CoLabs Chiang Mai
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Contents
- 1 Arai-eek Lab
- 2 Activities & Events
- 2.1 Arrival of first batch of Residencies
- 2.2 KHWANTUM - A Lecture Performance
- 2.3 KHWANTUM - Art-Sci Entanglement
- 2.4 Discussion: Co-building a Mobility Guide for Southeast Asia
- 2.5 Make your own Inhaler Memori Workshop, Bandung (ID)
- 2.6 Sonicnx - Improvised, Sound, Noise Session
- 2.7 Sharing Session: Advanced BubbleLab
- 2.8 Walk tour: Follow the elephants path
- 2.9 Remote Presentation: DIWO Week 2026, Dresden
- 2.10 Sharing Session: Arai-eek residensis
- 3 Programme Calendar (17-30 May)
- 4 Arai-eek people
- 4.1 Arai-eek Residensi
- 4.1.1 Muzeian (Muhammad Zeian) - Pasuran, Indonesia
- 4.1.2 Drc3p0 (Darcy Neal) Portland, USA
- 4.1.3 Luis Sanz - Zurich, Switzerland
- 4.1.4 Wendi Wu - Shanghai, China
- 4.1.5 Anang Novianto - Pasuran, Indonesia
- 4.1.6 Nguyễn + Transitory - Berlin / Chiang Mai
- 4.1.7 Arbor (Derrek Chow) - Taipei / US
- 4.1.8 Luca E. Lum
- 4.1.9 Kiran - Kochi, India
- 4.2 Co-Laboratorians
- 4.3 Hosts & geng
- 4.1 Arai-eek Residensi
- 5 CoLabs Kick-off Feb 2026
- 6 Credits & Acknowledgements
Arai-eek Lab
Overview
Arai-eek Co-Laboratory & Arai-eek Lab Residency is a format of mutual learning and knowledge exchange rooted in a shared fascination with biology - from ecological science to synthetic biology — merged with digital technologies and traditional craft. Linking the Global Hackteria Network and SGMK (Swiss Mechatronic Art Society) with tomorrow.lab and Pa Rang Art Company in Thailand, CoLabs emphasises Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) participation and experimentation across diverse perspectives.
For the Chiang Mai chapter, we introduce Lannafuturism — a speculative framework that asks: What happens when centuries-old Lanna craft knowledge meets open-source technology, biological materials, and experimental art practice?
“Arai-eek” means “what else?” in Thai — a simple question that opens infinite possibilities. Both programs are built on that question.
What else can art become when it grows like an organism? What else can we create with living materials, waste, microbes, and time? What else is possible when technology is not only digital, but ecological, handmade, and shared?
Arai-eek Lab is a space for exploring bioart, experimental design, and future living practices. We invite artists, musicians, makers, and curious minds to step into a temporary laboratory where nature and technology are not separate — but intertwined.
“Arai-eek?” — What else can we do? What else can we become?
Schedule
Phase 1: Research Residencies (4-6 weeks)
21 April — 30 May 2026
A focused period for invited artists, researchers, and makers to develop new work in response to the Lannafuturism theme. Residents are embedded at Pa Rang Cafe & Art Stay in Chiang Mai with access to fabrication tools, local craft communities, and academic partners.
Find more practical information and schedule on this .pdf for the residency
Phase 2: Co-Laboratory (15 days & nights)
17 — 30 May 2026
An intensive period of collective experimentation, public workshops, and knowledge exchange. Additional CoLabs participants join the residents for hands-on collaborative work culminating in a public showcase day.
Arai-eek Co-Laboratory is a space for exploring bioart, experimental design, and future living practices. We invite artists, musicians, makers, and curious minds to step into a temporary laboratory where nature and technology are not separate — but intertwined. The Co-Laboratory is about asking again and again. While experimenting with others, focusing more on process, failure, and discovery. Here, we work with organic matter, bio-materials, DIY tools, sound, and collective imagination.
We grow, ferment, decompose, hack, observe, and listen. From small experiments to shared meals, from silent observation to chaotic collaboration — this is a living lab where ideas evolve through people, place, and time.
