Longtruk: in the gap, in between is a transnational curatorial-research project executed in 2023, extending OCAC’s long-running work in Asia and Southeast Asia. The project focuses on the residency and field practice of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts & Culture in Thailand. A team from Taiwan travelled to Ratchaburi for in-depth interviews, research and a public talk, responding to the working method of “in the gap, in between” — how art can unfold within the tensions between city/countryside, state/civic, local/diasporic, regional/global.
- Organisers Open Contemporary Art Center; Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts & Culture
- Date 16 Sep 2023
- Format International exchange talk
- Participants 12
- Sharing artists Krittaporn Mahaweerarat, Nanut Thanapornrapee, Thapong Srisai, members of Baan Noorg
Project context
OCAC has long worked alongside artistic practices that take place at the edges of Asia — rural towns, urban peripheries, diasporic communities. Baan Noorg’s method is rooted in the small town of Ratchaburi, in continued collaboration with residents, youth and artists, returning art to the gaps of everyday life: temple courtyards, streets, markets, schools. Longtruk enters from this long arc of practice and asks how independent Asian art organisations can work outside mainstream institutions, taking “the gap” as a method.
Annual summary
2023 A Taiwan team visited Ratchaburi for several days of research interviews; on 16 September the group convened an online sharing session, inviting three Baan Noorg artists to present their local practice in dialogue with the Taiwan art community.