MITTing: Art and Cultural Network Forum 緬印台泰文藝交流論壇

時間：2014年2月8 - 9日
地點：URS 21中山創意基地(台北市中山區民生東路一段21號)

主辦單位：打開－當代藝術工作站、jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
協辦單位：忠泰建築文化藝術基金會、竹圍工作室
參與者：打開－當代藝術工作站、jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)、Moe Satt (Beyond Pressure) 、Leonhard Bartolomeus (Ruangrupa)、Helmi Hardian and Debrina Tedjawidjaja (Waft Lab)、Narawan Pathomvat (The Reading Room)、高森信男（奧賽德工廠）、張正（四方報）、鄭美雅（台北當代藝術中心）
策劃人：呂岱如

【論壇介紹】
MITT作為緬甸、印尼、台灣、泰國間藝術家團體的一個臨時性藝術與文化網絡，同時也作為一個聚合集體能量去共同想像區域間對話與交流的動詞。為了進一步回應並探索新自由主義全球經濟體系與各自的政治脈絡下，藝術家的行動力與組織，MITT的會面將是一個檢視藝術實踐者如何應用自主性的行動來穿越既定疆界，與耕耘未來文化生產的共通性文法的機會。

MITT的提出並非作為一個固定的組織，而是在我們共享共處之區域間的一份聯繫、一個聚會、一個對友誼的邀請。這是將我們在大型文化運作機制、藝術市場、全球化系統之部署影響以外，直接標繪新的會面點的行動。這樣的聚會也反應了一種區域間小型藝術團體的新批判傾向，以諸眾建構異議空間，生產草根性並具有區域性認同的機制風景，協助彼此促進創造屬於自己的另類藝術系統、經濟循環以及藝術生產裡新的文化匯率與開放共享資源（commons）。

MITTing: Art and Cultural Network Forum緬印台泰文藝交流論壇的舉辦作為一個新的文化生產啓動器，有兩個工作目標：其一是回顧過去我們文化交流工作的方法學，並尋找新的生產載具和形式；其二在於啓動我們對於MITTing的對話與想像，討論其對於未來區域性網絡發展的意義與可能性。藉由讓每次的MITTing / meeting都成為一個生產現場，我們將自己放置在現在進行式的行動之間，在第一階段共同編寫出新的語彙與字典，讓自身成為社會介媒，以獨立且集體的參與度來活化區域間藝術的發展。藉由讓每次交流都成為一種具有生產性的聚合，MITT將作為一個動詞，在未來幾年內扮演區域內藝術交流的關鍵角色。

【論壇議程】
2014年2月8日　藝術組織工作報告
10:00 – 11:00　打開－當代藝術工作站 / 陳嘉壬（台灣）
11:00 – 12:00　Jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)（泰國）
13:00 – 14:00　Beyond Pressure / Moe Satt（緬甸）
14:00 – 15:00　Ruangrupa / Leonhard Bartolomeus（印尼）
15:00 – 15:30　茶敘
15:30 – 16:30　Waft Lab / Helmi Hardian and Debrina Tedjawidjaja（印尼）
16:30 – 17:30　The Reading Room / Narawan Pathomvat（泰國）

2014年2月9日
10:00 - 13:00　東南亞藝文生產網絡的觀察與實踐提案
報告人：高森信男（奧賽德工廠）、Leonhard Bartolomeus、張正（四方報）
14:30 - 17:30　微型藝術團體之組織與生存
座談與會者：Helmi Hardian、Moe Satt、Narawan Pathomvat、鄭美雅（台北當代藝術中心）

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Date: February 8-9, 2014
Venue: URS 21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei (No. 21, Sec. 1, Minsheng E. Rd., Zhongshan
Dist., Taipei City 104, TAIWAN R.O.C)

Organized by Open-Contemporary Art Center (OCAC), jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Co-organized by JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture, Bamboo Curtain Studio
Participants: OCAC, jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai), Moe Satt (Beyond Pressure), Leonhard Bartolomeus (Ruangrupa), Helmi Hardian and Debrina Tedjawidjaja (Waft Lab), Narawan Pathomvat (The Reading Room), Nobuo Takamori (Outsiders Factory), Cheng Chang (4-Way Voice), Meiya Cheng (Taipei Contemporary Art Center)
Curated by Esther Lu

-Introduction
MITT stands for a temporary art and cultural network among artist initiatives from Myanmar, Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand is a verb to cluster collective efforts in imagining regional dialogues and exchanges. To reflect and explore our mobility and operations conditioned in the neo-liberalism global economy and our local political contexts, the meeting of MITT is an opportunity to examine how the autonomous mobility of art practitioners could transgress the existing boundaries and cultivate common grammars for the future cultural production.

MITT is proposed not as a fixed organization, but a connection, a gathering and an invitation for friendship in our shared region. It is also an action that transcribes our desire for charting new meeting points among ourselves beyond the direct influence of much bigger cultural mechanisms, art market and globalization. This meeting shall reflect a new critical tendency for small-scale artist initiatives around the region to contribute and construct the space of agonism with multitudes, and produce a shared institutional landscape rooted from and identified with the region that would help us all to generate an alternative art system of our own, economy of circulation, and new cultural currency and commons for artistic practices.

MITTing: Art and Cultural Network Forum is organized as a processor to meet two aims: a) reviewing our cultural exchange methodology and seek for new vehicles and forms of production; b) opening dialogues and imaginations on what MITTing is and could be as a regional network for the future. With every MITTing / meeting becomes a site of production, we launch ourselves in the present action for growing our new vocabulary and dictionary together in the first phase, make social agents out of ourselves and enrich the development of regional art with individual and collective participations.

-Forum Agenda
February 8 (Sat)
This Is What We Do: Introduction of Each Artist Initiative
10:00 – 11:00 OCAC / Chia-Jen Chen (Taiwan)
11:00 – 12:00 jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai) (Thailand)
13:00 – 14:00 Beyond Pressure / Moe Satt (Myanmar)
14:00 – 15:00 Ruangrupa / Leonhard Bartolomeus (Indonesia)
15:00 – 15:30 Tea Break
15:30 – 16:30 Waft Lab / Helmi Hardian and Debrina Tedjawidjaja (Indonesia)
16:30 – 17:30 Narawan Pathomvat / The Reading Room (Thailand)

February 9 (Sun)
10:00 – 13:00 Art and Cultural Networks Development and Proposals in Southeast Asia
Presentation by Nobuo Takamori (Outsiders Factory), Leonhard Bartolomeus, Cheng Chang (4-Way Voice)
14:30 – 17:30 Small Artist Initiatives’ Organizational and Survival Strategies
Panel discussion with Helmi Hardian, Moe Satt, Narawan Pathomvat, Meiya Cheng (Taipei Contemporary Art Center)