Interested to join? please get into contact with us by email
Themes
Craft — 730 Years of Living Knowledge
Chiang Mai has been a city of makers since the Lanna Kingdom (1296). These traditions are not museum pieces — they are alive. Teen jok weavers, Wualai silversmiths, bamboo weavers, Kalong ceramicists, saa paper makers, Ban Tawai woodcarvers — communities whose techniques predate industrial manufacture by centuries, still practicing daily. UNESCO recognised this in 2017, naming Chiang Mai a Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art. Chiang Mai carries a deep history of craft — from weaving and ceramics to woodwork and natural dye. These practices are not only skills, but living knowledge shaped by generations, materials, and place.
Science & Technology — The University City
Chiang Mai is Thailand's second-largest academic hub, home to multiple universities with over 20 faculties and research centres spanning physics, biology, biomedical engineering, nanoscience, agriculture, and biotechnology. Through our partnership with the local universities, we are connected to both the local creative community and the university's broader academic network.
Art & Community — The Creative Ecosystem
Chiang Mai has one of Southeast Asia's longest histories of independent, community-driven art practice — over thirty years of artist-run spaces, maker collectives, design festivals, and residency programmes.
Food & Farm
Chiang Mai sits at the intersection of tradition and transition. Surrounded by mountains and farmland, the region has long been rooted in local agriculture, seasonal cycles, and community-based food culture. At the same time, it is rapidly changing — shaped by tourism, climate pressure, air pollution, and shifting economies.
Food here is not just consumption. It is land, labor, ecology, and memory.
By focusing on food and farm, we return to something essential — while also asking new questions:
- How can we grow differently?
- How can waste become material?
- How can art and technology reshape our relationship to the land?
Venue & Facilities
Chiang Mai sits at a unique intersection. It is home to one of Southeast Asia's richest living craft traditions — textiles, ceramics, metalwork, bamboo, woodcarving, lacquerware — practiced by communities whose techniques predate industrial manufacture by centuries. It is also a growing hub for digital nomads, maker spaces, and creative technology. Lannafuturism proposes that the future of this region is not found in choosing between tradition and technology, but in the creative collision of both.
More info about venue & facilities in this .pdf
Pa Rang Cafe and Art Stay
Pa Rang Cafe & Art Stay is a small creative space nestled in nature on the outskirts of Chiang Mai — a place where art, community, and everyday life gently come together. Surrounded by gardens and open air, Pa Rang is both a café and a living space for artists, travelers, and curious minds. It hosts workshops, small gatherings, music, and collaborative projects that grow organically from the people who pass through.
More than a venue, Pa Rang is a shared environment — where ideas are tested, meals are shared, and connections are formed across disciplines and cultures.
Map:37/1 Sinharat road Lane2 Chiang mai old town
Stikka factory
https://parangstikka.zrok.yair.cc/
or our new one:
https://arai-eek.github.io/experiments/parang-stikka.html
Background
The Arai-eek Lab is part of the "Technobiological Futures" programme (February 2026 — August 2027) is a multi-phase initiative spanning Thailand, Switzerland, Indonesia, and India. Co-funded by “Synergies”, by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the Co-Laboratories catalyse South-South collaborations that bypass traditional North-mediated routes, building sustainable networks for art-science-technology exchange across the Global South.
See our previous activites from 2023/24, Chiang Mai Cheese Fest and เหลู้าบ - Laab Lu Lao CoLaboratory
LLL CoLaboratory (เหลู้าบ แลบ) คืองานที่จะชวนทุกคนมาทดลองร่วมกันในธีม ศิลปะ และวิทยาศาสตร์ ทั้งการเล่นกับนาโนเทคโนโลยีในชีวิตประจำวัน การตัดต่อพันธุกรรมด้วยอุปกรณ์บ้าน และการหมักดองจากจุลชีพ เป้าหมายของเราคือการรวมกลุ่มผู้คนที่สนใจในการทำงานแบบสหสาขา และการทำโปรเจคที่สำรวจอนาคตของเรา กิจกรรมนี้จะมีขึ้น 5 วัน ที่เราจะได้มาใช้ห้องทดลองเปิดด้วยกัน เราจะมีอุปกรณ์ และองค์ความรู้จาก opensource เพื่อให้ทุกคนได้มาทำงานร่วมกัน เราจะมีทั้งกิจกรรมที่เราจัดขึ้นทั้ง เวิร์คชอปหรือการฉายภาพยนต์ และมีส่วนที่เปิดให้ผู้ร่วมได้ร่วมตัดสินใจร่วมกัน
LLL CoLaboratory (เหลู้าบ แลบ) is a "do-it-with-others" Art & Science open laboratory. Our goal is to gather the enthusiastic people and work on various multidisciplinary and speculative projects. We organize a 5-days "OPEN LAB" session for everyone to access. We are providing a space for share equipment, material, consulting, workshop and opensource for learning and working on projects. There will be workshops from the organizer. However, there also a flexible session for participant to decide. The session has no limit to creativity - let's see how the opensource community bring us to the next level of imagination.
