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\n\t\tTRANSMISSION\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\"Project_TRANSMISSION\"\n\t

Sopheap Pich, Albert Yonathan Setyawan, The Propeller Group, Nick Chan, Suwichcha Dussadeewanich, Sakarin Krue-On and Thakol Khao Sa-ad.<\/p>\n

The Jim Thompson Art Center, 21 March \u2013 30 September 2014<\/p>\n

TRANSMISSION is an exhibition exploring the interface between cultural heritage and contemporary art. The show takes as its starting point a storied collection of art and artifacts, that of the Jim Thompson Thai House and Museum, a collection almost synonymous with Thai heritage thanks to the museum\u2019s preservation and promotion of Thai culture, old and new. But like other important Thai collections, most of its contents are actually\u00a0older\u00a0<\/em>than Thailand – certainly, older than the modern nation state inaugurated in the 1930s. Speaking to us from pre-modern and pre-national times, what is the place to which it refers? Taking in centuries of cultural exchange and an area now spanning many countries, what the museum assembles and displays is also a collection of\u00a0regional<\/em>\u00a0art.<\/p>\n

TRANSMISSION offers a glimpse into Thailand\u2019s pre-national unconscious, through the looking glass of contemporary art. The exhibition sees seven contemporary artists from Thailand and Southeast Asia responding to the Jim Thompson collection in their own terms. Their works show that the past is not just an inspiration, but a challenge, that \u2018tradition\u2019 is not just an inheritance of forms and techniques, but a live process of translation and adaptation that is integral to the experience of modernity. TRANSMISSION suggests that \u2018heritage\u2019 offers much more than a sense of identity, but also conceptual, spiritual and practical\u00a0knowledge<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 renewable resources for thinking, feeling and making.<\/p>\n

Through new and recent creations in a wide variety of media \u2013 from woodwork and painting to video and sound installation \u2013 the exhibition raises the question of how knowledge is transmitted, between people and between peoples. How does a culture reach across time and space? What makes it rigid or adaptable? Why do some cultures thrive, while others fade away?<\/p>\n

Such questions could not be more timely as Southeast Asia readies itself for greater political, economic and cultural integration. Yet most of this region still grapples with defensive and divisive forms of nationalism, and art and archaeology are often the prized sacrificial victims. Despite populist appeals to national heritage, and international claims to \u2018world heritage\u2019, the region\u2019s cultural roots reach across all national borders.<\/p>\n

Rather than provoke, TRANSMISSION opens a dialogue amongst forms \u2013 ancient, modern and contemporary \u2013 that reflect the region\u2019s deeper, shared past and its inevitably common future. Like the Jim Thompson brand itself, founded on giving time-honoured techniques a contemporary expression, TRANSMISSION advances a forward-looking view of the past. It celebrates the vitality of\u00a0moradok<\/em>, and art\u2019s ongoing contribution to this living heritage.<\/p>\nTRANSMISSION is curated by David Teh, with the assistance of Mary Pansanga
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TRANSMISSION Sopheap Pich, Albert Yonathan Setyawan, The Propeller Group, Nick Chan, Suwichcha Dussadeewanich, Sakarin Krue-On and Thakol Khao Sa-ad. The Jim Thompson Art Center, 21 March \u2013 30 September 2014 TRANSMISSION is an exhibition exploring the interface between cultural heritage and contemporary art. The show takes as its starting point a storied collection of art and artifacts, that of the Jim Thompson Thai House and Museum, a collection almost synonymous with Thai heritage thanks to the museum\u2019s preservation and promotion of Thai culture, old and new. But like other important Thai collections, most of its contents are actually\u00a0older\u00a0than Thailand – certainly, older than the modern nation state inaugurated in the 1930s. Speaking to us from pre-modern and pre-national times, what is the place to which it refers? Taking in centuries of cultural exchange and an area now spanning many countries, what the museum assembles and displays is also a collection of\u00a0regional\u00a0art. TRANSMISSION offers a glimpse into Thailand\u2019s pre-national unconscious, through the looking glass of contemporary art. The exhibition sees seven contemporary artists from Thailand and Southeast Asia responding to the Jim Thompson collection in their own terms. 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