Nine artists drew inspiration from Kampong Thom during a five-day solarpunk residency, blending ancestral aesthetics, indigenous practices and green technologies to create original works that will be showcased in a Clean Energy Week exhibition
Kampong Thom proved the inspiration for nine artists who let their creativity unleash during a five-day residency exploring the themes of solarpunk while learning ancestral aesthetics and indigenous practices to integrate with green technologies and sustainable strategies.
From September 25 to 30, the group of creatives - a mix of males and females aged from their early 20s to 40s from various nationalities - took part in a variety of field trips, workshop sessions and creative exercises, as well as discussions and sharing sessions to help shape their creative works.
Selected artists from Cambodia, the region and the wider world produced original artworks during the residency at Sambor village in Kampong Thom. During the trip, they visited ancient Sambor Prei Kuk temples, a Kui indigenous village, and sacred forests for inspiration.
The fruits of their labour will feature in an exhibition at F3 - Friends Futures Factory, from noon to 4pm on October 4, which forms part of Clean Energy Week’s activities. It will be paired with the screening of short films by Department of Media and Communications students.
“Their work will be complemented by various pieces submitted by artists from all over Southeast Asia in an open call related to the project,” said organiser, Miguel Jeronimo, adding that the call attracted 13 artists, with a total of 23 artists’ work on display.
“This exhibition of original art by the resident artists and pieces from across Southeast Asia through an open call, features creative work that envisions a sustainable, hopeful future rooted in local culture and community resilience,” Jeronimo said.
“Through a network of connected creative collaborations, artists re-imagined what a solarpunk future in the region could look like, while digging deeper on speculative scenarios of what a holistic version of Cambodia could be, one focused on community, inclusivity, sustainability and a harmonious relationship with the land and its nature.”
Solarpunk is an emerging artistic and literary movement that presents a striking alternative to dystopian visions such as cyberpunk. It envisions - and actively strives to create - a future in which nature and community flourish, sustained by renewable energy and grounded in cooperative, community-based practices.
The term “solar” signifies optimism and the embrace of clean energy, while “punk” reflects a countercultural, Do-It-Yourself ethos. This project seeks to cultivate a distinctly Southeast Asian expression of solarpunk by integrating local cultural traditions, indigenous knowledge and resilient ways of living.
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Kampong Thom proved the inspiration for nine artists who let their creativity unleash during a five-day residency exploring the themes of solarpunk while learning ancestral aesthetics and indigenous practices to integrate with green technologies and sustainable strategies.
From September 25 to 30, the group of creatives - a mix of males and females aged from their early 20s to 40s from various nationalities - took part in a variety of field trips, workshop sessions and creative exercises, as well as discussions and sharing sessions to help shape their creative works.
Selected artists from Cambodia, the region and the wider world produced original artworks during the residency at Sambor village in Kampong Thom. During the trip, they visited ancient Sambor Prei Kuk temples, a Kui indigenous village, and sacred forests for inspiration.
The fruits of their labour will feature in an exhibition at F3 - Friends Futures Factory, from noon to 4pm on October 4, which forms part of Clean Energy Week’s activities. It will be paired with the screening of short films by Department of Media and Communications students.
“Their work will be complemented by various pieces submitted by artists from all over Southeast Asia in an open call related to the project,” said organiser, Miguel Jeronimo, adding that the call attracted 13 artists, with a total of 23 artists’ work on display.
“This exhibition of original art by the resident artists and pieces from across Southeast Asia through an open call, features creative work that envisions a sustainable, hopeful future rooted in local culture and community resilience,” Jeronimo said.
“Through a network of connected creative collaborations, artists re-imagined what a solarpunk future in the region could look like, while digging deeper on speculative scenarios of what a holistic version of Cambodia could be, one focused on community, inclusivity, sustainability and a harmonious relationship with the land and its nature.”
Solarpunk is an emerging artistic and literary movement that presents a striking alternative to dystopian visions such as cyberpunk. It envisions - and actively strives to create - a future in which nature and community flourish, sustained by renewable energy and grounded in cooperative, community-based practices.
The term “solar” signifies optimism and the embrace of clean energy, while “punk” reflects a countercultural, Do-It-Yourself ethos. This project seeks to cultivate a distinctly Southeast Asian expression of solarpunk by integrating local cultural traditions, indigenous knowledge and resilient ways of living.
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