Activities & Events
Arrival of first batch of Residencies
KHWANTUM - A Lecture Performance
"What if your body already understands the quantum?"
KHWANTUM emerges from the meeting of Khwan — a Thai animistic sensibility of beings — and the quantum field: invisible, shifting, and alive. This interactive lecture-performance brings together the evolving research of the project across:
- Beings of Entanglement (4 artists),
- a collaborative art lab (10 artists),
- and ongoing explorations between Ong Pholchai, Wendi Wu, and Wave Pongruengkiat.
Rather than explaining quantum physics, we translate it into experience — through movement, sound, image, and spatial interaction. Concepts are not presented, but activated.
They appear through the body, unfold in space, and shift through relation. No science background needed. Just curiosity — and a willingness to sense, move, and engage.
You are invited to enter a shared field, where perception becomes interaction, and interaction becomes reality.
📅 When: 24th April Friday 8PM @rongsadang 📍 Location: @rongsadang
KHWANTUM - Art-Sci Entanglement
After the experience of KHWANTUM: A lecture Performance, we are opening up the space for a deeper conversation.
How do we bridge the gap between animistic sensibilities and quantum fields? How does a lab-based scientific concept transform into a physical movement?
Join us for Art-Sci Entanglement, a follow-up session dedicated to reflecting on the journey behind the work. We will be diving into the “how” of our collaboration. We will discussing the friction, the harmony, and the creative process of working at the intersection of art and science.
Speakers: Ong Pholchai, Wendi Wu, and Wave Pongruengkiat
📅 When: Monday, 27 April 2026 🕖 Time: 19:00 (7:00 PM) 📍 Location: Pa Rang Cafe and Art Stay
Whether you joined the performance or are simply curious about how art and science can work together, you are welcome to join the circle.
Discussion: Co-building a Mobility Guide for Southeast Asia
Friday, 1st May 2026, 5 PM
Is cultural mobility only for those who can afford to move?
Join Nguyễn Tú Hằng (@stillzel) for an intimate discussion + working session that looks beyond the usual "how-to" and into the realities of moving (or staying) within Southeast Asia. Moderated by @nguyen.transitory and sou initiative
See also the A guide list to artist-in-residence (AiR) in Vietnam
Together, we’ll unpack:
- moving without funding or infrastructure
- the hidden networks that actually make things happen
- why mobility isn’t just for artists
- what it means to work from – and within – the "South"
- how to prepare before resources even exist
This is not just a talk – it’s a collective mapping session.
Whether you move, host, support, or stay – come shape a more resilient way of navigating borders in our region.
Nguyễn Tú Hằng is currently the recipient of the Japan Foundation Asia Cultural Exchange Fellowship (Visual Arts). From December 2025 to May 2026, Nguyễn Tú Hằng & Trần Thảo Miên (founders of AiRViNe) is traveling across Japan and Southeast Asia (the Philippines, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia) to investigate residency programs and international exchange ecosystems while exploring possibilities for future collaboration.
This event is supported by Sou Initiative, Parang Cafe & Art Stay, tomorrow.lab, International Hackteria Society, and Arai Eek, within the scheme of Co-Laboratories: Technobiological Futures, funded by Pro Helveltia.
Make your own Inhaler Memori Workshop, Bandung (ID)
When: 29 April 2026 | 10.00 – 12.00
On April 29, 2026, Biohaha (Angela Sunaryo and Helmi Hardian) organised “Make Your Own Inhaler Memori - Braga Edition” at Cafe Halaman, Bandung, Indonesia. The workshop was developed as an extension and derivative practice of the ongoing Sensewalking Flux project, an interdisciplinary artistic research initiated by Biohaha that explores memory, urban atmospheres, deep listening, and sensory engagement through walking, sound, and embodied perception. (https://bio-haha.github.io/sensewalking/)
✧ Braga Edition ✧
"A portable scent object functioning simultaneously as a personal archive, sensory artwork, and intimate mnemonic device."
