Dates

18 - 31 July 2022

Location

Bangkok

Description

In 1999, the landmark exhibition “Cities on the Move” toured to Bangkok and initiated developments in global art around the turn of the millenium. The world has since shifted. In the form of a case study, this summer school aims to review this recent past in the Thai context in order to reconsider our position today, perhaps even for our future moves.

Bangkok, which boasts both rich and unique artistic traditions and contemporary developments, will be the site of our study for the fourth edition of our Summer School. In 1999, the touring exhibition “Cities on the Move” (CotM), curated by Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist, came to Bangkok as its 6th edition – the only exhibition of its kind with works scattered in different places instead of presented at a single major institution. At the time, optimism about the global village peaked, not least due to the ultra-growth of cities in Asia. More than twenty years later, the world has become hugely different and the formerly close ties between countries and continents now seem to belong to the past. This Summer School sets out to gain insights from this drastic change and to reconsider our position today, perhaps for our future moves.

A symposium on “Cities on the Move” will be the keynote event of this summer school from which the whole programme will unfold. Examining this particular history through various case studies, students will learn about the close relationship between context and artistic productions. They will explore various creative approaches to historical subjects via physical materials or digital media and will develop their own work, which will be presented in a final exhibition including invited critics.

Lerning outcomes

  • Develop historical awareness..
  • Discuss material indexicality and site-specificity.
  • Conceptualise subjects for development.
  • Depict history/memory based on critical reflection

Modality

This Summer School is planned face to face in Bangkok. Students will be able to take part in this Summer School in two ways and should apply for their preferred mode:

  • Fully enrolled students: Face-to-face in Bangkok
  • Auditing students: Online lectures and symposium only

Applicants

The programme offers places to 25 fully enrolled students from the participating partner institutions from a wide range of arts and design disciplines, including the performing arts, film, music, fine
arts, media arts, design, and art education. The number of auditing students for online participation in the symposium and lectures is not limited.

Collaborating partners

  • City University of Hong Kong ⁄ School of Creative Media (SCM)
  • University of the Arts London (UAL)
  • Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
  • Sipakorn University, Bangkok
  • Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok