SOI Project 2005 @ YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2005 


...One of the foremost events in this blossoming socio-cultural phenomenon is “SOI Music Festival” which has become a saga for the Thai and Japanese music enthusiasts as an exciting transnational collaboration.... The word “SOI”, or “small alley” in Thai represents the conceptual implications of how Thai and Japanese artists inter-connect in inner city Bangkok and Tokyo while straddling different genres of their artistic practices.

In 2005, the organising committee of YOKOHAMA 2005－Yokohama's second International Triennale of Contemporary Art －has invited the “SOI” team to participate in the festival which incorporates interdisciplinary artistic approaches.

...Designed specifically for Yokohama 2005, SOI Project is a laboratory-like unit that will showcase the collaborations between artists and those within the circle of contemporary non-mainstream culture in Thailand. 


SOI Project 2005 @ YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2005
27 September – 18 December 2005
Yokohama City, Japan 


Background
For the past five years, the emergence of non-mainstream music scene in Thailand has been gathering an overwhelming momentum. It has been triggered by the rising interest in the eclectic mixtures of live music, audio-visual performances, and short films and music video competitions. Meanwhile, it has coincidentally provided a new open-ended space for the like-minds with profound passions in arts, films, photography, new media, literature, fashion, design and architecture to come together and create a new, thriving community. By leaping into a wider context other than the usual visual art realm, these interdisciplinary practices have been slowly reaching out to a bigger range of audiences.

One of the foremost events in this blossoming socio-cultural phenomenon is “SOI Music Festival” which has become a saga for the Thai and Japanese music enthusiasts as an exciting transnational collaboration. The project has been featuring live performances by Thai and Japanese bands with a successful start in 2003 with Moderndog headlining the event in Tokyo. The word “SOI”, or “small alley” in Thai represents the conceptual implications of how Thai and Japanese artists inter-connect in inner city Bangkok and Tokyo while straddling different genres of their artistic practices.

In 2005, the organising committee of YOKOHAMA 2005－Yokohama's second International Triennale of Contemporary Art －has invited the “SOI” team to participate in the festival which incorporates interdisciplinary artistic approaches. The festival builds on the success of YOKOHAMA 2001 which attracted over 300,000 visitors. For this year, it will feature the works of approximately 80 participating artists from Japan and all over the world. The group exhibitions will take place in two prominent warehouses. The special emphases of the “Art Circus (Jumping from the Ordinary)”1 seek to remove the barriers between artists and art lovers, and create a fresh space for artistic encounters.

Concepts of SOI Project 2005
Designed specifically for Yokohama 2005, SOI Project is a laboratory-like unit that will showcase the collaborations between artists and those within the circle of contemporary non-mainstream culture in Thailand. The project assembles artists from diverse backgrounds and practices. All the artists will strive to reach a new plane of creative height via eclectic collaborations. The process and results are expected to experimental and spontaneous. The selected artists will work with musicians from both Thailand and Japan. The collaborating frameworks will open up a new arena for artists and participants as it will possess no boundaries. The artists are granted an absolute autonomy where they can blend their works of arts directly with musical performances so that they can fine tune the two platforms together. The artists can collaborate without any restrictions and are free to invite other professionals to be involved in their works as well. These procedures will aim to spark and regenerate the new kinds of artistic kinetics and cultural synergies. The platform is simply based on the shared creativity, and responds directly to the idea of “Sanook”, an multi-faceted, intrinsic ideology of good ole Thai “fun”.

“SOI PROJECT” is comprised of two main parts. The “SOI PROJECT EXHIBITION” displays the collaborating works and activities between artists and musicians in the context of an art exhibition for the period of three months. Another part is “SOI MUSIC FESTIVAL” which includes the other forms of collaborations in the context of live music performances on stage. The latter activity will take place during the last week of October 2005.

Artists
1. Pinaree Sanpitak
2. Udom Taepanich
3. Wisut Ponnimit
4. Angkrit Ajchariyasophon

Schedule:
Exhibition
September 27 – December 18, 2005
At Yamashita Pier, Yokohama City

Music Festival
Saturday, 29 October
Venue: Bankart, Yokohama City
Featuring: Cornelius , Cliquetpar, Moderndog 

Sunday, 30 October
Venue: Bankart, Yokohama City
Featuring: Kiiii , Kaji Hideki, Bear Garden, Stylish Nonesense, Penguin Villa ,
Futon , Nomiya Maki




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