“Racik aroma yang adalah dirimu… simpan momen, hidupkan kembali lewat ingatan (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧"
Mari melambat sejenak dan menyelami kota melalui indera penciuman. Dalam workshop ini, kamu akan mengaktifkan memori, menerjemahkannya menjadi aroma, dan meracik inhaler personal~ satu-satunya di dunia, milikmu sendiri. Sebuah pengalaman intim untuk mendengar ulang ruang, mengingat ulang kota, dan merancang jejak aromatik dari pengalamanmu.
✨ Workshop ini diselenggarakan dalam rangka program EKRAF SERUIN (Akselerasi Seni Rupa Indonesia) 2026
🎁 What’s Included:
- Welcome Drink | Coffee / Tea & Snack
- Sesi aktivasi memori & eksplorasi indera
- Your Own Inhaler Memori | Karya aroma personalmu
🕰️Workshop: 120 menit 🗓 29 April 2026 | 10.00 – 12.00 📍Cafe Halaman, Jl. Tamansari No.92, Bandung
Sonicnx - Improvised, Sound, Noise Session
When: 03 ,May, 2026 Sunday
9 PM "In Between" Sound Installation by Paing Soe
"As a Myanmar artist currently living in Thailand, my work reflects experiences of movement, adaptation, and coexistence across cultures. This project connects personal and collective realities through sound, asking:
- How do we live together in difference?
- Can noise become a form of understanding?"
9:40 PM — Sonica Exchange Jam with Arai-Eek Lab (Artist in Residence)
Who:
- Anang Novianto
- Amprrrong
- Arbor
- Dusjagr
- drc3p0
- and more ...
Bring your own gear and connect with fellow noise artists.
This first Arai-Eek Lab residency, our artists also musicians , they will gather and share their sound art practice in this time.
Sharing Session: Advanced BubbleLab
When: 09 May, 2026 in Arai-eek Studio @ Pa Rang
Advanced BubbleLab took place on 09 May 2026 at Arai-eek Studio @ Pa Rang with Miss Bubblebliss, exploring handbubbles, bubble sculpture, light, foam, and projection through an open and playful collective exchange. It was inspiring and I am grateful for the curious minds, experimentation, and willingness of participants to get their hands soapy while engaging directly with materials, movement, and collaborative making. The session concluded with the exploration of a shared idea to build a foam painting robot, reflecting the spirit of the Arai-eek Lab Residency where speculative thinking, open experimentation, craft, and technology come together through collective curiosity and the question “Arai eek?” what else is possible?
Walk tour: Follow the elephants path
Remote Presentation: DIWO Week 2026, Dresden
Die DIWO Werkwoche 2026 ist das einzigartige Workshop-Festival des Metaknoten e.V. unter dem Motto „Do It With Others“. An fünf Tagen bietet sie eine bunte Mischung aus Workshops, Vorträgen, Diskussionsrunden und multimedialen Abendveranstaltungen. Am sechsten Tag gipfelt das Programm in einer öffentlichen Vernissage mit Konzerten und Performances, bei der die entstandenen Arbeiten präsentiert werden. Das multidisziplinäre Format wird jährlich neu kuratiert und lädt internationale, genreübergreifend arbeitende Künstler*innen, Medienmacher*innen und DIY-Enthusiast*innen ein. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf der aktiven Vernetzung mit dem lokalen Publikum, das nicht nur Zuschauer*in, sondern Mitgestalter*in wird.
In Zeiten der Hyper-Digitalisierung gerät das körperliche und händische Arbeiten immer weiter in den Hintergrund. Stattdessen dominiert der Algorithmus und die Kreativität wird dem Computer überlassen. Die DIWO Werkwoche 2026 setzt dieser „Entmenschlichung“ der kreativen Arbeit ein neues Konzept entgegen: Die Künstlerische Intelligenz als Krone des Schaffens und Wirkens, eine kollektive, handwerkliche Praxis anstatt einer Software. Um diese KI im Rahmen der Werkwoche zu entwickeln, orientieren wir uns am klassischen Kunsthandwerk und verbinden die Verarbeitung von Materialien mit digitaler Medienkunst. Nicht um nostalgisch zu sein sondern um zu zeigen wie händisches Können im digitalen Zeitalter neu erlebbar wird.
