Monologue - Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity
The Monologue Dialogue series has grown from a British Council initiated and funded residency and exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand. From then onwards a series of exhibitions have taken place in Bangkok and London with an evolving and expanding group of participating artists. The last exhibition was in 2014 at the BACC (the Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre). The key focus for the artists has been to install or construct work in a space/gallery together and in some way to reflect on the transcultural nature of today’s discourse for artist.
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The exhibition MD4 will be hosted in honour of King Bhumibol Adulyadej Rama IX, whose progressive and enlightened reign has contributed to a powerful connection between Thai and British artists that will continue into future artistic dialogues between the two countries.
The title of the exhibition Mysticism and Insecurity can refer to perceptions of the mystical and magical nature of human life across all cultures; insecurity however can refer to the inability of art to fully express and realise these transcendent ideas for multiple reasons, primarily though because of the world’s materiality, because of materials being resistant, dragging against intentions even for the use of language, and symbolism. This resistance is what is most ecstatic and interesting, where the material itself whether it is paint, objects, performance or virtual media contains the magic and frailty of our existence by being resistant to manipulation. The one thing that unites us all is our materiality and a sense of ‘is-ness’.
We would like to thank The Royal Thai Embassy for their very generous support and the following: Slade School of Fine Art, Leeds College of Art, and UCL Global Engagement.
Exhibition:
The Koppel Project
93 Baker Street
London W1U 6RL
4 May - 1 July 2017
thekoppelproject.com/monologue-dialogue-4mysticism-insecurity
Essay
The essay accompanying the exhibition, A reflection by Kai Syng Tan (UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, KCL) and Andrew Stahl (UCL Slade School of Fine Art)
Art in an Insecure Age, can be downloaded in pdf format:
low res version pdf (500kb)
high res version pdf (17MB)
Monologue Dialogue 4 images
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Foreground - Yellow River by Andrew Stahl, 2017. Middle ground -Telstar by Eric Bainbridge, 2017. Background from left - The Immeasurable Art 1-2, by Sansern Milindasuta 2017. Climax A Victory by Yvonne Feng, and part of Bless My World by Panya VijinthanMonologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Nathaniel Rackowe’s DG05 and DG06 (2016), 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Temple, Tintin Cooper, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Monologue Dialogue 4, 2017
Poster
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Neil Jeffries standing by one of his relief paintings, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Bless My World and Bless My Ways, Panya Vijnthanasarn, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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A Silence In Between, Atsuko Nakamura, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Manick Govinda from ArtsAdmin, one of the guest speakers on 14 June, speaking by Rana Begum’s No 723 Mesh, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Steventon’s performance unfolds. To his left on the wall is part of Neil Jeffries’ Gylph, while to his right on the floor is part of Nathaniel Rackowe’s DG06 (2016)Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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James Steventon working in collaboration with Kai Syng Tan, performing on 16 June in front of her Crossed wor(l)ds, unfloored, brain drawing 2019 itinerary, after Brexit, Chagall, Billingham, Wes, Savage, 2017, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Be Takerng Pattanopas addressing visitors to the 4 May talk on Nipan Oranniwesna’s The Storm Continues to Rage Outside and the Wind Sweeps Relentlessly Across the Land from the Same Direction, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Curator and artist Professor Andrew Stahl speaking by Tuksina Pipitkul’s Mining Tool-playing Parts 1-3, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
The Koppel Project
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Trans-Pollock (detail), Be Takerng Pattanopa, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Spellbound (close up), Jedsada Tangtrakulwong, 2017Monologue Dialogue 4: Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, 4 May - 1 July 2017
Kai Syng Tan
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Monologue-Dialogue poster, 2017
Transcultural Art Network related
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Transcultural Art Network
– ongoing
A major part of Andrew Stahl's research in the last 30 years has been to examine and enhance the transcultural interaction between different cultures. In 2008, he established the Transcultural Artist Network, an Artist in Residence programme at the Slade.