Residency community

2026 Resident

Kawita Vatanajyankur

Contemporary artist Thailand
Portrait of contemporary artist Kawita Vatanajyankur Portrait: Anantaporn Intravisit / ArtReview Magazine

Practice

A practice entering a shared research environment.

Kawita Vatanajyankur creates physically intensive works that examine labour, the body, technology, and social systems. Her practice has been presented at biennales, museums, and art institutions internationally.

  • Performance
  • Moving image
  • Embodied systems
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Within the residency

Research encounters and developing questions.

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Research orientation

Entering the synthetic biology environment

Alongside Nene Koyama and Tomoki Matsumura, Kawita joined a guided introduction to research at iSynBio and began mapping artistic questions onto the institute's scientific environment.

Contact and residency

Enter the shared world of designed life.

Send an expression of interest, browse the iSynBio labs, or begin a conversation with Cross-Media Lab about an artistic research question.

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Program team

Chenli Liu

Honorary Director

Zhijie Qiu

Honorary Director

Xiao Yi

Executive Director, Bio

Baoyang Chen

Executive Director, Art

Fangxinzi Chen

Creative Manager