เมื่อวันพุธที่24 กุมภาพันธ์2564 นายตีแยรี มาตู เอกอัครราชทูตฝรั่งเศสประจำประเทศไทย ได้ร่วมงานเปิดนิทรรศการ Swamped : ท่วม ณ วารินแล็บคอนเท็มโพรารี (Warin Lab Contemporary) Swamped : ท่วม เป็นนิทรรศการศิลปะการจัดวาง (installation art) ซึ่งผ่านการคัดสรรและนำเสนอเนื้อหาโดย สุคนธ์ทิพย์ประหารภาพ และออกแบบประสบการณ์การเข้าชมโดย พงษ์พันธ์ สุริยภัทรและทีมงานจากบริษัทอินเตอร์แอคชั่นดีไซน์สตูดิโอจำกัด (InteractionDesign Studio Co. Ltd.) ภายใต้แนวคิดเศรษฐกิจหมุนเวียน(Circular Economy)
โดยศิลปิน4 คนได้สื่อสารข้อความสำคัญคือความจำเป็นเร่งด่วนที่จะต้องลดการใช้ทรัพยากรผ่านการสร้างสรรค์ผลงานศิลปะในรูปแบบเฉพาะของตนเอง ทั้งประติมากรรมจัดวาง ศิลปะการแสดงสด และศิลปะแสงสีเสียงเพื่อให้ผู้ชมได้รับรู้ถึงปริมาณขยะสะสมและเกิดการตั้งคำถามถึงพฤติกรรมการบริโภคของเรา นิทรรศการมุ่งเน้นการนำวัสดุพลาสติกกลับมาใช้ใหม่ เพื่อชี้ให้เห็นว่าอนาคตไม่ได้อยู่ที่การคิดค้นพลาสติกชนิดใหม่และการผลิตแบบใหม่ แต่เป็นการเปลี่ยนแปลงวิถีชีวิตของเราและการพัฒนาความตระหนักทางสิ่งแวดล้อมและในหน้าที่ของพลเมือง
ภายใต้โครงการ Green Embassy ของกระทรวงกิจการยุโรปและการต่างประเทศฝรั่งเศส สถานเอกอัครราชทูตฝรั่งเศสประจำประเทศไทย ได้มีส่วนร่วมในการจัดนิทรรศการดังกล่าว โดยร่วมกับวิสาหกิจชุมชนรีไซเคิลเพื่อสิ่งแวดล้อม จังหวัดระนอง ซึ่งได้รับการสนันบสนุนจากมูลนิธิ Fondation Jan & Oscar จัดหาฝาขวดพลาสติก ซึ่งเก็บได้จากพื้นที่จังหวัดระนอง หมู่เกาะสุรินทร์และเกาะพยามให้แก่ศิลปินเพื่อใช้เป็นวัสดุในการสร้างสรรค์ผลงานตามความประสงค์ของวารินแล็บคอนเท็มโพรารี
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Re-using to (re)create. SWAMPED, an exhibition that circulates knowledge and artistic practices
On Wednesday, February 24, 2021, Ambassador of France to Thailand Thierry Mathou inaugurated the SWAMPED project at Warin Lab Contemporary. An art installation directed by Sukontip Prahanpap and conceived by Pongpan Suriyapat (Interaction Design Studio Co. Ltd.), as an immersive experience on circular economy.
Creating a conversation between four artists who each have their own format for artistic expression, this installation grows from a crucial theme : the need to urgently save our scarce resources. Sculptures, performances, sound and light blend together to denounce the accumulation of trash and to question our relationship to consumption. Based on the notion of a Circular Economy, “SWAMPED” emphasizes the significance of minimizing the requirements for new resources. Old materials can be used longer through recycling, upcycling, repairing, and refurbishment in order to create a closed-loop system. “SWAMPED” intends to project the critical idea that the devil is not in the innovation of plastic but in the human’s habit of convenience first.
In the framework of the Green Embassy project, which aims for carbon neutrality of all diplomatic organs abroad in the middle-term, the Embassy of France in Thailand partnered with Ranong Recycle For Environment and Social Enterprise, an association supported by the Jan&Oscar Foundation, on the occasion of this exhibition. Answering Warin Lab Contemporary’s call for contributions, the two structures provided the artists with a part of the plastic caps used as the primary material for the artwork, which were gathered from the Ranong province and from some islands of the Andaman sea (Koh Surin et Koh Phayam).
