Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98
- Submitting institution
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University of the Arts, London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 221
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Afterall
- ISBN
- 978-1-84638-191-1
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The output consists of an edited collection and separate single-authored chapter. The book builds on the field of ‘exhibition histories’ (e.g. Steeds, Afterall) through focusing on the specific local conditions of art’s presentation and reception, but argues that, rather than exhibitions in a Southeast Asian context, festivals can be seen as the critical junctures inaugurating post-national contemporary art. The book is co-edited by an academic specialist in Southeast Asian contemporary art, David Teh, and gathers contributions from leading artists and scholars from across disciplines: curatorial/exhibition studies, art history and anthropology.
Morris’s single-authored chapter presents an oral history of a series of artist-led festivals in northern Thailand during the 1990s. If Southeast Asia remained peripheral to the art world’s centres, its artists joined that world decisively during the 1990s, experimenting with art forms — performance, site-specific installation, participatory and so-called relational practices — that had special currency in the burgeoning global art circuit. The oral essay utilises an innovative and self-reflexive research methodology developed specifically for this project, which was produced through a synthesis of more than 20 newly commissioned accounts of the festivals from their major participants. This methodology was developed through a reflection on how these events have been historicised in their local context (primarily through word of mouth). In the publication, these events are presented alongside a detailed presentation of various forms of remembrance: video footage, photographs, ephemera, news clippings and first-person recollections.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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