The China Outpost @ Santa Fe NM . MayDay – 27May 2016 . a socio-cultural intervention at public spaces along Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe New Mexico

The China Outpost
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The China Outpost @ Santa Fe New Mexico  

The China Outpost project is a nomadic self-imposed sweatshop created by Nuttaphol Ma.  The source of this undertaking is a cross section of Ma’s experiences at his retail day job and the research of his ancestral house in Southern China. Since the project’s inception in Jul 2010, Ma stages these temporal settlements throughout Los Angeles. They function as makeshift forums to perform mundane tasks of transforming discarded plastic bags into plastic threads, a material he will use as the core building material for the eventual reconstruction of his ancestral house.

As part of Ma’s residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute, The China Outpost will occupy open lots of big box stores along Cerrillos Road – a major thoroughfare leading to Santa Fe that has eroded its intimacy to a web of megastores. The sociocultural interventions at these contested sites function as make-shift forums that invite curious passerby to open ended conversations about migration and the labor of adapting to a new home. 

Duration:  Sunday May Day 2016 to Fri 27 May 2016
Week of 01May16 :
+ Sun 01May16 : Open Lot of Airport Cerrillos STORAGE . Airport Road + Cerrillos Road . noon-1p
+ Tue 03May16: Open Lot of Fashion Outlet . Beckner Road + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p
+ Wed 04May16: Open Lot of Walmart SuperCenter . Herrera Drive + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p
+ Thu 05May16: Open Lot of Santa Fe Place Mall . Rodeo Road + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p
+ Sat 07May16: Open Lot of Target . Zafarano Drive + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p

Week of 08May16 :
+ Mon 09May16: Open Lot of Lowe’s . Zafarano Drive + Cerrillos Road . noon – 2p
+ Wed 11May16: Open Lot of Home Depot. Richards Avenue + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p
+ Thu 12May16: Open Lot of Walmart. Camino Consuelo + Cerrillos Road . 3p-5p
+ Sat 14May16: Open Lot of Target . Zafarano Drive + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p

Week of 15May16 :
+ Sun 15May16: Open Lot of Walmart SuperCenter . Herrera Drive + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p
+ Mon 16May16: Open Lot of Airport Cerrillos STORAGE . Airport Road + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p
+ Tue 17May16: Open Lot of Fashion Outlet . Beckner Road + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p
+ Wed 18May16: Open Lot of Santa Fe Place Mall . Rodeo Road + Cerrillos Road . noon-2p

Week of 22May16 :
+ Mon 23May16: Open Lot of Target . Zafarano Drive + Cerrillos Road . noon-230p
+ Wed 25May16: Open Lot of Home Depot. Richards Avenue + Cerrillos Road . noon-230p
+ Thu 26May16: Open Lot of Airport Cerrillos STORAGE . Airport Road + Cerrillos Road . noon-3p

Details of these forthcoming passages along Cerrillos Road will be posted via The China Outpost’s
Twitter feed @thechinaoutpost
Instagram feed @thechinaoutpost
Tumblr feed @thechinaoutpost

performance

Cerrillos Road, contemporary art, intervention, migration, performance, santa fe, santa fe art institute

17 April 2016

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Access Denied . Creative Responses to Borders . “Bells from an Empty Flagpole” responds . Wed 20 Apr 2016 . 7-9p @ Santa Fe Art Institute

 

The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) presents an evening of screenings and performances as a response the US government denying entry visas to Salvadoran artists selected to take residence at SFAI.  The evening brings together, in solidarity, artists, filmmakers, activists, journalists and cultural producers to explore what it means to have your access to the US and access to physical safety, denied.

