What happens to art when an entire community becomes a museum?
In this episode, we meet Thai artist collective Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture. They take us inside a pop-up museum staged across their community as part of a biennial, and an art experiment that invites people to apply to live in an apartment. These projects grew from their ongoing exploration of Thai–Myanmar relations and their efforts to connect small local communities.
Baan Noorg began with a return home. Working amid concrete buildings, everyday labor, and relationships within the community, they continue to reshape their practice in response to the people and places around them. Their work asks what art can become when it finds a place in shared life.
This season expands on the theme of MoCA TAIPEI’s 2026 exhibition Withdrawal: Our Collective Existence, exploring how contemporary artists approach collectivity as a form of knowledge production, a strategy for survival, and an aesthetic practice. The series features conversations with artist collectives, artist-run spaces, and self-organized initiatives from Taiwan and neighboring Asian countries. Through these conversations, we look at how artists activate spaces, cultivate diverse communities, and build creative practices and collective bonds—offering a glimpse into the fluid and evolving forms of collectivity in contemporary art across Taiwan and Asia.
Outline |
03:35 What brought them home
08:18 Bangkok’s art scene
09:15 Community building as an artistic method
11:03 A web of connections: How did Baan Noorg’s members meet?
17:33 Taiwan–Thailand exchange: Rural and global at the same time
22:48 Biennial I: A pop-up museum of community history
25:09 Biennial II: Thai–Myanmar relations and sharing space across divides
53:48 Biennials and triennials: Toward a healthier way of making art
58:16 How does Baan Noorg use space?
01:02:12 The benefits and drawbacks of grants—and earning their own income
01:13:48 The romance and reality of working as a collective
Host |
Ileana Tu aka. Miss Bench
A travel-addicted curator, grassroots art critic, and observer of daily spectacles. Focuses on art institutions that exist in a “state of exception” between museums and galleries. By day, a museum professional; by night, she transforms into “Miss Bench” to conduct writing and curatorial experiments, using exhibitions to open up spaces for social dialogue.
Guest |
jiandyin
jiandyin (ji b. Ratchaburi | yin b. Chiang Mai), are interdisciplinary duo artists and curators, live and work in Ratchaburi, Thailand. Their work is research-oriented, rooted in tangible and often overlooked realities–whether historical, political, social, and marginalization, body of work approaches various modes of expression and a wide range of disciplines and mediums, through collaborations and social engagement.
Krittaporn Mahaweerarat
Krittaporn Mahaweerarat (b. Loei) is an art practitioner currently pursuing an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies. Her practice questions her role within the communities she inhabits, exploring the intersection of magical realism and empirical reality through narratives that connect human and non-human realms.
Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture is a non-profit, artist-run initiative, a fundamental strategy for community development and a service-provider for artistic practice. Located in the Nongpho subdistrict, Ratchaburi, it aims to find out possibilities for exchange, integration and co-existence within the community—locally and globally, and to build up community sustainability according to the group’s claim: Baan Noorg is Future is Now.
References |
1.Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
https://www.instagram.com/baannoorgcollaborative_th/
2.我們如何一同想像共生的下個十年–Baan Noorg藝術與社區計畫|打開–當代藝術工作站|國藝會文化交流
https://archive.ncafroc.org.tw/result?id=700eeae98fc348ee93bbf3ccac523822
3.OFF LAB#1/2014: Pop Up Museum–Model study for Nongpo community
https://www.baannoorg.org/dayofflab/pop-up-community-history-museum/
4.OFF LAB#2/2016: 365 Days: LIFE MUSE
https://www.baannoorg.org/dayofflab/365-days-life-muse-2/
-微型政治、微型歷史及其意識 再寫「365天:生活美術館」|鄭文琦|典藏 藝術觀點
https://artouch.com/art-views/content-834.html
5.OFF LAB#3/2018: Local Agents
https://www.baannoorg.org/dayofflab/local-agents/
-在地代理Logal Agents(Nongpho社區學習計畫)|打開–當代藝術工作站|國藝會文化交流
https://archive.ncafroc.org.tw/result;jsessionid=843346F64E888605280F93B6EB26228A?id=1213d78fc5ac4aae865ba9ac553ce042
6.Baan Noorg Biennial #4 Chaõ Hāus, really?: Nongpho Community International Art Festival 2024
https://www.baannoorg.org/baan-noorg-biennial4-2023-nong-pho-the-tai-yuan-diaspora/
7.documenta fifteen: ‘Churning Milk: the Rituals of Things’ (2022)
https://www.baannoorg.org/baan-noorg-documenta-fifteen/
-【卡塞爾現場】打開—當代×Baan Noorg:台泰德共創「翻攪乳海」|國藝會線上誌
https://mag.ncafroc.org.tw/article_detail?sid=837
8.NPKD (NongpoKiDdee)
https://www.baannoorg.org/npkd/
Music |
Intro music: “Vibing Over Venus” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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90. S12EP08|Baan Noorg 在泰國鄉村生產藝術:當整個社區成為美術館(ft. jiandyin & Krittaporn Mahaweerarat)
【節目簡介】
當整個社區都能成為美術館,藝術如何融入在地日常?
