About
I want to lie down next to you in my garden of screen-sculptures. In these tiny worlds, I extend an invitation to be outsiders transplanted into assemblages of unsettled family vignettes and landscapes. My work exists in loops; fragmented timelines that cover us like a blanket. These glimpses are partial perspectives I collected to try to make sense of the world constantly in motion. Ahead of us, our memories are suspended in time, out of time, unfurling with time; moments superimposing until they become bright — blinding.
Bhumikorn (”Bhu”) Kongtaveelert
Born in 2003, Nakhonsawan, TH.
Raised in Bangkok, TH.
Lives and works in Stanford, CA, USA.
I am an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who creates immersive installations of moving images projected on soft and sometimes translucent surfaces, stretched taut across rigid frames. I construct spaces that investigate questions too large to contain on a page: How might archives be portals to access intergenerational resilience and interspecific kinship? How do we acknowledge historical violence of systems while cultivating empathy to look forward to collective futures? What does the practice of care and belonging look like in uncertain times?
At the Stanford Institute for Diversity in the Arts, I was taught that art can be a strategy to uplift marginalized voices, that we have to try to embody liberation before we achieve them. My art practice is an exploration of how I can practice solidarities with Asian American communities, to speak nearby and beside interrelated cultures in search of liberation. By conducting oral history interviews, I hope to transform my worlds into a space of collective remembering, reflecting on diverse, situated perspectives on how the past continues to act in the present, and how we can continue to care for each other amidst uncertain times.
I am currently a student artist-in-residence of Recology San Francisco. My works have been featured at FOG Art+Design Fair, Et Al. Gallery, Kearney Street Workshop, SOMArts, Good Mother Gallery, Sustainable Darkroom, Bangkok CityCity Gallery and the Stanford Art Gallery. My work has been made possible by Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts Fellowship, Art+Justice Grant, the Anderson Ranch Scholarship, and the Metaspore Fellowship (Stanford Arts + Anicka Yi Studios).
Outside of art, I study computer science, earth systems, and art practice at Stanford University; You can find my work related to the use of AI and data science to mobilize blended finance for climate resilient local infrastructure at airys.tech.
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