Participants include:  Julián Cardona (Journalist, Mexico), Mauricio Esquivel (Artist, El Salvador), Ernesto Bautista (Artist, El Salvador), Mauricio Kabistan (Artist, El Salvador), Bryan Alexis & Allegra Love (Student/Immigration Lawyer, El Salvador & USA), Israel Haros Lopez (Artist, USA & Mexico), Erika Harrsch (Artist, USA & Mexico), Tings Chak & Sheena Hoszko (Artists, Canada), Nuttaphol Ma (Artist, USA & Thailand), Carlo Abruzzese (Artist, USA), Emma FitzGerald (Artist, Canada), Lois Klassen (Artist, Canada), Gregory Waits (Architect, USA)

Date:  Wednesday 20 April 2016 . 7p-9p
Location: Santa Fe Art Institute . 1600 St. Michaels Drive . Santa Fe . NM 87505
Link:  SFAI > Access Denied . Creative Responses to Borders
Contact:  505 424 5050   .   info@sfai.org

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As part of Access Denied . Creative Responses to Borders conversation at SFAI, I will activate SFAI’s courtyard space with an installation entitled Bells from an Empty Flagpole that gestures a symbolic grafting of two plant species – one blossoms El Salvador’s national flower, flor de izote, the other gives New Mexico’s state flower, the yucca. In preparation for the work, I had asked the Salvadoran artists who were denied entry visa to the US, Ernesto Bautista and Mauricio Kabistan, to courier their cuttings of the yucca gigantea to Santa Fe. These stems, together with my cuttings that resulted from my meandering search for the desert yucca plant, will propagate within a hand-crafted container where I will continue to nurse and cultivate them throughout the duration of my residency at SFAI.

Nuttaphol Ma
10Apr2016 . Santa Fe NM USA

Exhibition, Film, Screening

contemporary art, immigration, migration, performance, santa fe art institute

10 April 2016

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Spatializing Sovereignty . 4th Annual Symposium of The Society of Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life . Friday 04 Mar 2016 10a-6p @ Mills College > Carnegie Hall . Bender Room

The Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life presents the 4th annual symposium entitled “Spatializing Sovereignty”. This year’s symposium seeks explorations of how sovereignty is spatialized at all levels. How do variously defined geographies determine the limitations and possibilities of sovereignty as concept, as process, and as discursive and political strategy?

Keynote addresses include Dr. Mishuana Goeman, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies and Gender Studies at UCLA and Gelare Khoshgozaran, writer and multidisciplinary artist.  Presenters include: Stevie Ruiz, Bedour Alagraa, Johanna Breiding, Shoghig Halajian, Dan Bustillo, Michelle Potts, Neil Nunn, Claire Urbanski, Heike Schotten, Nuttaphol Ma, Khadeeja Avvirin Gray and Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Conference Date: Friday 04 Mar 2016 . 10am – 6pm
Location:  Mills College . Bender Room @ Carnegie Hall . 5000 MacArthur Blvd . Oakland CA 94613
Full Schedule of Events:  https://radicalspacesblog.wordpress.com/2016-symposium-schedule/
Event is free and open to the public . to register: https://radicalspacesblog.wordpress.com/registration/

Conference

international conference, Mills College, Nuttaphol Ma, Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, Spatializing Sovereignty

2 March 2016

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summertimeshift . 14Jun15 – 28Jun15 . Reception > Sun 14Jun15 5p-8p @ Summercamp’s ProjectProject

Summercamp’s ProjectProject
3119 Chadwick Drive . Los Angeles CA 90032

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summertimeshift, organized by Fatima Hoang, Elonda Billera and Janice Gomez, brings together artists whose work has a shifting relationship to time, be it through sands of the hourglass, endurance, clashing of past and present, memory, or comedic timing.  Artists include:  Michael Ano, Deborah Aschheim, Neha Choksi, Kohl King, Nuttaphol Ma, Anna Mayer, David Prince, Emily Sudd and Billy Kheel in Guestroom.

