jiandyin (Jiradej Meemalai and Pornpilai Meemalai) are interdisciplinary duo artists and curators, live and work in Ratchaburi, Thailand. Their work approach through artistic research, field work, genealogically layered with references to multiple sources and evidence, forms and matters upon a wide range of disciplines and mediums, with collaboration and social engagement. jiandyin create space/platform or situation to analyze relationships between man and society in relation to context and history of the place and space, issues regarding the political conflict or effect on marginalized groups which is a paradox of nation-state. In 2011, they found Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture www.baannoorg.org, a not-to-profit artist initiative that runs art and cultural, artist in residency, curatorial, interdisciplinary exchange and off-school programs, located in Nongpo community, Ratchaburi, Thailand. Baan Noorg’ participated in Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai, Thailand, 2023 and documenta fifteen, 2022, Kassel, Germany.
Jiandyin were awarded a fellowship grant from the Asian Cultural Council New York in 2009 and were artists in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, 2010, Civitella Ranieri center, Umbria Italy 2013. Solo exhibitions include Portrait [Archives of Dialogue: Seeing and Being], Gallery Seescape, Chiang Mai, The Ontology of Gold: Magic Mountains, Cartel Artspace, Bangkok, Thailand, 2017, AIR Overlapping, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012, Group exhibitions include: FutureOurs Art2030, New York, 2024, Nomadic exhibition, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand, “In Stranger Lands: Cocoa’s Journeys to Asia”, Tang Contemporary Hong Kong, Nguyen Art Foundation, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2024, Biennales include 2024, 2021 Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia, 2021 Busan Sea Art Festival, Busan, South Korea, 2019 Asian Art Biennial: The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, Thailand Biennale Krabi 2018, Krabi, Thailand.
Links:
https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/lumbung-members-artists/baan-noorg-collaborative-arts-and-culture/
https://trans-seatriennial.gzarts.edu.cn/info/1011/1053.htm
https://artouch.com/tag/jiandyin
http://www.busanbiennale.org/SAFen/index.php?pCode=exhibitionw&pg=2&mode=view&idx=11214
https://www.cobosocial.com/tag/jiandyin/
http://www.topographyofmirrorcities.org/bangkok.html
https://artasiapacific.com/video/remote-viewing-1
https://civitella.org/fellow/pornpilai-jiradej-meemalai-jiandyin/