AN ARTIST RESIDENCY IN THAILAND

INTRODUCTION

This blog aims to share the process of 'Rewilding the Artist-teacher', reflecting on reconnecting with my artistic practice as an embodied pedagogical enquiry. I hope to reflect on how this immersive period of art-making can transform my Artist-Teacher-Researcher identity and my future becomings.

My practice over the past two years has been increasingly concerned with unmaking—not as an act of destruction, but as a methodology that resists the dominant narratives of capitalism, which equate progress with accumulation, productivity, and overconsumption (Feola, 2019). Post-PhD, I am craving a tactile engagement with materials—a return to land, territories, trace, and animal matter that inspired my previous installation works, but in a new environment that unsettles my assumptions and transforms this experience acknew. 

My work and research are informed by post-humanist thought, particularly the writings of Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (2019), and their concept of ‘becoming animal’. Moreover, Elizabeth Grosz in Becoming Undone (2011) invites us to consider life as a fluid assemblage of organic and inorganic matter, always becoming, in constant flux.

For this artistic residency in 2026, I have the undeniable privilege of being invited to Prem International School, Chiang Mai, by Creative Director Alex Soulsby, for a two-week residency coinciding with my teacher's October break. While the artist awakes, the teacher will rest. 

My artistic enquiry will be guided by the local landscape, the children's enquiries, and the supporting members of staff at Prem International. I will explore unmaking as a generative act, led by the process of tracing the folds of materials and moments, to revisit each step and reimagine what might emerge if I allow myself to come undone; a search for new connections and new ecologies of assembling and relating to the world through this immersive time. 

(Find out more about Artist Residency Thailand and Prem School here: https://artistresidencythailand.com/).