Biographies
Why is the River Laughing?
Michael Hornblow
Artist, Producer, Performer, Workshop Facilitator
Michael is an Artist & Researcher from New Zealand, with a multidisciplinary background across dance, performance art, architecture and design, video making, public art, and community development. He completed his PhD in the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia) and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Senselab at Concordia University in Montreal (Canada). Michael’s art presentations include Melbourne Festival, the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Sydney, Vancouver, Hong Kong), and many others. He has a long history of creative work in Asia, including training with Japanese Butoh masters in Japan, performing and curating for Melaka Festival, and participating in many festivals and artist residencies across Indonesia. Michael is based in Bangkok where he is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Buffalo Field, a performing arts festival in Nang Loeng focusing on site-specific performance and community development.
Stephen Loo
Food Artist / Performer, Workshop Facilitator
Professor Stephen Loo is Professor of Design at UNSW. He researches, teaches and practices in the transdisciplinary nexus of art, architecture, design, philosophy, performance and science. He has published widely on biophilosophy, posthumanist ethics, ecological humanities and experimental digital thinking. Recent books include Deleuze and Architecture (2012) and Poetic Biopolitics (2016) and is currently working on Speculative Ethologies (with Dr Undine Sellbach). Stephen is a founding partner of award-winning design, architecture, interpretation and exhibition practice Mulloway Studio. He has a performance-philosophy based art practice and has shown internationally in Paris, Berlin, London, Prague, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Works include Careful Whispers and the Autonomous Meridian Sensory Orchestra (in Bruised Food, curated by Marnie Badham and Francis Maravillas, Melbourne 2019), The Butcher of Nang Lerng (in Buffalo Field Festival curated by Mike Hornblow, Bangkok 2019), The Grasshopper Cabaret (with Undine Sellbach, Paris 2015) and Mistress O and the Bees (with Undine Sellbach, London 2010 and Hobart 2012).
Teerawat ‘Kage’ Mulvilai
Performer
Teerawat Mulvilai is an award-winning director and virtuosic performer with training in Butoh, Viewpoints, and other diverse physical practices. He has directed and performed in many critically acclaimed works, notably “San Dan Ka” (2009, 2013, 2014, 2018), “Flu-Fool” (2011), “Goya and Gruang” (2011), “Red Tank” (2014), “Iceberg” (2014), “Quiet House” (2016, 2019), “Something Missing” (2018) and “The (Un)Governed Body” (2019). His artistic excellence has led him to direct, perform and collaborate with international artists in Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Scotland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Togo, Benin, Egypt, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the USA. Kage is Co-Artistic Director & Founder / Director / Performer at B-Floor Theatre. bfloortheatre.org
Ploy Kasama Yamtree
Noodle boat Chef / Performer, Workshop Facilitator
Ploy Yamtree is a community architect based in Bangkok, working in the areas of knowledge management, community architecture and development. She uses participatory processes, involving design, art, architecture, planning, communication, environment, public health, and climate change. Ploy is Senior Architect and Director of Openspace, an open ground for interdisciplinary collaborations in community development; and Tar Saeng Studio, which aims to promote Universal Design knowledge and adaptation across Thailand. In addition to her work at Openspace, Ploy has coordinated projects at the regional level through her work with the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, and Community Organizations Development Institute. She has also taught at several Thai university architecture and design programs. Ploy and her team have a long history of collaboration with the Nang Loeng community, including the restoration project the Dancing House, and Buffalo Field Festival.
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Marnie Badham
Social Practice Artist, Workshop Facilitator
With a 25-year history of art and social justice in Canada and Australia, Marnie’s research sits at the intersection of social practice art, participatory methodologies, and the politics of cultural measurement. Through forms of encounter and exchange and a focus on relational ethics, Marnie’s visual art, performance, and curatorial practice brings together disparate groups of people (artists, communities, NGOs, governments) in dialogue to examine and affect local issues.
