The chair is pleased to invite you to the presentation by Sorayut Aiemueayut and artn't. Sorayut Aiemueayut is a lecturer in visual anthropology at the department of Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai University. artn’t is the group of artist in Chiang Mai. The event will be held on Thursday, July 13 from 10am-12pm.
After the 2014 Thai coup d’état, the authoritarianism of the military government has been criticized in the multi-media, and the aesthetic of resistance has become textures that stimulate the social body and political consciousness to have a new experience of saying the unsayable in Thai society. This talk focuses on how street art in Thailand part of the new youth movement is. Specifically, the role of the artn’t collective, based in the Northern city of Chiang Mai that seeks a better democratic future for their country. With Inspiration from Peter Weiss’s aesthetic of resistance, a German writer and painter (1916 - 1982), artn’t (pronounced “art – unt”) is a play on continuous resistance movements under the symbiosis of state and the capital standardization, with the question of how the Thai artists can liberate themselves from the aesthetic domination, and speak to the power through the art.
The members of artn’t have been targeted for penal charges under Section 112 of the criminal code, Thailand’s Lèse-majesté law, and Section 116 on incitement toward sedition.