Sharing Session: Arai-eek residensis
Programme Calendar (17-30 May)
The day-by-day schedule for Phase 2 of the Arai-eek Co-Laboratory (17–30 May 2026). Workshops marked with 📋 have full details on the dedicated page: Arai-eek Programme Calendar. Facilitator initials in parentheses (W = Wave, D = Darcy, A = Arbor, V = VIVI, P+W = Phuwa & Wave, AL = Adeline × Luca, ALG = Arbor + Luis + Giang, 4S = 4 seas, Mu = Muzeian, An = Anang).
See Arai-eek Programme Calendar for workshop descriptions, instructors, locations, and prices.
This schedule was drafted with the assistance of an AI agent (Bri-yarni Oracle, powered by Claude Opus 4.7) using the Arai-eek WikiBot method. Please review and verify all information.
Arai-eek people
Arai-eek Residensi
Muzeian (Muhammad Zeian) - Pasuran, Indonesia
Muhammad Zeian is a nomadic media artist, workshopologist, and noise performer from Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia. His artistic practice revolves around dismantling and reassembling various objects to create new forms and contexts.
Growing up in a DIY/DIWO (do-it-yourself/do-it-with-others) environment made him familiar with workshop activities. He often leads various DIY electronics workshops, such as "Plorok" at Asana Bina Seni - Biennale Jogja - Indonesia, "Pinarak Workshop Series" at Wonderfruit - Thailand, and "Cicadra Insect Synthesizer" at Rokko Meets Art - Japan.
Currently, he is actively involved in several collectives in East Java. He is a member and co-founder of Bajra Warehouse in Pasuruan, a member of Waft Lab in Surabaya, and an organizer for Unen Unen Ambyar in East Java.
Drc3p0 (Darcy Neal) Portland, USA
Darcy Neal is a new media artist, cyborg and educator, focusing on electronics workshops at makerspaces and universities worldwide. With an affinity for interactive installations and experimental circuitry, they explore new mediums through experimental additive fabrication methods and PCB design, and share knowledge through their creations at maker events worldwide.
Luis Sanz - Zurich, Switzerland
Luis Sanz is a Peruvian-born, Zurich-based multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and curator operating at the volatile intersection of computer music, experimental sonics, and algorithmic autonomous behaviours. His practice investigates the sensory boundaries of digital media, bridging clinical precision with raw, confrontational electronic expression.
Central to his current research is The Sensorimotor Loop of Strange (with Shih Wei Chieh [TW]), exploring neural audio synthesis and computable perception. His spatial work includes The Postscriptum Observatory, an 8-channel environment developed in collaboration with the Continent Collective [DE] for the Collegium Helveticum [CH].
A key facilitator in the Swiss scene, Sanz is a co-curator for Unsorted Space (Zurich). He holds a Master of Arts from the Bern University of the Arts (HKB) and has presented work at Berlin Atonal [DE], CTM Festival [DE], Localhost Festival [CH], Sonorities [UK], A Bunch of Noise [CN], and Proyecto AMIL [PE], with extensive touring across Asia supported by Pro Helvetia.
Wendi Wu - Shanghai, China
I am Wendi from CHINA. I am a multidisciplinary artist focusing on the generation of interactive spatial fields and site-responsive practice. My primary media are installation and live art, but also now extends into video and sound. I will bring a chinese tea to share with everyone!
Wendi Wu is a multidisciplinary artist working with interactive spatial fields and site-responsive practice. Her primary media are installation and live art, extending into video and sound.
Her practice begins from impulse—a drive toward vitality—and unfolds through long-term research into how existence is shaped. Rather than producing fixed narratives, she constructs conditions where forms, meanings, and relationships emerge through interactions between space, materials, and actions.
Her work develops through three directions: Swaying Roots (fluid identity and belonging), The Brewing Force (accumulation, pressure, transformation), and Multiple Fields (relational existence across scales). Across these, space is treated as an active collaborator, with installations functioning as evolving systems activated through embodied and sensory engagement, material processes, and audience participation.
