Prapat Jiwarangsan
Dublin Core
Title
Prapat Jiwarangsan
Subject
Description
In 2018, Prapat Jiwarangsan was awarded a fellowship from the Japan Foundation Asia Center to develop a project on migrant workers in Singapore. On occasion of a fieldtrip to the country, the artist chanced upon Koi Glai Ban (Persons Far from Home), a compilation of short biographies—edited by the late scholar Pattana Kitiarsa—penned by Thai migrant workers. He took particular interest in the stories of oppression and resistance recounted by Ploy, a woman who was employed as a sex worker in a makeshift “jungle brothel” located in the scant forestry of the island city-state. Inspired by Ploy’s diary entry, the artist’s investigation aims to excavate underground stories of transnational labour and frame them within processes of land appropriation for cultural, economic, and leisure pursuits. During the residency, Jiwarangsan will expand his research on migrant workers’ relationship to woodlands with the goal of developing a medium-length documentary film and a new series of works.
Date
3 January – 27 March 2020
Contributor
Coverage
Residency Item Type Metadata
Short Description
Jiwarangsan will expand his research on migrant workers’ relationship to woodlands with the goal of developing a medium-length documentary film and a new series of works.
Cycle
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Files
Collection
Citation
“Prapat Jiwarangsan,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 18, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/1345.
Item Relations
This Item | Is Part Of | Item: On AiR with Prapat Jiwarangsan |
This Item | Is Part Of | Item: Residencies OPEN x Singapore Art Week |
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Item: Residencies Insights: Wandering Ghosts, Screening and Q&A with Prapat Jiwarangsan (Thailand), Artist-in-Residence | Is Part Of | This Item |