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27/11/2008

More to Love

Chiang Mai University Art Center, Chiang Mai

2008 - Thailand

This ArtAids project brings together twenty visual artists from Thailand and Europe, a curator, people living with HIV and those involved in the fight against Aids. The project More to Love: The Art of Living Together, which takes the Thai expression ‘Putting their heart into your heart’ as its central inspiration, aims to raise awareness of HIV and Aids in Thailand and seeks to change prevailing attitudes. The works created for this project draw attention to the exclusion and stigmatisation experienced by those suffering from HIV and Aids.

A programme of exhibitions and other public events – some of them aimed specially at children – is presented in Bangkok in the summer of 2008. In November 2008, a book on the project will be published.

Curator of More to Love is Chattiya Nitpolprasert.

THE ARTISTS

Otto Berchem
Top Changtrakul
Amrit Chusuwan
Patiroop Chychookiat
Tintin Cooper
Leo Copers
Toeingam Guptabutra
Sutee Kunavichayanont
Krit Ngamsom
Nuts Society & Practical Studio
Nipan Oranniwesna
Kamol Phaosavasdi
Pratchaya Phinthong
Arin Rungjang
Prateep Suthathongthai
Noree Thammarak
Gerald Van Der Kaap
Erich Weiss
Pornprasert Yamazaki

ArtAids fights AIDS, with the substantive and monetary power of art as its most important weapons. ArtAids invites leading artists to produce work that is inspired by AIDS and related problems. These works of art are used not only to raise the public’s consciousness and to encourage their involvement, but also to generate funds for supporting projects throughout the world that are aimed at preventing and fighting AIDS.

ArtAids was set up by the Dutch writer and art collector Han Nefkens. When Nefkens learned that he was infected with HIV in 1987, this brought about a radical change in his life. He came to realize that he was living in injury time; each moment is important to him. Han Nefkens sees the intensity of that experience reflected in the world of art. For this reason he has decided to use art to increase involvement in the AIDS problem so that real contributions can be made to creating a better existence for people living with HIV.

Website ArtAids
http://www.artaids.com Contact info@artaids.com

Han Nefkens’ art collection
http://www.hfcollection.org

Programme

28 November 2008
MORE TO LOVE
Opening Reception at Chiang Mai University Art Center
The catalogue of all works will be presented at the reception.

Talk & Video Screening
at The Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University

20 November 2008
Talk by Pornprasert Yamazaki (TH),
Noree Thammarak (TH), and Otto Berchem (USA/NL)

27 November 2008
Talk by Leo Copers (B) and Erich Weiss (B)

4 December 2008
Talk by Toeingam Guptabutra (TH)

11 December 2008
Video Screening from H+F Collection

Chiang Mai University Art Center
239 Huay Kaew Road, Suthep
Muang, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand

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