Sarawut Chutiwongpeti - Bangkok, Thailand

atlantic basin project - volume one

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti is a world-renowned, Bangkok based installation and media artist. He is concerned with the language and response to contemporary arts.Sarawut graduated from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University in 1996. Since graduation, he has been working as a media artist with the Cyber Lab at the Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University. He has contributed to the development of the media arts through his artistic and research practice at a variety of noted international institutions including the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), ImaginAsia Project, Smithsonian Institution (The Freer Gallery of Art and The Arthur M.Sackler Gallery, United State of America), ZKM Project, (Institute for Visual Media, Germany), Designskolen (Denmark), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; Waseda University; Kobe University of Design (Japan), Central European University (Hungary).

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Installation Series of Untitled 2007

Artist's Concept: This art project work, a three-dimensional work and mixed media installation, focuses on the mechanisms of perception and dreams, the private world of the world of fantasy and the unconscious, the conditions underlying the system by which mind and spirit operates. At the same time, the (in)-visibility of the structure ignites a confusion in the viewers' perceptions of the work and of the space where it is placed, thus provoking an ambiguous relationship between the object, its function and its appearance and unlocks a mysterious force field on the border of truthÊand lie that is able to create unexpected angles of approach which in turn force the viewer to take up a new position in the observation of the surrounding world.

From Heartsick on an Open Sea 2005

Installation 2005

December, 2007
by lizsolo

This first edition of the Atlantic Basin Project has been made possible by the efforts of members of the Independent Artists Cooperative and its in house collective Rock Can Roll Independent and through the generous support of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.