HEIDELBERG PROJECT

BANGKOK MARKET

Bangkok’s Maeklong Market has been in existence for decades. It remained relatively undisturbed until the later creation of the Maeklong Railway and, contrary to what you might see in the United States and in other parts of the world, there was no eminent domain law forcing market vendors to move.

The result? Every single day the Maeklong Railway line passes through Maeklong – 8 times a day, 7 days per week. The train literally runs directly through the middle of the market, forcing vendors to pull back their awnings and wares while shoppers find a place to step off of the track that serves as their only walkway.

The second part of the video show the Damnoen Saduak floating market, very lively and somewhat chaotic, small "khlongs" or canals are filled with flat boats piled high with fresh produce, each jockying for position and paddled by ladies ready to stop and bargain at a moment´s notice.


Music:
"Crazy" by Katie Noonan

STEVEN SIEGEL

Steven Siegel is an American artist known for his use of recycled materials often within the natural landscape. Siegel’s minimalist trash forms are richly nuanced with the weight of thousands of experiences massed into bundles. His work builds on the rich tradition of using garbage and found objects to create art. We are reminded of the new human geology of landfills. A type of sedimentary deposition of waste transformed by the artist into temporary pods and monoliths. 

XOOOOX

XOOOOX  works with delicate stenciled works and installations in an arte povera style that consist of weathered and decaying materials. In these works XOOOOX distinctly contrasts the glamour of fashion culture with existentialist themes such as vulnerability and transience. Using transitory media such as exposed building facades, worm-eaten wood, rotting fabric and rusty metal, XOOOOX grounds this apparently glamorous theme in the street, but the artist’s aim is not to deconstruct fashion culture.XOOOOX pays homage to traditional haute couture while levelling criticism at the over-industrialization of fashion as a cultural artifact of our time.

CEMENT ECLIPSES

 

Isaac Cordal is an artist from London that is known for working with miniture cement sculptures within an urban environment. Each figure is hand sculpted, cast in cement, painted, and displayed with extreme precision. The miniture figures interact with the landscape and bring out the beauty of the urban grime. Cordal’s work is often comical with figures swimming in water puddles and having conversations, but it also has a serious side with issues such as the homeless, suicide, and police brutality.

JR

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JR is the name of a photographer and artist whose identity is unconfirmed. He has described himself as a "photograffeur" because he flyposts large black-and-white photographic images in surprising public locations in a manner which is similar to the appropriation of the built environment by the graffiti artist. JR's work often challenges widely held preconceptions and the reductive images propagated by advertising and the media. He exhibits his photographs in the street that he qualifies as the largest art gallery in the world. His work combines art and action and deals with commitment, freedom, identity and limits