14 Jun 2015 – 28 Jun 2015
Reception . Sun 14 Jun 2015 5p-8p with Musical Guests: Ray & Remora, Abe Lagrimas Jr.
Related Events
+ Michael Ano : Fountain Workshop > Sun 14Jun 5p / Sun 21 & 28 Jun 2-4p
+ Performance by Nuttaphol Ma : Sun 28 Jun 4p
Hours:  by appointment
Contact:  summercampprojectproject@gmail.com
Link:  summertimeshift @ summercamp projectproject

Exhibition

alternative art space, contemporary art, Los Angeles, summercamp projectproject

10 June 2015

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Nuttaphol Ma: Ghosts Can Cross Oceans . Curated by Ciara Ennis . 17May15 – 28Jun15 . Reception > Sun 17May15 2p-5p @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG)
4800 Hollywood Boulevard . Los Angeles CA 90027

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Nuttaphol Ma:  Ghosts Can Cross Oceans . Curated by Ciara Ennis

Ghosts Can Cross Oceans comprises a meditative sitting space on LAMAG’s balcony, which houses a white jade orchid tree that once grew in Nuttaphol Ma’s parent’s garden before being cut down. The installation references the artist’s memory of his father’s daily ritual of collecting the tree’s blossoming flowers called dawg jam bee—loosely translated as ‘flower remember year’ in Thai—to make offerings to the family altar.  Lining the perimeter of the balcony are store-purchased lemongrass plants that Ma has cultivated and brought back to life. Ghosts Can Cross Oceans navigates between longing and not BE longing and the conflicting desire for stability versus perpetual flight.

17 May 2015 – 28 Jun 2015 (***extended to September 2015***)
Reception . Sun 17 May 2015 2p-5p
Gallery Hours: Thu – Sun  > noon to 5p
Phone: 323.644.6269

Exhibition

Barnsdall Park, contemporary art, installation, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

14 May 2015

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Across the Sky . Screening at École Internationale de New York . Fri 24Apr15 . 10a-noon

École Internationale de New York (EINY)
111 E 22nd Street
New York . NY 10010

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Across the Sky by Nuttaphol Ma . Screening at EINY

Across the Sky follows a propeller to a meditative journey into a man’s past, his recollections of overflowing riverbanks, his sitting on the steps of his childhood home watching planes and kites passing by.  The film invites viewers to a poetic experience about the longing and not BE longing.

As a result of a week-long residency with EINY’s 4th and 5th Grade students in February 2015, Ma introduced the uses of symbols and meanings of kites to engage with students to open-ended dialogues about place and memory. The film incorporates students’ kite markings and their wishes across the sky into the narrative.  An artist talk will follow the screening of the film.

Film Screening & Artist Talk:  Fri 24 Apr . 10a – 11a
Contact:  Tel . 818 859 3812
Link to Across the Sky:  https://vimeo.com/125685639

Film, Screening

contemporary art, EINY, film, poetry

22 April 2015

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The China Outpost > on the road . Open Engagement 2015 / Place and Revolution 17-19 Apr 2015

Open Engagement (OE2015) is an international conference and platform to support socially engaged art. The three-day conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University from 17-19 April and explore the theme of Place and Revolution.

The China Outpost is thrilled and honored to be selected as part of OE2015 Open Platform programming. Nuttaphol Ma will present his on-going project entitled The China Outpost > on the road, a nomadic self-imposed sweatshop created by Ma.  Over the years, Ma has staged temporal settlements throughout Los Angeles.  They function as make-shift forums to demonstrate how the artist transforms discarded plastic bags into plastic threads, a material he will use as the core building material for the reconstruction of his ancestral house.  The sociocultural intervention invites passerby to conversations about migration and the labor of adapting to a new home.  As part of OE2015, Ma will present The China Outpost’s contextual backdrop, highlight significant events that shape its current form and share future direction of the project.

Conference Date: 17 Apr – 19 Apr 2015
Full Schedule of Events:  http://openengagement.info/attend/schedule/
Open Engagement:  http://openengagement.info/attend/pittsburgh-2015/
Contact:  openengagement@gmail.com
The China Outpost > on the road . Presentation:
SAT 18Apr2015 . 1540-1600 . Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
1/F College of Fine Art Building . Carnegie Mellon University

Conference

Carnegie Mellon University, international conference, Nuttaphol Ma, Open Engagement, The China Outpost

15 April 2015

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