{"id":52220,"date":"2022-09-07T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=52220"},"modified":"2022-10-15T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T11:49:45","slug":"7-09-from-6-30pm-ho-rui-an-presenting-tables-factories-in-conversation-with-nut-srisuwan-motto-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=52220","title":{"rendered":"7.09 from 6.30pm: Ho Rui An presenting\u00a0Tables | Factories, in conversation with Nut Srisuwan @ Motto Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Please join us for the presentation of Tables | Factories<\/a> with author and artist Ho Rui An<\/a> in conversation with Nut Srisuwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday\u00a07\u00a0September
from 6.30pm

<\/strong>Motto Berlin
Salitzer Str. 68 (im Hinterhof)
10997 Berlin

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Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working at\u00a0the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Working primarily across the mediums of lecture, essay and film, he probes into the ways by which images are produced, circulate and disappear within contexts of globalism and governance. He has presented projects at the Bangkok Art Biennale; Asian Art Biennial; Gwangju Biennale; Jakarta Biennale; Sharjah Biennial; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Kunsthalle Wien; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; and Para Site, Hong Kong. In 2019, he was awarded the International Film Critics\u2019 (FIPRESCI) Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. In 2018, he was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Nut Srisuwan is an independent researcher and curator based in Bangkok and Leipzig. His research examines the interrelations between subjects in transnational contexts, such as national identities, politics and migratory movements. As a co-founder of the artistic and curatorial collective \u201cCharoen Contemporaries\u201d, he also works together with other practitioners in finding new models for the art ecosystem in Thailand.

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Tables | Factories<\/strong>
Ho Rui An
Published by\u00a0BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY<\/a>

The process of preparing this book began with looking at photographs of large meeting tables around which Chinese and Singaporean public officials gathered during the many Chinese government study missions to Singapore throughout the 1990s. While such images might seem unremarkable today, the appearance of former revolutionaries of the Maoist era as sedentary technocrats marks the historic emergence of a distinct political imaginary in a time when \u201cthe economy\u201d was displacing class struggle as the primary subject of governance in China.

It was at the table that these technocrats, having extricated themselves from the masses, devised the concept of the socialist market economy to frame the economic reforms that were launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. As they insisted on the compatibility of the market economy with the prevailing socialist social contract, the reformers articulated their turn towards the market as a decision informed not by the \u201cinvisible\u201d manner through which the market allocates its resources, but by the assumed transparency of its information flows, which they believed would make visible what the party-state had been previously unable to see.

Yet, to the extent that this process of \u201cseeking truth from facts\u201d, as the reformers put it, is founded upon a set of separations\u2014the party-state from the masses, information from ideology, the economic from the political\u2014what ultimately underwrites the total visibility apparently provided by the table is the concealment of that which must not be allowed to appear as information in order for the logic of the market to obtain: the exploitation of labour.

It is on this basis that the factory can be construed as the table\u2019s forgotten origin and impenetrable interior, and the gate that circumscribes the compound the limit of the market\u2019s capacity for making things visible. Designed to spatially contain industrial labour and hide their exploitation from the public sphere, the factory gate is as close as the technocrat would get, as seen during the factory\u2019s opening ceremony, to the world of labour under a capitalist mode of production. In thus proposing a convergence between tables and factories and examining their respective regimes of (in)visibility across the contexts of Singapore and Reform-era China, this collection of images and texts seeks to understand how the seemingly disparate worlds centred around these two objects in fact call forth each other to produce our deeply unsettled contemporary condition\u2014one where the recognition that accrues to visibility has replaced freedom from exploitation as the most that the people can ever demand after the revolution\u2019s untimely end.

Order the book\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please join us for the presentation of Tables | Factories with author and artist Ho Rui An in conversation with Nut Srisuwan Wednesday\u00a07\u00a0Septemberfrom 6.30pm Motto BerlinSalitzer Str. 68 (im Hinterhof)10997 Berlin \/\/ Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working at\u00a0the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Working primarily across the mediums of lecture, essay and film, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,84,614],"tags":[7068,6296,7667,60,7737,7666],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52226,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52220\/revisions\/52226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}