Artist's Cooperation
The 3B-project was originally launched on january 6th, 1999 at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, on the occasion of the exhibition 'Alter Ego', which teamed up 13 european artists with 13 thai artists, to be united in collaborative projects and resulting outcome.
Devos and Kunavichayanont agreed to let their project be defined by a number of restrictions, rather than supposed qualities of each own's individual work, by adding resources or technicalities thereof. A list of limitations was presented to curator Mrs Rodboon Somporn as the 3B Manifesto which defined the workspace for eventual activities.
3B had a main office at Silpakorn, which featured as a homebase and headquarters for several actions which took place outside the grounds of Silpakorn, and reached out all over the city, at a certain point even expanding into the northern town of Chiang Mai.
Both artists kept a strict diary of all activities between the initial launch, and the foreseen opening of the 'Alter Ego' exhibition, documenting all works, performances, lectures, installations and events by the use of various media; photography, text, audio, collection of paraphernalia and the webpages now archived here as 'Stage One'.
The final result in the Alter Ego exhibition was an installation, a kind of traditional thai hut, built by Sutee, outside of the main exhibition space, it housed his whole collection of documents of the projects' timespan, carefully arranged on the walls; calendar sheets, photos, postcards, newspaper-clippings, tickets, posters, leaflets and various items, depicting the whole range of activities. DDV's report was presented as an interactive application on a Powermac 7100, also located in the hut. As both artists' work intertwined during the setup, it became clear that the collaboration had been a very close one, because many similar images would show up in both presentations, making each one of them clearly visible in the other's work.
Pictures of the installation, as well as documentation on performances and works presented outside the Silpakorn ground can be seen in the workbrowser of this website. Additional snapshots fill in the picture for those at home, to get an idea of the Bangkok atmosphere, as sniffed by a farang.
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