Recent creative collaborations include participatory performance in the Dandenong Ranges on eco-anxiety and extreme weather events; public art commissioning collaborations on Wurundjeri and Bunurong lands; socially-engaged art and curatorial projects on food-art-politics in Asia-Australia; and creative cartographies registering emotion in public space including Five Weeks in Spring: an emotional map of Lilydale at Yarra Ranges Gallery (2018), Pedestrian Poetics for Public Space (2020-2021), and To the fallen trees… for the Big Anxiety Festival (2022) with Tammy Wong Hulbert, and EmpowerHER: a women’s map to the city with Thompson Rivers University, Canada (2018). With Gunditjmara artist Vicki Couzens, Marnie has co-developed Listening to Country, Listening to Community: towards a co-created framework of people and place-based value and values for the Dandenong Creek Art Trail (2021) and The Power That We Have… Listen Up! (2019) with Jody Haines.
Marnie is a Chief Investigator on an Australia Research Council grant Ambitious and Fair: towards a sustainable visual arts sector, is a Director for ResArtis global network of artist residencies, and is an Associate Professor at the School of Art, RMIT University in Naarm/ Melbourne, Australia where she teaches social practice, curating and cultural production.
Jean-David Caillouët
Audio-Visual Artist
Jean-David Caillouët is a French sound and visual artist. Mixing the old with the new, his work often combines together various disciplines such as film, music (acoustic & electronic), choreography and poetry in a live performance context. He has performed internationally, playing well respected festivals such as Celtic Connections, the Edinburgh Fringe or the Big Mountain festival in Thailand or KLEX in Malaysia. As an instrumentalist and producer, he has collaborated with artists as varied as the composers Kimho Ip from Hong Kong and Anothai Nitibhon from Thailand, the multi instrumentalist and Ethnomusicologist Anant Narkkong, Cape Coast based musician Kwesi Quayson, the Scottish Indie band Aberfeldy, the Celtic singer Heather MacLeod or the independent label Panda Records. He has produced soundtracks for films, animations, theatre and dance. His work has been performed in the Royal Opera House and the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and his installation projects have been exposed in places as varied as the historical caves of Kent’s Cavern in the UK, Le Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, the Angkor Temples in Cambodia or Bangkok’s Art and Culture Center (BACC).
Sineenadh Keitprapai
Performer
Sineenadh or Nad is an actor, director, producer, performance maker, butoh practitioner and performing arts teacher. Her work employs various techniques and styles, including non-realism, movement-based performance, physical theatre, devising performance, and Butoh. Most of her works explore and reflects on women’s issues, bodies, and social concerns. She is currently a guest lecturer at several universities. In 2008, she received Silpathorn Award in performing arts from the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture, which is an honor for mid-career Thai contemporary artists. Sineenadh is currently artistic director of Crescent Moon Theatre. Now she is interested in self-learning and doing self-practice about Eco Performance and Spiritual Practice.
Gabriel Camelin
Video Artist
Gabriel Camelin is a French mix-media artist based in Bangkok. Majored in Film studies and visual communication, his work often relies on image manipulation, visual effects and collage on both video and still artworks. Gabriel is currently a full-time lecturer at Silpakorn University International College, teaching there since 2008. www.gabrielcamelin.com
Adam Nocek
Creative Collaborator / Workshop Facilitator
Adam Nocek is Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. He is the Founding Director of ASU’s Center for Philosophical Technologies, and the editor of Techniques Journal. Nocek is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Creighton University School of Medicine and Faculty in Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
Nocek recently published Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (Minnesota, 2021), and is completing his next monograph, Governmental Design: On Algorithmic Autonomy. Nocek is the co-editor of Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices, The Lure of Whitehead, along with several other collections and special issues, including a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities titled, “Ontogenesis Beyond Complexity.”
In 2021, Nocek co-founded the School of Materialist Research, along with Katerina Kolozova (Director, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje), Vera Bühlmann (Director, Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics at TU Wien), and Iris van der Tuin (Professor, Theory of Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University). Nocek was recently a faculty fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Study and held the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Professorship.
Annmanee Singhanart
Percussionist
Ann (Maneerut Singhanart), known as Annmanee, is a sound designer for live performing arts, with works both in Thailand and abroad. Her emphasis is on interaction with the environment and various sounds happening in that time and place. Annmanee is a percussionist who focuses on using spiritual instruments as a medium to connect with the universe and the state of feelings within oneself.
