Lanchester Gallery Projects announces an international exhibition of visual art in collaboration with Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Including artists from Thailand, Ireland, Singapore, Taiwan and Britain – though many have transnational affiliations – Unspeaking Engagements was shown at the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University during 2009.

The artists in Unspeaking Engagements explore processes of physical and/or durational engagement as a means of constituting the artwork. Each address their own or the viewers’ awareness of their body in relation to time and space.  At issue are questions of how such awareness can be cultivated, felt, represented and ultimately proliferated through the work of art. Unspeaking Engagements showcases artworks as sites of shifting experiences, in differentiation from artworks that require detached observation and propose fixed or final interpretations.

This exhibition proposes a detailed understanding of major questions within international contemporary art practices – who does what, how, when, and to whom – and consequently links theoretical debates about the intersection of performance and performativity to more recent critical issues of relational or participatory art. Moreover, the international basis of Unspeaking Engagements highlights different terms for understanding common methods and aims. Theories and sensibilities developed in one part of the world can be radically tested in another, provoking unexpected intensities and new formations.

Works to be included are drawing, video, interactive media, site-specific installation, performance and objects.

Exhibiting Artists;
Tintin Cooper
Institute of Beasts
Adam James
Michael Lee
Tanya Madsen Mahon
Brigid McLeer
Ho Ming-Kuei
Be Takerng Pattanopas
Kamol Phaosavasdi
Nigel Power and Elias Wyber
Hester Reeve
Jonathan Shaw
Carl von Weiler

Note on the Curators
Dr. Brian Curtin is a freelance art writer and curator based in Bangkok, and is currently an adjunct lecturer on the PhD program in Design Arts at Silpakorn University.

Steve Dutton (RCA) is an artist and Professor in Creative Practice at Coventry University in the UK. His projects have been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally.

Frenchgate Centre from Jonathan Shaw on Vimeo.

This piece was originally commissioned by the D-Frost festival of Ice, Fire and Light in Doncaster, England. Later this month this will be on show as part of the ‘Unspeaking Engagements’ exhibition, in Bangkok Thailand. The show has been curated by Steve Dutton and Brian Curtin.

The work will be shown for the first time as a linear film and specifically for this show I have worked closely with sound engineer Paul Adkins to construct a surround sound audio track. together with a newly designed surround sound audio track.

You can find out more about the work on my website;

www.jonathan-shaw.com/Work/french/french.html

Sound Designer, Paul Adkins in the studio

JS_Sound_Studio

This is just a short quicktime showing the spatial relationship of the surround sound audio re-working of the Frenchgate piece that I will be showing next month in Bangkok.

Unspeaking Engagements
Curated by Brian Curtin and Steve Dutton
Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 20th August – 26th September 2009

Artists
Tintin Cooper (TH/UK)
Adam James (UK)
Michael Lee (SG/HK)
Tanya Mahoun (CAN/TW)
Brigid McLeer (IRL/UK)
Ho Ming-Kuei (TW)
Be Takerng Pattanopas (TH)
Kamol Phaosavasdi (TH)
Nigel Power and Elias Wyber (TH/UK)
Hester Reeve (UK)
Jonathan Shaw (UK)
Steve Swindells (UK)
Carl von Weiler (NL/UK)

Unspeaking Engagements brings together an international group of visual artists who explore processes of physical and/or durational engagement as a means of constituting the artwork. Each of the artists variously explore their own or the viewers’ awareness of their body in relation to space and time. At issue are questions of how such awareness can be cultivated, registered, represented and ultimately proliferated through the work of art. Unspeaking Engagements showcases artworks as sites of shifting experiences that veer unpredictably across time, space and object-hood and in differentiation from artworks that require detached observation and propose fixed or final interpretations.