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
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