Chiang Mai Social Installation
chiang mai social installation csmi chiang mai jat wang sang khom art project festival series founded mit jai inn uthit atimana montien boonma araya rasjarmrearnsook festival brought art — particularly installation performance work — traditional commercial venue street nontraditional venue chiang mai thailand work often live otherwise ephemeral nature never given market value chiang mai social installation founded group artist friend chiang mai thailand uthit atimana artist lecturer chiang mai university fine art faculty mit jai inn assistant austrian artist franz west recently returned hometown chiang mai founded ethos friendship project epitomised regional specificity emphasis ephemerality sociality intervention presented selffunded anarchic alternative southeast asia subsequently expanding biennial culture participating artist arahmaiani based thailand receiving death threat indonesia progressive view expressed important artistic community could support everyone could express themselvesi felt kind freedom time arahmaiani several cmsi participating artist also took part important festival growing parallel womanifesto first cmsi festival held november february called art festival temple cemetery festival introduced art piece temple civic square bridge moat festival would become known chiang mai social institution first festival included artist uthit atimana kosit juntaratip navin rawanchaikul udom chimpakdee tawatchai pansawat montien boonma artist thai many chiang mai university fine art faculty second cmsi event happened midnovember midfebruary temple graveyard public building throughout chiang mai titled chiang mai social installation second art festival temple cemetery private residence public building street bridge wall river canal open space iteration fifty artist — local international — participated including narupon buranabanyat tawatchai homthong montien boonma udom chimpakdee joan ground thatree pokavanich tei kobayashi apichat udomchai mit jai inn sarawoot tongchampa kosit juntaratip navin rawanchaikul kitti maleepan araya rasdjarmrearnsook theerapong takerd nigel helyer vasan sitthiket komsan nookaew chatchawan nilsakul worapoj preabjariyawat pittawat tripopsawat rakon lakon group supachai satsara kade javanalikhikara preecha punklam sunthorn meesri talk discussion involved nidhi eoseewong saneh jamarik seksan prasertkul tani arata kimio tsuchiya chieo senzaki sulak sivaraksa budget reported around baht third cmsi festival titled chiang mai social installation third art cultural festival temple cemetery private residence public building street bridge wall river canal open space ran midnovember midfebruary included artist lee wen doris kraushaar suttisak phutararak ekachai luadsoongnern paisan plienbangchang wunlop manyam ingrid h klauser nopparat chokchaichutikul akatsuki harada yvonne parent eng hwee chu yutaka sone komson nookiew satoshi hirose tang da wu pierto pellini yola berbesz jay koh tawatchai homthong maethee srisuthasinee tatsuo inagaki vincent leow kong yam arahmaiani nilofar akmut janice sommerville leen emmerzael liz miller chitti kasemkitvatana wattana wattanapun toeingam srisubut mari zirus junya yamaide masato nakamura toi ungkavatanapong tan chin kuan also festival artist navin rawanchaikul set navin driving school teaching driving local resident wanted learn rawanchaikul considered teaching artmaking process fourth final iteration cmsi occurred december january title poverty featured artist sanya santives ben patterson rolf hinterecker sompong tawee mongkol plienbangchang anja ibsch jaksaree suvanasare carola willbrand frank köllges noppadol tirataradol enno stahl kritsana soonthornpak preeraphong boomjanta luka boonkerd kaewdee others cmsi stopped official programming though young artist attempted revive collective art programming january cofounder mit jai inn concerned festival becoming exhibitioncentric thus introduced spinoff event week joint sorrow changed week cooperative suffering order focus public engagement week included nightly gathering wellknown local entity passersby could speak crowd week occurred first week documentary talk history chiang mai social installation held wat umong phutthatham occasion publication artisttoartist independent art festival chiang mai – feature uthit atimana david teh david morris performance narumol thammaprusa bangkok biennial thai art