Artist Lab

Unsung Silhouettes

Championing queering as an un-methodology to navigate life, society, and paradigms, the cities of Bangkok and Taipei are explored from the outermost surface to the overlooked depths, where histories, herstories and theirstories strive to thrive under the cities' thicker, flashier skins. Stories in these cities not only brush around their glamorous, advertised attributes, but also root in and emerge from their erased past, hushed voices, and alienated beings. Artists of the 2024 ADAM Artist Lab will be in dialogue with alternative narratives of diverse communities through the locale-specific guidance of guest local artists, navigate how each falls and/or rises, and in the process form their own artistic community to reflect upon their findings.

Curatorial Team

Guest Curator: Sasapin Siriwanij

With Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English from the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Sasapin Siriwanij is a core member of B-Floor Theatre as a performer, director, and producer, a decade-long career which has rendered her well-versed in movement-based performance practices with interests in social critique and personal and social empowerment. Sasapin has taken the role of Artistic Director of Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM) since 2018, and has co-founded Producers of Thai Performing Arts Network (POTPAN), alongside being an independent theater artist and international touring producer.

http://www.bipam.org

Facilitator: Huang Ding-Yun

Huang Ding-Yun is one of the co-founders of Taipei-based multi-creator collective, Co-Coism. Co-coism aims at work-in-collective, site-responding, and interdisciplinary practices. They focus on creating a flexible relationship between the audience and the performers. Recently, Ding-Yun initiated series of projects on ‘Mind and Consciousness’, such as God in Residence and Performing Insanity.

Chen Yu-Dien

Taiwan / Taipei

Đoàn Thanh Toàn

Vietnam / Ho Chi Minh City

Amrita Hepi

Australia / Naarm (Melbourne) & Bangkok

Naruebet Jaksusuwan

Thailand / Bangkok

Yon Natalie Mik

Germany / Berlin & Seoul

Nagara Wada

Japan / Kyoto

Leu Wijee

Indonesia / Palu & Jakarta

In collaboration with

Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM) is an organization which holds annual performing arts meetings since 2016 to encourage exchanges and networking among artists, performing arts practitioners and academic researchers to develop Southeast Asian performing arts communities and to be a platform for Southeast Asian performing arts professionals to connect with the international performing arts scenes.

BIPAM meetings have proved to be an important initiative to encourage the critical discourse and exchanges for Southeast Asian performing arts communities and international arts communities as it continues to gain more recognition among the global arts scenes.

Since 2020, BIPAM has shifted to organizing its performing arts meeting biannually, and has grown to become a performing arts management service organization based in Bangkok. Its core team is an all-female collective of arts managers, with a vision to invite the world to take a step deeper into the various contexts of Southeast Asia where rich diversity in performing arts is ever-thriving, connecting Southeast Asian performing arts professionals with the international performing arts scenes. Moreover, BIPAM works to enhance the competence of local professionals through BIPAM’s own initiatives, collaboration projects with local and international art organizations, and other arts management services

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