Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture

Est. since 2011, Ratchaburi
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Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture (Baan Noorg or บ้านนอก; noun: countryside or rural area), is a non-profit, artist-run initiative, with a fundamental strategy for community development; it is also a service-provider for artistic practice. It is located in Nongpho district, Ratchaburi and was founded by artists jiandyin (Jiradej Meemalai and Pornpilai Meemalai) in 2011, with jiandyin, Lo Shih Tung, Hsu Chia Wei and Sakarin Krue-On as its members of the board. It aims to determine the possibilities for exchange, integration and co-existence within the community — locally and globally, and to build up community sustainability according to the group’s slogan: Baan Noorg is Future is Now.

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Its main programs include day OFF LABoratory (OFF LAB), an alternative interdisciplinary art and community-as-case study program, organised biennially (Baan Noorg Biennial), based on post-studio and participatory practices, NongpoKiDdee (NPKD), and NPKD Social Enterprise aims to cultivate awareness towards cultural identity, community knowledge, resourcing, and environmental consciousness, and thereby encourage the local community members to become agents and co-create their own cultural-political capital. Baan Noorg' participated in documenta fifteen, Kassel, Germany (2022), Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial Guangzhou, Chiana (2022), Ring Project: Metaphors about Islands, Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia 2021, the Green Island Human Rights Art Festival, Green Island, Taiwan 2020.
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Photo : Awika Samukrsaman