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July 1-3, Faculty of Arts – Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand

APARN conference 2025

APARN2025 — Artistic Research for Creative Communities

Faculty of Arts – Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand


The conference will explore the interplay of innovative approaches to research in and through the arts and the formation of creative communities. It asks for contributions that consider how various modes of artistic research can enrich community life and how communities contribute to new ways of artistic knowing and doing. We invite proposals that engage a range of artistic practices, concepts and research methods, and connect to, affect, generate, challenge, and reconstitute community life.


Taking an inclusive approach to artistic research, this conference welcomes contributors working in modes of artistic practice such as architecture, design, fine art, media and digital arts, music and performing arts, creative writing, circus, and inter- and trans-disciplinary work. We encourage proposals from diverse voices and perspectives, whether from academic institutions, artistic collectives, civil society organizations, or independent researchers or artists, particularly those from the Asia Pacific region. We seek contributors to share their innovative modes research and practice, help to foster critical dialogue and collaboration, and to explore the transformative potential of Artistic Research for (re)generating thriving and sustainable communities.


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KEY PERFORMANCE

No.60

by Pichet Klunchun Dance Company

* Performance donation (800 Baht/seat) will be in cash at the registration desk on the first day of Conference *

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Where is location

Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts, 6 Fl. Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University

Conference Tracks

Conference topics area

Artistic Research for Creative Communities

How can artistic research engage, inform and transform creative communities?

Art Practices for Place–making and Community Building

How can place-based, community-driven, arts-based projects serve as catalysts for social innovation in a changing environment?

Transdisciplinary and Hybrid Artistic Research for Reimagining Community

How can inter-, trans-disciplinary and hybrid work of artistic research help to rethink forms of collective life and action to address critical societal, economic, and environmental challenges?

Connecting Artistic Knowledge to Resilient Communities

How can local artists use their knowledge and practice to generate resilient communities?

Learning to Create with Communities

How can educators, artists, and communities collaborate to revitalize and empower communities?

Artistic Research and Innovation Ecosystems

How to integrate artistic research into larger research and innovation ecosystems to drive social innovation?

Art Transformng Communities

How can collaborations between artists, activists and communities produce creative alternatives and social change?

Imaginaries of a Better World

How can collaborations among artists, cultural workers, researchers, and communities contribute to building more just and sustainable futures?

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

APARN2025 convenors

Pornrat Damrhung

Department of Dramatic Arts – Chulalongkorn University – Bangkok

Piyawat Thamkulangkool

Department of Dramatic Arts – Chulalongkorn University – Bangkok

Lowell Skar

BALAC Program – Chulalongkorn University – Bangkok

Gunalan Nadarajan

University of Michigan

Danny Butt

Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

Kurniawan Adi Saputro

Institut Seni Indonesia (Yogyakarta)

Roopesh Sitharan

Multimedia University – MMU Cyberjaya