Towers of destinations

Just to update to those who missed the last (additional) meeting in Monday afternoon, we have come up to this idea of building towers as a conceptual/physical framework to sum up our experience/knowledge exchange in the workshops. It's a result after many mutations and subject to mutate further. Tobias and Heague will further develop it and we expect soon concrete ideas will be coming into action. Stay tuned.

gimhongsok

Posted for gimhongsok:

Dear Tobias,
I am really sorry for my announcement that I could not participate the workshop and the triennale as well.
According to my tight schedule in Korea, I can not concentrate your proposals and even not move anywhere.
I am sorry again and I deeply wish the project have a successful outcome.
Hope we will see soon.

Best regards,
gimhongsok

Abstract for the idea of Art Organization [based on art situation in BKK] / Arin Rungjang

Back to 1997, alternative spaces, About Studio/About Café and Project 304 were prominent in the Bangkok art scene. By giving young artists and art students opportunities to show their work in public spaces, these so-called alternative spaces, at first glance, appeared as an attempt to rupture with the.established institutions. Upon closer inspection, however, revealed a notion that alternative space was, in fact, a conduit employed to provide recognition for the minority and to exclude the existing order of the established. In other words, they operated with great similarity to the existing authority albeit different benefactors.

Alternative spaces were established as an important instrument in creating rupture to the established order that is the authority. However, these spaces gradually took upon themselves the very authoritative role they originally negated.

1. The main authority of art institution from outside
Relevant example can be seen in “City on the Move” project that invited international curators and art directors including Hans Urich Obrist, Hou Hanru,and also other project created by Nicolas Baurriaud, and Nathalie Bouton to organize public art projects and events in Bangkok in collaboration with the above mentioned alternative spaces.

2. The authority of art institution within
Alternative spaces while provided spaces for young and emerging artists also manipulated their otherness and differences by including the previously excluded to the whole, thus, adding to the existing order instead of creating new order.

Our proposal for an art organization/institution, therefore, is to create new order through the rupture, within the idea of fidelity to the truth, to the existing order i.e. the existing idea of art institution. New order is the universal criteria determined through fidelity to singular truth-event not the transcendental or the undeniable truth. Singular and Universal to time not specific to space and it can’t compare to difference time because it has its own truth.
In this sense, time is Universal since it is there for everybody to take upon in any given event; and truth is Singular for each person has their own version of truth even when they share the same experience. So time and event is the important reason to think about how to invent art organization not a space. It is this spirit of imagination, this incalculable excess of the new that we cannot fully determine but wish to have fidelity upon.

Our project is called “AS YET UNNAMED.”

For more information, please visit
www.asyet.org

individual/organization

Who are the individuals and who are the organizations? It’s not rare they are just the same party in our art world. S/he is an artist or curator and COULD BE also an art space. This oneself just so often has a symbiotic relationship with an organization. So an art space in Asia can think, act and create like a person. An art practitioner at the same time can be regarded as an organization simply as granted, representing a thought, a movement or a trend for others.

After all, individualism in Asia could hardly be anything highly regarded in the tradition, or maybe even in our modern society. When making any telephone inquiry, the receptionist would most likely ask from which company you are. It seems that individuals are simply not expected to take responsibility as organizations. If they are recognized as such, they will definitely be highly respected.

Perhaps the art world might be slightly different as the history of art is per se a history of individuals in spite of its complementary part of institutions like art groups, movements, trends and museums. Small organizations are allowed to be not so organized like loose groups of individual artists, at the same time attaining importance in contemporary art development as an institution especially where the establishment is either too old or simply not existing.

It’s a privilege for art practitioners to wear different hats within this context who are as individuals never too small and as organizations never too big.

organ

when we start we don't have any formula, we're more focus on what we want to do rather than the structure. after several years, it's still like that, content or the need first and the structure will follow in 'try and error' mode. we practicing the structure, the way we work together rather than just filling the structure. may be because we don't really believe there would be a best structure. but in the same time we might aware that losing the structure in more pretentious way is just too easy and can be boring.
because rules made to be broken anyway, so there should be a rule.

organization should be an act of survival, otherwise it will lose the tension, creativity and sense of humor. it can be a fun hierarchical structure or smartly chaotic.

got this from wikipedia:

"Total Football" is the label for an influential theory of tactical soccer pioneered by the Dutch.

In Total Football, a player who moves out of his position is replaced by another from his team, thus retaining the team's intended organizational structure. In this fluid system, no player is fixed in his nominal role; anyone can be successively an attacker, a midfielder and a defender.

Total Football's tactical success depends largely on the adaptability of each footballer within the team, in particular their ability to quickly change positions depending on the situation. The theory requires players to be comfortable in multiple positions, hence it puts high technical and physical demands on them.

thanks to meneer rinus michels .....

lee kit - sealed

Sealed (moment at home) 2008
Hand-painted tape, readymade, video.
Dimension variable

1. I want to make use of some domestic scene as a metaphor to organization, or institution. Every piece of furniture has at least, a function and its structure. Every corner or places at home have its function and structure, or rules to use according to the people living in. Just like any organizations in the world, have a function, structures and rules.

2. Policemen will sealed a crime scene with tape and freeze the locale. The locale's original function and rules are temporarily stopped. I want to make some tape which is similar to those policemen used to seal a place, but with something like 'This is more than I wanted.' hand-painted / printed on it instead of 'Police'. The 'locale', or the structure is sealed with an individual's comment instead of a name that represented another institution. The locales and the furniture are sealed like goods.

3. Too much, too much. Why not sealed some. May be it's too much even at home, may be. (tbc)