Transforming Public Spaces

Meet the artists transforming Victory Monument
12 October 2009
Meet the artists transforming Victory Monument

In a series of video inter­views Maria Stukoff and Kasama Yamtree take us through the chal­lenges posed by the site, describe the audi­ences they’re hop­ing to con­nect with, and explain the ideas behind their work.

Congested, chaotic and ready for a transformation: Victory Monument
28 September 2009
Congested, chaotic and ready for a transformation: Victory Monument

Vic­tory Monu­ment is one of Bangkok’s busiest inter­sec­tions with thou­sands of Skytrain, bus and car com­muters passing through each day, together with hun­dreds of vendors who ply their trade there. It is also known as the ‘zero marker’ for the centre of Thai­l­and, the start­ing point from which all dis­tances are measured.

Transforming Victory Monument
19 September 2009
Transforming Victory Monument

Vic­tory Monu­ment is Bangkok’s zero-marker: a transit hub, mar­ket place, social space and mys­ter­i­ous monu­ment. Apostrophe’S and artist Maria Stukoff are plan­ning a rad­ical ‘cre­at­ive infec­tion’ to engage the site’s users with the envir­on­mental, cul­tural and social impact of the site.

Re-George Town: Making a Creative Heritage City
11 September 2009

This pro­ject exam­ines the idea of her­it­age and con­tem­por­ary urban life and will explore prac­tical solu­tions for the devel­op­ment of George Town as a cre­at­ive her­it­age city.

Transforming Gongju City
11 September 2009

In March 2009, Brit­ish Coun­cil Korea signed a Memor­andum of Under­stand­ing with Gongju city, the aim being to help Gongju with its plans to become a vibrant centre of cul­ture and the arts.

Contact: a work by United Visual Artists
11 September 2009
Contact: a work by United Visual Artists

Rop­pongi Hills, a major shop­ping, enter­tain­ment and busi­ness com­plex, was trans­formed into an open air art space through Con­tact, a respons­ive floor-based install­a­tion allow­ing vis­it­ors to use their kin­etic energy to gen­er­ate audi­ovisual forms that inter­act with the user and com­mu­nic­ate with each other.