatorial practice brings together contemporary art, lived experience, and archival traces to explore embodiment, vulnerability, and the emotional textures of contemporary life. In June 2026, she is curating \u201cPATCH THE WORLD: Between the Seams, Beyond the Surface,\u201d a queer contemporary art exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, please contact<br>Mobile 095-9629246 \u00a0<br>Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/QueerArtThailand?__cft__[0]=AZZGyd_PsGKp52RvekEClAkuv0Idh8E_5IvhNoDiMJZ93LOsyVHzN9c8HXlNbiPhc4QVl8GHWHH8gToxrKbQWaT503aPiqQCjdedb4dowyUjo_NAZJs3z58bAdkxbVoSOVVbOhBs6QdEif7b0wlmTNtxfAESB2eWwEgygpH3JqU1vSKBaerwkggbXkIQ6-seb_K8BbnDPhXeVjZHTAc4Ft69&amp;__tn__=-]C%2CP-R\">Queer Art Thailand<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Queer Art Thailand Queer Art Thailand&nbsp; 1st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":91944,"template":"","archives":[992],"locations":[579],"attendees":[],"sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-91945","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","archives-exhibition-network"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PATCH THE WORLD : Between the Seams, Beyond the Surface - Bangkok Art and Culture Centre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bacc.or.th\/en\/events\/91945\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PATCH THE WORLD : Between the Seams, Beyond the Surface - Bangkok Art and Culture Centre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Queer Art Thailand Queer Art Thailand&nbsp; 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