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ABOUT THE CURATOR
Pongpan Suriyapat earned M.Sc. in Applied Information Technology with a Specialization in Art and Technology at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden in 2007. In 2019, he was awarded CAS Curating from Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) in Switzerland.
Suriyapat was a head of design at Advertima AG, St.Gallen, Switzerland. He is also a visiting lecturer at various universities including King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thammasat University, Rajamangala University, and Silpakorn University in Thailand.
With his specialty in design and innovation, Pongpan earned several awards including the Red Dot Design Award with Communication Design In Collaboration with Dilussion Inc. in South Korea in November 2016, MAAT (Media Agency Association of Thailand) Award Best Use of Out of Home Media (Johnson and Johnson’s) in February 2016, 123RF Contest Winner at Amusing Insects in September 2013, and Awardee of IT University Scholarship for the Exhibition in Interactive Art and installation: “Play, Enjoy” exhibited in Mok-A Museum: Gyeonggi-do in South Korea in June 2005.
Moreover, he has completed both national and international projects. For example, Kinetic Art Installation AIS Flagship Store at Central Westgate in Bangkok (2017), Happy Farming Agriculture Exhibition at the National Science Museum in Bangkok (2017), and Anti-Drug Exhibition at the National Science Museum in Bangkok (2017). For international projects, there are Interactive Way-finding / Personas Tracking Raiffeisenbank in St. Gallen, Switzerland (2017), Christmas Campaign, Interactive game with Kinect / Personas Tracking Westside Shopping Center in Bern, Switzerland (2016), and Kinetic Art Installation (Split Flap Display x 144 Modules) JTBC at Digital Media City in Seoul, South Korea (2015).
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Taweesak Molsawat is an artist, designer, creative researcher and design consultant based in Bangkok, Thailand conducting exhibitions, performances, lectures and workshops nationally and internationally.
His work has been in both private and public collections including a Permanent Collection of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California and TACOMA ART MUSEUM in Tacoma, Washington in USA.
His work was part of Bangkok Art Biennale 2018, Long duration performance titled, “The Gardener”, Duration: 22 days as a part of 8 long duration performances titled “A Possible Island”, curated by Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC), Thailand; Bangkok Art Biennale 2018, a series of long duration performances titled, “Mis/placed: The Existing of Non-Existence” as a part of Beyond Infinity, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand (Stay in BACC 24 hrs. a day for 6 days).
Ploenchan founded her own company, Beyond Living, that started with uniquely nature-inspired collections for the export market, then developed exclusive designs for hotels and resorts. Her creations, ranging from art installations to products, always use textile as a primary medium. She pushes the boundary in combining different materials from brass, aluminum, and wood to recycled paper, plastic, and stained glass.
She held her first solo art exhibition titled WOMB at Serindia Gallery, Bangkok in 2015. Her large scaled mixed-media art installation titled Nestscape was featured as the entryway of Art Stage Singapore 2016 in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. In 2020, she had a solo exhibition titled The Sea Ghost and Beyond at Nova Contemporary, Bangkok.
Thanawat Maneenawa is the owner of a Thai creative brand called TAM:DA who declares himself not a conservationist or environmentalist but a man who believes in a notion of circular economy and could not stand seeing usable materials being turned into rubbish.
His passion for creative arts began when he was a child creating his toys from household usable materials. It has developed into creativity and skills in repairing, upcycling, and refurbishment. Together with experience in the creative team at the advertising agency, then he started TAM:DA studio.
Note Panayanggool a.k.a Notep (No-Tep) is an artist, musician and environmental conservationist based in Thailand who focuses on creating art and music that enriches the viewer’s spirituality and their love for nature. Her recent project “High on your own supply” is a platform to guide people back towards themselves and their divine nature by teaching mindfulness and appreciation of nature through modern mediums such as music, art, technology, fun events, and adventures.
As an artist: Note’s passion for the arts began in 2005 when she used it as an outlet for her creative energy but it has since grown to become her life’s work. Her dedication to perfecting her craft has earned her multiple accolades and has allowed her to discover her true passion of using the arts to inspire and heal. Over the recent years, Note has merged her work with her interests in energy, spirituality and nature appreciation to create pieces that attempts to clear blockages for her audience and breaks them out of the box. She aims to use art as a medium to be the change she would like to see in this world.
