Permeable Parameters — Lara van Meeteren

RESEARCH, PRACTICE & FIELDWORK

• Art Events and Infrastructures in Asia

  Researching macro-infrastructures, political economy, corporate real estate, and public art across Hong Kong and Asia.

  • Bangkok Biennial Pavilion 'coming soon • เร็ว ๆ นี้' ↗ (Research project, interviews and multi-media installation, 2018)
  • Public Art in the Private City: Control, Complicity and Criticality in Hong Kong (Open Philosophy, 2019)
  • What Should Biennials Do? (Zine, 2019)
  • Biennials and Hegemony: Experiences from the Thai Laboratory (OnCurating, 2020)
• Cultural Commoning in Thailand

  Investigating self-organisation, cultural commoning as resistance, and collective art practices across Thailand.

  • [ inappropriate BOOK CLUB ] Common Dissent (Reading group & edited book, 2021)
    └─ [ Full Book in Thai ] ↗ └─ [ Introduction in English ] ↗
  • Art Organisers as Commoners: On the Sustainability and Counter-Hegemonic Potential of the Bangkok Biennial ↗ (Social Inclusion, 2022)
  • Artists as Organisers: Cultural Commoning and Hegemony in Thailand ↗ (Book chapter in The Rise of the Common City: On the Culture of Commoning, ASP, June 2022)
  • Lecture at documenta fifteen: Commoning Curatorial and Artistic Education ↗ (2022)
  • On the Ideological Flexibility of the Cultural Common(s): The Many Lives of Thailand’s Art Lane ↗ (OnCurating, Issue 52, November 2022)
  • [ inappropriate BOOK CLUB ] Labour and Value in the Cultural Field
    └─ Reading and discussion meetings (2023) └─ We don't accept these terms. Labour and value in the cultural field (publication, 2025)
• Text-Based Commoning

  Active research on collaborative writing, publishing as method, and ethnographic fieldwork.

  • On Text-Based Commoning ↗ (Book chapter in Future Book(s): Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) Publishing, Valiz, June 2023)
  • [ inappropriate BOOK CLUB ] ใช้ได้ Chai Dai (lexicon building and collaborative writing project, 2023-)
    └─ Workshop gatherings in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen and Pattani (2023) └─ [ Chai Dai Platform ] ↗ └─ [ Chai Kham Dai — zine collection ] ↗ └─ สู่ปทานุกรมผู้ใช้งาน (Thai translation of Stephen Wright's 'Lexicon Toward Usership)
• Fieldnotes

  Notes from site visits to art organisations in Bangkok, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Lightly sanitized excerpts, added as they accumulate.

  • [ FIELDNOTE 001 ] Bangkok — Site Visit (Aug 2026)
    To be added