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Baan Noorg × Video Art Guerrilla
In April, Ziyi and I stayed at Baan Noorg, an art collective in Nong Pho village, Ratchaburi, Thailand. While adapting to the intense heat, we worked with the team on filming for Ziyi’s project. During our stay, we were lucky to join Baan Noorg’s 15th anniversary celebration, celebrate Songkran festival together, and experience the village’s diverse local cultures.
My favorite moments were the quiet walks along the river every morning and evening. From graffiti on houses to the flavor in ice cream shop, traces of Baan Noorg’s art projects could be found throughout the village. Through conversations and research, I began to understand how they learn from local communities and sustain long-term art projects. There were so many inspiring moments of realizing: “art can also work like this! ”👀
During the day, we worked together and relearned communication and collaboration within a local context. I witnessed how Baan Noorg nurtures a sustainable and inclusive art ecosystem — rooted in the community while remaining internationally connected. At night, we cooked and hung out together. Through everyday life, we practiced coexistence, understanding, and trust.
Thank you to all the artists, curators, and interns I met here, and thank you Baan Noorg for creating a space where people can gather, share, and grow together.
On our last night, we had a picnic by the lake, watching the sunset fade, the full moon rise, and lightning flicker in the distance. We pulled tarot cards together, welcomed the first rain of the month, and carried this collective energy into the next stage of creation 🧚
baannoorg Open Studio Review:
COMMON DRAUGHT: Gecko Human Stray dog Stray cat & Other
Artist: Haruki Funakoshi
Curator: Luna Hapsari
baannoorg AIR open studio
At Nongpho bus stop (Up-side) l baannoorg Commulab
Haruki Funakoshi is supported by The Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation
Co-operated institutions: KIKA Contemporary Art Space l ICA Kyoto Institute of Contemporary Arts Kyoto
Organized by baannoorg
Summary of curatorial statement by Luna Haspari
Funakoshi’ s practice often draws from the ordinary conditions of everyday life. Working with readily available objects and non-transcendent materials,
he approaches reality not through transformation but subtle intervention. While developing this work in Ratchaburi, Funakoshi encountered the local tradition of nang yai, the large-scale shadow puppet historically preserved in the region.
Known for its intricately carved leather figures animated through light and shadow, the form reveals how carved surfaces can generate images through the simple interaction of light and projection.
Rather than reproducing the tradition itself, Funakoshi draws inspiration from the relationship between carving, light, and shadow in nang yai.
The blue striped sheets commonly used as shade structures at construction sites in Thailand are carved with the image of electric fans, objects that we habitually rely on for cooling. However, unlike fans or air conditioners, shade offers relief without consuming additional energy that further warms the planet. In this sense, shade becomes a quiet but essential form of climate infrastructure. Through this gesture, Haruki raises a simple yet urgent question: how might we learn to live differently with the sun in a warming world?
Photo: Ubatsat, Haruki Funakoshi, BaanNoorg, Sakarin Krue-on
15 years, for a place, is an accumulation of time; for us, it is also the slow becoming of a relationship. Through years of collaboration, exchange, and shared moments, the connection between OCAC, jiandyin, and Baan Noorg has gradually unfolded beyond artistic collaboration, extending from projects into the textures of everyday life, and from working together into each other’s lives.
Our paths first crossed through the Taiwan–Thailand exchange: ThaiTai. Through residencies, exhibitions, and curatorial work, we slowly grew closer. What was shared was not only works and ideas, but also ways of living, rhythms of time, and modes of sensing. In different places, we formed temporary grounds to gather, and through continuous movement, carried these connections forward.
Relations are not defined by achievement, but emerge and take shape over time as a process of becoming. Like family, we are drawn toward one another and remain in support of one another. Thank you for allowing art to become more than a passage between projects, but a place where we can dwell together over time, a place of long companionship.
May the future hold things yet to be named, and places we have yet to arrive at, waiting for us to explore together.
Happy Birthday @baannoorgcollaborative_th
My first contact with Baan Noorg was from the end of 2020. I saw Nong Pho through the eyes of my tour guides Oat, View, Win and Toon and I played with Chak, Jean, JJ, Atom, Tam and Tan in the neighborhood that I worked with.
I stayed and over the course of five years I watch them grow along with every other things that constantly changed in the village. Some moved away, others moved in. I moved a lot as a child too so I wonder sometimes what would their journeys be like.
Baan Noorg is now fifteen like some of them. Keep growing steadily, Happy Birthday Baan Noorg!
