Arthub Favorite: Week 161
Jim Thompson Art Center presents
‘Artistic Research for a Dynamic Trans-disciplinary Praxis’
A Talk by Jay Koh
Time: 2019 November 20, 18:30
Venue: William Warren Library, Soi Kasemsan 2, Rama 1 Rd., Bangkok
Join the talk by Jay Koh, exploring holistic, inclusive and ethical processes that merge practice with theory to produce a dynamic praxis. These processes are framed under the overall concept of ‘trans-modernity’ and consider the needs of autonomy, contextual responsiveness and ownership in order to create coherent, analytic, holistic and critical forms that can engage with many others, as well as produce a platform of trans-disciplinary artistic research that engages with various disciplines and belief systems.
Applying Art-Led Participative Processes (ALPP), as an example of working in public with different others and in the everyday, Koh aims to reveal how a practitioner filters through the dominant knowledge systems and use research processes to build reciprocity, people-centeredness and criticality. This form of trans-disciplinary artistic research draw from the cognitive sciences, social anthropology, constructivism, linguistic studies and public participative art. It serves as a performative framework for a dynamic composition of dialogical practice and participation in engaging individual subjectivities within the interactions of the everyday.
Background of ALPP
Art-Led Participative Processes (ALPP) emerged from many years of conducting public participatory art and a transdisciplinary art praxis using the dynamic components of dialogue, participation and relationship building. They aim to examine the construction of subjectivity in responding to dominant narratives and cultural values, within ‘everyday’ interactions and local contexts.
ALPP seeks to construct a coherent body of knowledge coming from cognitive sciences, social anthropology, communicative processes and public participatory art. The primacy of working in real world situations is intrinsic to ALPP, as only in such manner can participative art activities encourage participants’ embedded anxieties and tensions to emerge and be discussed critically.
Responding to the inherent need for both autonomy and social connection of individuals in society, ALPP work to nurture reciprocity and intersubjective bonding through meaning-making; promote shared ownership of generated knowledge/experience and incorporate durational creative interactions to engage members of the public, with a focus on intersectionality, including minority groups and hard-to-reach communities.
About Jay Koh
Jay Koh, born and grownup in Singapore, a German citizen, who considers himself a Southeast Asian, is a cross/trans-disciplinary artist-curator, educator and consultant/evaluator focusing on public participative and socially-engaged art. He is author of the Art-Led Participative Processes: Dialogue & Subjectivity within Performances in the Everyday that discusses holistic, ethical and people-centered processes in interactions with art and society, in building relationships, knowledge, ownerships and seeking affirmation across sectors and disciplines. This book emerged from his Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA), trans-disciplinary artistic research, attained with the University of the Arts Helsinki while doing his case studies in Dublin, Ireland. Presently, he is an adviser and module supervisor with the Zurich University of the Art, Master of Advanced Studies, Arts & Society.
Koh had undertaken several art residencies/fellowships with consultation activities such as with IASPIS, Spaced 2, Creative Scotland and other organisations in Havana, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.
This year, he is working with artist and cultural activists in Dalat, Vietnam to set up public participative art and environment activities and initiated the art & humanitarian project, The Summer of the Compelled Phoenix in Hong Kong.
For more information, please contact: artcenter@jimthompsonhouse.com
Or call +662.612.6741
Venue: William Warren Library, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok
Access: Kasemsan Soi 2 (BTS. National Stadium Exit.1)