Anang Novianto - Pasuran, Indonesia
I'm Anang from Indonesia. I'm a farmer. I also manage alternative spaces on the slopes of Mount Bromo @petongarthouse , like Bora,,,,, I experiment a lot with farming activities, which are the background of my artwork. I bring many spice drinks that can be enjoyed together 🧉🧉🧉
- https://www.petongarthouse.or.id/
- https://www.youtube.com/@brutalfarm
- https://www.instagram.com/anangnovianto__
Nguyễn + Transitory - Berlin / Chiang Mai
Nguyễn + Transitory reconfigure spaces into musical architectures that merge the spectral resonances of traditional folk and contemporary forms. Their practice explores the transformative potential of sound, not simply as an aesthetic medium, but as a dramaturgical force deeply entwined with cognitive memory, lost histories, and collective experiences within contemporaneity. Rather than dissolving distinctions between folk traditions and contemporary practices, Nguyễn + Transitory create an artistic language born from the friction and productive tension between these disparate forms. Through this dialogue, they allow each tradition to retain its integrity while simultaneously giving rise to something entirely new – an evolving expression that navigates between the past and present without privileging or diminishing either.
Arbor (Derrek Chow) - Taipei / US
Arbor is a media artist and Human-Computer Interaction researcher creating experimental and experiential interfaces and prototypes with an interest in found physical and digital materials. He develops makeshift systems to transform spaces through sound and light. His works blur the boundaries between performance, installation, and artifact across diverse environments and contexts, and often yield new tools that serve as both means and forms of expression.
Luca E. Lum
My work explores the historical entanglement of the animal and the machine, becoming mirrors, proxies, and instruments that parse crisis and change, anticipation and catastrophe. I also narrativise and parse the aesthetics and horror of what I term as "ghostless" or "post-hauntological time" – a condition where the ghost is alienated from its labours. I look at misrecognition as an organising principle in technocapitalism.
I write on death, illness, abandonment, disembodiment, sex and the erotic, ecological grief, and species memory. I have been published by the Asian Film Archive, Nang Magazine, Cthulhu Books, and National Gallery Singapore's online platform.
Kiran - Kochi, India
I’m a technologist at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC.in), where I work at the intersection of technology, policy, and law to protect digital rights and promote software freedom in India. Within the Debian project, I contribute as a non-uploading Debian Developer actively supporting and engaging with the Debian community, particularly across India . I’m also a member of the Debian Data Protection Team, where I work on addressing privacy and data protection concerns within the Debian project. I stay pretty active in the community as an organizer for events like Hack4Play and a volunteer for various FOSS groups across the country.
Co-Laboratorians
Stephanie Krawinkler - Chiang Mai, Thailand / Austria
“Miss Bubblebliss”, Bubbleologist & Cultural and social anthropologist. Miss Bubblebliss is a performance and visual artist who explores and works with the beauty of soap and spheres and brings the bliss powers of soap bubbles into the world. The recent ten years she has been researching, performing, taking photos and filming (with) soap bubble creatures. In addition to the technical aspect, she loves telling stories with soap and bubbles and is into bubbleosophy. Member of the AOIBA (Association of International Bubble Artistes) Travels the world with bubbles. IG: miss.bubblebliss.
Nitipat "Ong" Pholchai — Quantum Somaticist & Movement Artist
Based in Chiang Mai, he guides people to discover what flesh knows when the mind becomes silent, and builds trust to relate authentically with one another through movement and dialogue. From university studios to mountain retreats and festival grounds, he works with spiritual seekers, youth leaders, and curious minds who refuse to see art, science, leadership, and healing as separate worlds.
In Beings of Entanglement, he tunes with audiences to offer a sense of fragile reassurance — that we belong, even in the face of life's complexity and the world's quantum uncertainty. In Blind Rituals, participants discover there is more to seeing than the eyes — when you listen whole-bodily to your visually-impaired dance partner, the heart opens and guides like the moon in a dark night.
He founded the Conscious Movement Collective Bangkok because wellness must come from the ground — culturally situated, ecologically rooted, accessible to diverse urban bodies. It is a home where Thailand-based somatic practitioners gather — dancing in rigid urban spaces, liberating bodies, and calling Khwan back to the community.
Reminding us that quantum potentiality is already there — in our own hearts — as long as we stay curious and hopeful.
- https://www.instagram.com/spineparty
- https://blinddancerituals.wixsite.com/blindrituals
- https://suiragno.wixsite.com/spineparty/project-c-2019
- Protosynthesis of recent art-science discussions
Nalika
Nalika graduated from Thammasat Design School with a focus on timber structures and an interest in how architecture connects with people in Chiang Mai.
Arnont Nongyao - Lamphun, Thailand
Maybe cannot make it... busy with another work in Hanoi. :-(
Arnont Nongyao lives in Lamphun (TH) - Ho Chi Minh city (VN) and He is an artist interested and fell in love with the vibration of things. He likes listening to everything that inspires him to do experimental sound art. The most important teacher “the master Khvay Loeung "inspired him to listen and “destroy yourself from being yourself” .-.. .. ... - . -. -.-- --- ..- .-. ... . .-.. ..-.
