Gasworks has selected Thai Artist “Tanat Teeradakorn” for a residency

Bangkok, 20 December 2023 – Following an open call to artists in Thailand, which has provided an exciting snapshot of emerging talents in the country, Gasworks, in partnership with The Institutum, has selected Tanat Teeradakorn (b. 1991, Bangkok, Thailand) for a residency, which will take place from April to June 2024.

Tanat Teeradakorn is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, DJ, and graphic designer. Working across multiple mediums including sound, music, performance, text, printmaking, merchandise design, and installation, he often creates immersive and all-encompassing situations where the audience plays an integral part.

By combining dissonant fragments of biography, memory, and data with historical narratives, Tanat’s work interrogates the ways in which cultural narrative constructs, circulates, and replicates across media, culture, and spatial context.

Previous Works from Tanat Teeradakorn

A graduate in Communication Art & Design from Bangkok University, with a Masters in Fine Art & Design from Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem (Netherlands), Tanat is a prolific artist who has participated in multiple solo and group exhibitions in Bangkok and Berlin. Most recently – Chaos Mandala: National Coloration Complex, Solo exhibition at Bangkok CityCity Gallery (2023); Artist in residency Presentation, Solo eExhibition at A LESTE, Porto (2022); Transmediale Group Exhibition at silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin (2023).

During the residency at Gasworks, Tanat will undertake on-site research across multiple historical locations in London. He is focusing on the subject of the Glorious Revolution in England (the events of 1688–89 that resulted in the deposition of James II and the accession of his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III), and the story behind the creation of the Magna Carta (June 1215). Concurrently, he will develop new work from the research, combining it with the historical trajectory between Thailand and the UK, and their current socio-political contexts.

For further information about the artist and the residency, please contact [email protected].

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TQPR Thailand

Tom Van Blarcom, [email protected]

Nuie Titichayapon, [email protected], +662 260 5820

About The Institutum and Gasworks

The Institutum is a non-profit institution based in Singapore, focused on expanding the horizons of art by developing relationships with the global contemporary art community through international projects that respond to the South-East Asian context.

The Institutum has two pillars: Public Outreach and Education:

• The public outreach programmes will connect the public to the global world of leading artists, curators and educators collaborating with local and foreign institutions, industries, and talents
• The education arm is an initiative to promote educational programming. The Institutum seeks to partner with leading international institutions for South-East Asian artists to raise awareness and standards of arts education.

Established in 1994, Gasworks is a non-profit contemporary visual art organisation in London. The organisation is working at the intersection between UK and international practices and debates. Gasworks has a highly respected international residencies programme which offers rare opportunities for international artists to research and hone their practice in London. Over the last 25 years, Gasworks has worked with over 500 artists from 80 countries around the world.

The Institutum and Gasworks have partnered for a 5-year residency with a focus on artists from South-East Asia. This 5-year residency focuses on one country in Southeast-East Asia per year.