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Chumpon Apisuk was unable to attend Currency 2002 due to illness. He was represented by a video entitled: "freedom from existence / a declaration" from a workshop in Japan in 2002.
Chumpon was born on 7 November 1948 in Nan, a northern province in Thailand.
Studied Art At Changsilpa
School, Silapakorn University / Bangkok and at the Museum School of Fine
Arts / Boston, Massachusette, USA. He also studied with Tang Chang a famous
Thai contemporary poet/painter during 1968-70.
He is known for his
activism in AIDS and Human Rights works, he is also working with EMPOWER
Foundation, which was founded by his partner Chantawipa Apisuk, an organization
advocates for the rights of sex workers in Thailand. He has been continuously
promotes performance art in Thailand since 80s and is one of a number of
well known performance artists in Asia.
Since 1996, he has
performed in Germany, England, Quebec, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam,
Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, Australia and USA.
He founded the Concrete
House in 1993, an art and community space, the only performance art venue
in Thailand is well known for its unique character. He is also a founder
and director of "Asiatopia - an Asian Performance Art Festival in Bangkok".
His audio installation
work "ALIVE - a conversation with a friend living with HIV", was
selected for exhibition at Sydney Biennial in 1998, and was invited to speak
at Asia & Pacific Triennial in Brisbane.
His recent writing
about contemporary art movement in Thailand "Politic of Art in Thailand",
is published in "Art Action, 1958-1998", by Inter/editeur, Quebec.
His performance work
is an assemblage of eventful interaction with the audience led by political
and conflicts of ideal world and reality, juxtaposition of live video and
images projection.
His work is full of activities, energetic interaction and humorous.
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