Arnont is working with various and different media includes sound, video, installation, site specific, public art etc. Arnont’s work is engage with his interest in vibration; he works on diverse art experimental projects, vibration-related.
Arnont has been interested and research into sound with concentration on vibration, so most of his works are differently experimental and relative to vibration in order to search for the value of vibration derived from connected things, such as human beings, objects and society. His works are involved in a specific space and audience’s participation. They are also connected with the mode of listening/hearing in a social situation, and with how people interact with and participate in sound. Moreover, also he is Co-Director of Aesthetics of Error ( Chiang Mai Collective) with Thatchatham Silsupan and Pathompong Manakitsomboon that is a group of sound artists & musician working on sound art & experimental music in Chiangmai.
Adeline Seah
Still working on writing the bio...
will be updating soon...
Hosts & geng
Wave Pongruengkiat
Weeratouch (Wave) Pongruengkiat, a Thai artist and engineer, seamlessly blends technical expertise with artistic flair, showcasing his interactive and generative works since 2019. Collaborating with local artists, Wave delves into the intersection of art and technology. Passionate about posthumanism, Wave explores its connection with animism—a venerable belief system influencing contemporary thought. Viewing animism as a lens to connect with non-human entities, including nature and artificial intelligences, he advocates for novel perspectives on our relationship with the world. It is this profound connection to animism that motivates Wave to work closely with culture, seeking to bridge traditional wisdom with cutting-edge advancements in his artistic endeavors. Beyond his artistic pursuits, Wave actively engages with communities and envisions a frugal futurism, emphasizing sustainable and accessible approaches to shape our evolving world.
Bora Hong
Bora Hong (Seoul Korea) is a multi-disciplinary designer and curator. She lives and works and travels widely throughout many countries. Since 2021 She moved to Chaing Mai, Thailand. She is running a bar called Thapae East-creative venue for art and music and Pa Rang cafe and art stay as artist's playground and residency.Her main focus is initiating and maintaining team-working projects in Design and Art, Creative Education and Curation. Bora’s design practice focuses on researching and implementing how design can be a tool to describe various social issues. During the MA course she experimented with many different research methods and developed this research into design projects that spanned multiple disciplines including Product Design, Craft, and Art, as well as Multi Media outcomes.
Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr (Switzerland)
Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr is a nomadic researcher and workshopologist. He is part of the Center for Alternative Coconut Research, co-founder of SGMK, Bitwäscherei Hackerspace Collective and the Hackteria network. Before travelling the world for making DIY / DIWO laboratories for creative biological experimentation with living media, Marc entered the world of DIY electronics, designing printed circuit boards for synthesizers and organizing workshops and festivals mostly in Zürich, Taipei and Yogyakarta. He was the co-organizer of the different editions of HackteriaLab 2010 - 2020 Zürich, Romainmotier, Bangalore, Yogyakarta and Klöntal, Okinawa and collaborated on the organisation of the BioFabbing Convergence, 2017, in Geneva and the Gathering for Open Science Hardware, GOSH! 2016, Geneva & 2018, in Shenzhen. He also loves coconuts.
- http://hackteria.org/wiki/dusjagr
- https://mechatronicart.ch/
- https://bitwaescherei.ch/
- https://www.youtube.com/dusjagr
"Boss" Jirapat Thaweechuen
Born in Rasisalai, Thailand, Jirapat Thaweechuen began his film career in 2012 by co-founding Cafe Film. He received three awards from anti-drug campaigns and two prizes at the 19th Thai Short Film and Video Festival (2015). His work was selected for the Filmvirus Wildtype program in 2013 and the Wildtype Middle Class program in 2016.
He studied Multidisciplinary Art at Chiang Mai University (2015 - 22). During this time, he was active in the Democracy Restoration Group and attended the Madan Bhandari School of Asia in Nepal (2018). He later co-founded Crew Bar Multitude and the Multitude Study Group, focusing on political activism and far-left theory.
