Penwadee Manont
Penwadee Nophaket Manont was born in 1973, California, The United States of America. Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand. She has a focus in Art and Culture dialogues along with interests in Social and Environment issues. Penwadee pursued both a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communication Arts and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management. She started her career as a Graphic Designer, and shifted to the field of Art and Cultural Management by working as an Assistant Curator at Project 304 alternative art space in 2001. Later, she became part of the Curatorial Team at The Jim Thompson Art Center, during 2007-2012..Her Curatorial Projects include the Mekong Art & Culture Project: Curatorial and Traveling Exhibition (2007-2008), supported by Rockefeller Foundation and Silpakorn University, where she was one of the four Southeast Asian Art Curators for the Underlying exhibition, from Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. She also co-curated Poperomia/Golden Teardrop (2013). Penwadee founded ANTs’ POWER Art & Cultural Group, who are active on Human Rights and Democracy related issues. Research & Archiving Project includes The Exhibition History in Thailand from the 1970s to the Present, supported by The Asian Culture Center (ACC), Institute of Asian Culture Development, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Gwangju, South Korea. Penwadee worked as a Project Manager/Researcher throughout 2015.
Akiq AW
Akiq Abdul Wahid was born in 1976 in the city of Kediri, East Java. He is known as an artist and a curator. His artistic work consists of mostly photographs. In his work he frequently explores themes surrounding the everyday life of human beings, combined with how technological developments affects this daily life. He has been in numerous international exhibitions and biennale, individually and with the collective. He curated archive exhibition for Arsip!Fest held by Indonesian Visual Art Archive in 2017. Currently he is actively involved as a member of MES 56, a visual art collective.
Arham Rahman
Arham Rahman is an Indonesian curator and visual art researcher who lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He was graduated from Magister Program of Religious and Cultural Studies, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. During this time, he is working in several art and cultural communities, such as; Erupsi (Academia of Psychoanalysis, Art, and Politic), Colliq Pujie Art Movement, Study on Art Practices (SOAP), and a curatorial studies and art criticism group, SPASI. Besides doing research on art and cultural issues, he writes and curate some exhibitions on some art spaces in Yogyakarta. Now he work as a curator on Lorong Gallery. He interest on Lacanian psychoanalysis discourse, post-colonial criticism, and other approach on cultural studies. In art studies, he interest on the discourse about Indonesian art history, the political economy of art, digital art, and contemporary craft.