Intangible Stages: Time-Based Media in Site-Specific Locations
A conversation about presenting the ephemeral and intangible modes of art-making, such as film, moving image or performance, within site-specific or unusual locations. Join ART SG FILM Curator Stefano Rabolli Pansera, independent curator Sam I-shan and curator and art historian Lydia Yee in discussion, with a particular focus on site-specific biennales and groundbreaking new initiatives such as the Khao Yai Art Forest.
Speakers:
Stefano Rabolli Pansera – Director, Bangkok Kunsthalle, Khao Yai Art Forest
Sam I-shan – Independent Curator
Moderated by:
Lydia Yee – Curator and Art Historian
Stefano Rabolli Pansera – Director, Bangkok Kunsthalle, Khao Yai Art Forest
Stefano Rabolli Pansera, founding director of Khao Yai Art Forest and Bangkok Kunsthalle, is an architect and curator. After graduating with Honours at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 2005, he worked with Herzog de Meuron in Basel from 2005 to 2007 and he taught at the AA as Unit Master from 2007 to 2011. In 2013, he founded Beyond Entropy Ltd, a curatorial agency operating at the threshold of art, architecture and geopolitics and developing projects in Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean coastline. He curated several national pavilions at La Biennale di Venezia and, in 2013, he was the recipient of the Golden Lion for best national participation for the Angola Pavilion. In 2015, he designed Mangiabarche open-air gallery and directed the exhibition program for the MACC, a non-for-profit space in the South West of Sardinia. From 2017 until 2022, Stefano worked as director for Hauser & Wirth Gallery in London and opened the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in St. Moritz, while continuing working on several initiatives in Europe and Asia and developing institutional projects with Christoph Büchel and with the Panza Collection. In 2021 he founded of St. Moritz Art Film Festival, of which still he remains artistic director.
Sam I-shan – Independent Curator
Sam I-shan is an independent curator with an interest in time-based media, moving image, photography, and art and politics. She was previously curator at National Gallery Singapore (NGS), Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and Esplanade Visual Arts. Exhibitions include Under One Moon (Catalyst, Hong Kong), Nowhere Here (Singapore International Photography Festival), Sim Chi Yin: One Day We’ll Understand (Rencontres d’Arles, France), Cao Fei and Georgette Chen: At Home in the World (both NGS), and Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia (SAM). At Esplanade, she curated and managed new commissions and site-specific exhibitions, working with a range of regional artists. At SAM, she headed moving image initiatives, specialising in Artist Films, and co-programming the annual Southeast Asian Film Festival. I-shan also programmes for film festivals, specialising in artist films and video, working with the Singapore International Film Festival, Asian Film and Video Art Forum at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, ART SG Film, Videoex Experimental Film and Video Festival Zurich, and Photo Phnom Penh. She lives and works in Singapore and Cambodia.
Lydia Yee – Curator and Art Historian
Lydia Yee is a London-based curator and art historian. She is currently senior curatorial advisor to YDP (Yan Du Projects) and a member of the external faculty for New Curators. Yee has previously held curatorial positions in London and New York, including Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery; Curator, Barbican Art Gallery and Senior Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. A recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship (2024–25) and a member of the Turner Prize jury (2024), Yee was also co-curator of Frieze Talks (2018–19) and British Art Show 8 (2015–17).