#baannoorgisfutureisnow #baannoorg15thanniversary
Title :ASEAN
Participant- Dawei women (low wage workers) in Thailand.
Place- In front of their tiny apartment.
#Credit
365 days: LIFE MUSE [A Model Study for Nongpho Communitys Foreign Labourers] project, 2015-2016
by Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
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Common Draught: Gecko l Human l Stray dog l Stray cat & Others
Artist: Haruki FUNAKOSHI (JP)
Curator: Luna Hapsari (ID)
Date: 28 3 2026, 14:30-17:00 pm
Venue: Nongpho bus stop l baannoorg commulab
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Summary curatorial statement
“Rather than reproducing the tradition itself, Funakoshi draws inspiration from the relationship between carving, light, and shadow in Nang Yai. The blue striped sheets commonly used as shade structures at construction sites in Thailand are carved with the image of electric fans, objects that we habitually rely on for cooling. However, unlike fans or air conditioners, shade offers relief without consuming additional energy that further warms the planet. In this sense, shade becomes a quiet but essential form of climate infrastructure. Through this gesture, Haruki raises a simple yet urgent question: how might we learn to live differently with the sun in a warming world?
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คัดย่อจากบทภัณฑารักษ์
“การทำงานของฟุนาโกชิ มักดึงแรงบันดาลใจมาจากเงื่อนไขธรรมดา ๆ ของชีวิตประจำวัน เขาใช้สิ่งของที่มีอยู่แล้วและวัสดุพื้น ๆ เพื่อเข้าใกล้ความเป็นจริงไม่ใช่ด้วยการเปลี่ยนรูป แต่ด้วยการแทรกแซงอย่างละเอียดอ่อน
แทนที่การทำจำลองตัวประเพณีหนังใหญ่ซึ่งเป็นมหรสพการเชิดเงาในพื้นที่ศึกษา ฟุนาโกชิ ดึงแรงบันดาลใจจากความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างการตอกฉลุ แสง และเงาในหนังใหญ่ และใช้ผ้าใบลายทางสีน้ำเงินที่มักใช้เป็นโครงสร้างบังแดดตามไซต์ก่อสร้างในประเทศไทย นำมาตอกฉลุเป็นภาพพัดลมไฟฟ้า เครื่องใช้ที่เราพึ่งพาเพื่อคลายร้อนอยู่เสมอ ๆ อย่างไรก็ตาม ที่บังแดดบรรเทาความร้อนโดยไม่ต้องผลาญพลังงานซึ่งยิ่งทำให้ดาวเคราะห์ดวงนี้อุ่นขึ้น ต่างจากพัดลมหรือเครื่องปรับอากาศ ในที่นี้ที่บังแดดจึงกลายเป็นโครงสร้างพื้นฐานด้านภูมิอากาศที่นิ่งเงียบแต่จำเป็น ฟุนาโกชิ ตั้งคำถามที่เรียบง่ายทว่าเร่งด่วนผ่านท่าทีเชิงศิลปะว่า เราเรียนรู้ที่จะอยู่กับดวงอาทิตย์อย่างแตกต่างออกไป ในโลกที่กำลังร้อนขึ้นได้อย่างไร”
Curatorial statement translator: Krittaporn Mahaweerarat
Haruki Funakoshi is supported by The Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation
Co-operated institutions: KIKA Contemporary Art Space l ICA Kyoto Institute of Contemporary Arts Kyoto
Organized by baannoorg
Poster: Baan Noorg, Handout: Harue Funakoshi
What does it mean to be alternative or independent in contemporary art?
Situated within the socio-cultural and policy context of Thailand, Vasita Jirathiyut’s research highlights how Baan Noorg navigates tensions between autonomy and institutionalisation, offering valuable reflections on collective practice, collaborative work, and governance.
You can access Vasita’s work and other publications by/about Baan Noorg on baannoorg.org/baan-noorg-publication.
This excerpt was harvested by Luna Hapsari, curator and cultural worker based between Jakarta and the Banda islands, Indonesia. Her practice is grounded in historical and cultural sensitivity, community engagement, and collective care. Luna is currently on a curatorial and research residency/internship program at Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture.
Read the research’s findings and other publications by/about Baan Noorg on baannoorg.org/baan-noorg-publication.
