ARTIST

Founded on an ethos of friendship, and emerging from a regional constellation of artists' initiatives and independent spaces, the se ries of art festivals known as Chiang Mai Social Installation (199298) staged contemporary Thai art within everyday city life. From temples and cemeteries to libraries, the town square and even a dental clinic, these artist-led interventions present a self-funded anarchic alternative to Southeast Asia's subsequently expanding biennial culture, while also marking the emergence of a wider conte mporary m...[Read more]