Jirapat transitioned into bio-art and biohacking, participating in workshops at Freak Lab and the Singapore Art Museum. In 2023, he joined tomorrow.Lab for the Midnight Rice Festival and co-organized the LaabLuLao collaboration in 2024. He was selected as a Next Generation Leader for the 2025 Spirit of Asilomar conference in California. Recently, he served as a researcher at Chiang Mai University's Center for Ethnic Studies and Development and co-organized the Museum of Tomorrow at Syntopia 2025.
CoLabs Kick-off Feb 2026
Technobiological Futures Kick-off Guests
Adam Zaretzky - BEAK research trip and Geng Geng
Zaretsky is a Wet-Lab Art Practitioner mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Body Performance and Gastronomy. Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs based on topics such as: foreign species invasion (pure/impure), radical food science (edible/inedible), jazz bioinformatics (code/flesh), tissue culture (undead/semi-alive), transgenic design issues (traits/desires), interactive ethology (person/machine/non-human) and physiology (performance/stress). A former researcher at the MIT department of biology, for the past 25 years Zaretsky has been teaching an experimental bioart class called VivoArts at: San Francisco State University (SFSU), SymbioticA (UWA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), University of Leiden’s The Arts and Genomic Centre (TAGC) and with the Waag Society. He has also taught DIY-IGM (Do-It-Yourself Inherited Genetic Modification of the Human Genome) at New York University (NYU) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He also runs a public life arts school: VASTAL (The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd.) His art practice focuses on an array of legal, ethical, social and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods with a focus on transgenic humans.
- http://www.emutagen.com/
- https://www.hackteria.org/projects/artist-in-residence-adam-zaretsky/
- https://thgap.hackteria.org
Nupur Maneesh Doshi - BEAK critic-in-residence
During the CoLabs Kickoff at Pa Rang cafe & Art stay in Chiang Mai Thailand, Nupur Maneesh Doshi was hosted as BEAK critic-in-residence from within the BEAK Curatorial Field Notes Assessment Division, working on a creative writing project based on Science Fictionesque poetic reflections on Bioart, Bioethics meets Travelogue and Speculative literary reflections. During her tenure, Nupur also was further incorporated into the Kickoff of Co-Laboratories, hired to pen a Technobiological Futures review article, with her curatorial and critical commentary to be published in English and French in the near future through Makery.info Nupur was also privy to some Biology Laboratory visits in at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, hosted by the Puey Ounjai Lab at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Center of Excellence for Vectors and Vector-Borne Diseases.
Nupur Doshi is a curator and researcher based in Mumbai, India. Her work explores para-art trajectories, transgressing mediums and traditional materiality. She examines provocations from critical philosophy and transdisciplinary studies across counter-histories and speculative futures. She is the Fall '26 Draper Scholar at the Experimental Humanities (XE) Department at NYU. She has also been awarded the Global South Scholarship for the Art & Curatorial Practice Certificate Program at The New Centre for Research & Practice.
https://bioartethics.xyz/beak-news/f/nupur-maneesh-doshi---beak-critic-in-residence-colabs-thailand
Shih Wei Chieh 施惟捷 - Camp and Co-Laboratory reflectionist
施惟捷 Shih Wei Chieh works with wearable art, e-textile, and laser audiovisual. He is also a self-taught material science researcher. His "Laser Dye Project" innovates an optical textile printing method by programmable laser projector and New Cyanotype solution, which inspire him to explore the trans-disciplinary collaboration between new medias and traditional craft techniques. He’s the founder of “Tribe Against Machine”, a project exploring how culture preservation works with modern technologies. His current research develops a DIY dye sensitized solar glass made with natural dye in a large size format, which is used for both energy and as a smart interface for sonic art.
Bioart Wet-Workshop: Hybrid DNA Isolation
We kicked off the Chiang Mai Co-Labs with a proper mess. Adam Zaretsky rolled in to lead a "Hybrid DNA Isolation" workshop. The goal wasn't just to follow a protocol, but to get our hands wet and actually touch the "stuff of life" in a non-sterile, DIY setting. Participants showed up with all sorts of "beings" and samples—bits of plants, spit, and whatever else had DNA in it.
Bioart Wet-Workshop: Hybrid DNA Isolation at Chang Moi
[1] Street BioArt workshop, follow-up from Adam's earlier session.
Chiang Mai Anarchist Zine Fair: Jamming
Chiang Mai Anarchist Zine Fair February 20 & 21, 2026 2:00 - 8:00 PM Red Bookcase Library (Kanalab 2563) Chiang Mai, Thailand
Biofuture Creative Meetup
Credits & Acknowledgements
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