Welcome Luna Hapsari
Internship program session #2 l 2026
26 February - 9 April 2026
Curatorial and Research Residency program
Short Bio:
Luna Hapsari is a curator and cultural worker based between Jakarta and Banda Naira, Indonesia. Her practice is grounded in historical and cultural sensitivity, community engagement, and collective care, using curatorial practice and art management to reexamine history, amplify local knowledge, and challenge center–periphery dynamics.
She is a member of the Girls Pay the Bills art collective and Rame-Rame Jakarta foundation. As an independent curator, she is currently working on the revitalisation of the Banda Cultural Museum and the establishment of the Banda Artepelago artspace in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia.
This residency emphasises community engagement, participatory process, and situated knowledge, positioning curatorial practice and arts management as tools for fostering relationships, knowledge exchange, and supporting sustainable local cultural ecosystems.
During the program, the resident engages in curatorial research, program development, and project coordination while contributing to the organisational and operational life of Baan Noorg as an artist-run space.
Her residency at baannoorg is supported by SAM Fund for Art and Ecology.
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#baannoorgcollective
#baannoorginternship
baannoorg welcome Haruki Funakoshi for AIR program 2027
Session #1/2027
Month: 2-4 2027
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Haruki FUNAKOSHI: Short Bio
Funakoshi was born 1999 in Shizuoka, Japan. He lives and work in Kyoto. He graduated Master degree from Kyoto University of the Arts in 2024 Global Seminar. He creates his works by overlapping his own daily life with the daily lives of others and other species, creating the context of the place. For example, he set up a home run target on the indoor wall for a boy who was practicing batting practice in a park that could be seen from the window of the exhibition space, or placed a manju (a sweet bun) under a cherry tree and waited for cherry petals to fall on it. Rather than preparing the work in advance, Funakoshi produces/purchases and installs minimal gestures, like instructions, starting from events experienced during his residency or the exhibition period. The involvement of others and other kinds of behavior through maintenance and retraction sets up a situation in which much of the production is delegated and facilitated.
Haruki Funakoshi is supported by Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation
Cooperated institutions: ICA Kyoto, Institute of Contemporary Arts
and KIKA Contemporary Art Space, Kyoto
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#baannoorgeducation
#baannoorgcollective
#baannoorgairprogram
A recap of the visit of the Selection Committee for the 2025 Art City Community Capacity Development Project, during a field visit to Ratchaburi Province, finalists of the 3 provinces. The committee members included Prof. Ark Fongsmut, Prof. Sing Inthrachuto, Mr. Wannasak Sirila, Ms. Lakkhana Kunawichayanon, Mr. Sirisak Khotphatcharin, and Prof. Hattakarn Areeasilp, together with officers from the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC).
The delegation attended a presentation of previous projects implemented by Bannoorg and reviewed future plans, before proceeding to Mueang District to meet provincial representatives, including the Deputy Governor, Prof. Sakarin Khrua-on, Tiw Wasinburee, and others. We sincerely thank the committee members for dedicating their time to ask questions, show interest, provide guidance, and thoughtfully share their opinions with the team.
เก็บตกย้อนหลัง วันที่คณะกรรมการพิจารณารอบคัดเลือก 3 จังหวัดสุดท้าย เพื่อพัฒนาศักยภาพสู่การเป็นเมืองแห่งศิลปะ ประจำปี 2568 ภายใต้โครงการพัฒนาศักยภาพชุมชนสู่การเป็นเมืองแห่งศิลปะ Art City ลงพื้นที่จังหวัดราชบุรี ได้แก่ อาจารย์อรรฆย์ ฟองสมุทร, รองศาสตราจารย์สิงห์ อินทรชูโต, นายวรรณศักดิ์ ศิริหล้า, คุณลักขณา คุณาวิชยานนท์, นายศิริศักดิ์ คชพัชรินทร์ และผู้ช่วยศาสตราจารย์หัตถกาญจน์ อารีศิลป พร้อมด้วยเจ้าหน้าที่ สศร. แวะเยี่ยมชมโครงการที่บ้านนอกฯดำเนินงานที่ผ่านมา และแผนงานในอนาคต ก่อนจะไปอำเภอเมือง พบปะตัวแทนจังหวัด รองผู้ว่าฯ อาจารย์สาครินทร์ เครืออ่อน อาจารย์ติ้ว วศินบุรี ฯลฯ ขอขอบคุณคณะกรรมการฯ ได้ให้เวลา ซักถามข้อมูล ให้ความสนใจ แนะนำ และแสดงความคิดเห็นกับทีมงานอย่างตั้งใจ
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