本集邀請泰國藝術團體 Baan Noorg 藝術與文化合作社,分享他們如何讓雙年展以游擊形式出現在社區各處,並透過公開徵選,邀請住戶入住公寓、參與藝術實驗。這些計畫也是他們長期思考緬泰關係、連結在地小型社群的方式。
從最初「返鄉」成立藝術團體開始,他們回到水泥建築、日常勞動與社群關係之中,不斷學習調整自己與作品的形狀,讓藝術不再等待一個標準的展示空間,而能在共同生活中找到自己的位置。
本季Podcast延伸自台北當代藝術館年度主展「凹陷:我們的團體生活」,探討當代藝術創作者如何透過「集體性」開展知識生產、生存策略與美學實踐。我們將討論拓展至臺灣與亞洲周邊國家的藝術團體、自營空間與自組行動,訪問如何透過空間的運用與轉譯、多元社群的經營與連結,開展創作行動與團體情感,以此記錄臺灣及亞洲當代藝術中多元且流動的集體能量。
【大綱標記】
03:35 回家的契機
08:18 曼谷的藝術生態
09:15 社群的方法=藝術的方法
11:03 蜘蛛網:Baan Noorg 的成員如何遇見彼此?
17:33 台泰交流:rural and global at the same time
22:48 雙年展一:「游擊美術館—社區的歷史」
25:09 雙年展二:緬泰,敵人如何共存在一個空間裡
53:48 雙年展/三年展:更健康的藝術生產模式
58:16 Baan Noorg 如何使用空間?
01:02:12 補助的好(與壞)(與自產)
01:13:48 團體的浪漫與現實
【主持人】
杜依玲 aka 長椅小姐
一名對旅行上癮的策展人、平民藝評人、日常中的奇觀鑒察者。
關注介於美術館與畫廊之間處於「例外狀態」的藝術機構。白天是美術館的上班族,夜晚化身爲「長椅小姐」進行書寫及策展實驗,透過展覽打開社會對話的空間。
【講者】
jiandyin
ji生於泰國拉差汶里府,yin生於泰國清邁,兩人組成跨領域藝術創作與策展雙人組,現居並工作於泰國拉差汶里府。其創作以研究為導向,立基於具體卻往往被忽略的現實,關注歷史、政治、社會與邊緣化處境等面向;創作透過協作與社會參與展開,表現形式多元,橫跨不同領域與媒材。
Krittaporn Mahaweerarat
生於泰國黎府,為藝術實踐者,目前於「公共藝術與新藝術策略」藝術創作碩士學程就讀。她的創作反思自身在所處社群中的角色,並透過連結人與非人世界的敘事,探索魔幻寫實與經驗現實的交會。
Baan Noorg 藝術與文化合作社
為非營利、由藝術家自主營運的倡議組織,以社區發展為核心策略,並為藝術實踐提供支持與服務。團體設於泰國拉差汶里府菩澤村(Nongpho),致力於探索在地與全球社群之間交流、整合與共存的可能,並秉持「Baan Noorg is Future is Now」(Baan Noorg 即未來,未來即現在)的理念,推動社區永續發展。
【參考資料】
1.Baan Noorg
https://www.instagram.com/baannoorgcollaborative_th/
2.我們如何一同想像共生的下個十年–Baan Noorg藝術與社區計畫|打開–當代藝術工作站|國藝會文化交流
https://archive.ncafroc.org.tw/result?id=700eeae98fc348ee93bbf3ccac523822
3.「游擊美術館-社區的歷史」OFF LAB#1/2014: Pop Up Museum–Model study for Nongpo community
https://www.baannoorg.org/dayofflab/pop-up-community-history-museum/
4.「365日-生活靈感」OFF LAB#2/2016: 365 Days: LIFE MUSE
https://www.baannoorg.org/dayofflab/365-days-life-muse-2/
-微型政治、微型歷史及其意識 再寫「365天:生活美術館」|鄭文琦|典藏 藝術觀點
https://artouch.com/art-views/content-834.html
5.「在地代理」OFF LAB#3/2018: Local Agents
https://www.baannoorg.org/dayofflab/local-agents/
-在地代理Logal Agents(Nongpho社區學習計畫)|打開–當代藝術工作站|國藝會文化交流
https://archive.ncafroc.org.tw/result;jsessionid=843346F64E888605280F93B6EB26228A?id=1213d78fc5ac4aae865ba9ac553ce042
6.Baan Noorg Biennial #4 Chaõ Hāus, really?: Nongpho Community International Art Festival 2024
https://www.baannoorg.org/baan-noorg-biennial4-2023-nong-pho-the-tai-yuan-diaspora/
7.documenta fifteen: ‘Churning Milk: the Rituals of Things’ (2022)
https://www.baannoorg.org/baan-noorg-documenta-fifteen/
-【卡塞爾現場】打開—當代×Baan Noorg:台泰德共創「翻攪乳海」|國藝會線上誌
https://mag.ncafroc.org.tw/article_detail?sid=837
8.NPKD (NongpoKiDdee)
https://www.baannoorg.org/npkd/
【襯樂】
片頭/片尾:
"Vibing Over Venus" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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