The Lab is an initiative with engaging programmes that take the artist’s studio beyond the residency to be among the community where the artist and the participants collaborate, inspire and learn from each other.
实验室是一项具有参与性的计划，它将艺术家的工作室从驻留地延伸到社区中，让艺术家和参与者相互合作、相互启发、相互学习。
2025
July – Puvamin Indee
“Photographic Memory Survey Project Paradise Island”
Puvamin Indee’s workshops are part of his AiR project Photographic Memory Survey Project Paradise Island.
He conducted three image transfer workshops. Each workshop was held in one of the three selected communities in Koh Samui. They are a village shop in Na Muang (Bang Kao), a temple Wat Sawang Arom in Chaweng and Nathon Historical- Samui in Nathon. A total of seventeen local individuals across generations participated. Materials like photos and interviews gathered from the workshops are integrated into the documentary Memories of Paradise Island.
Participants of each workshops contributed photos of their choice and worked together with Puvamin to create a photo collage work. Some of them had their old photos scanned and reprinted and mounted as sovenir in order to preserve their memory. The collage artworks are ” Memories from People in Na Muang”, “Memories from People in Chaweng” and “Memories from People in Nathon”
Materials gathered from Puvamin’s workshops are an important source for his documentary Memories on the Paradise Island but also encapsulated the ethos of The Lab programme: fostering community engagement through collaborative art-making. His thoughtful approach extended beyond artistic outcomes, creating moments of shared reflection and connection.
Puvamin Ineed 的工作坊是其驻地艺术项目《天堂岛影像记忆调查项目》的一部分。
他举办了三场图像转印工作坊，每场工作坊分别在苏梅岛的三个特定社区举行：Na Muang的村庄小店（Bang Kao）、Chaweng的寺庙Wat Sawang Arom，以及Nathon的Nathon历史档案中心（Nathon Historical-Samui）。共有来自不同世代的十七位当地居民参与了这些工作坊。工作坊中收集的照片和访谈材料被整合进了纪录片《天堂岛的记忆》。
每场工作坊的参与者都带来了自己选择的照片，并与普瓦敏合作创作了一件照片拼贴作品。其中一些参与者将他们的老照片扫描、重新打印并装裱为纪念品，以保存他们的记忆。最终完成的拼贴作品包括《来自Na Muang人们 的记忆》、《来自Nathon人们的记忆》、《来自Chaweng 人们的记忆》。
Puvamin 的工作坊不仅直接为他的纪录片 《天堂岛的记忆》 提供了重要素材，也完美体现了 The Lab 计划的精神：通过合作式艺术创作促进社区参与。Puvamin 的方法不仅关注艺术成果，还创造了许多反思与交流的时刻。
Workshops plan 工作坊计划
“Memories from People in Chaweng workshop”
《来自Chaweng 人们的记忆 》工作坊
“Memories from People in Na Muang “workshop
《来自Na Muang人们的记忆 》工作坊
”Memories from People in Nathon“ workshop
《来自Nathon人们 的记忆 》 工作坊
July – Hou Lam Tsui
“Khụ̄n Khārāxokea“
The artist and the curator developed the project concept entirely from scratch on the island, collaboratively structuring and executing the project. However, what set this year apart with Hou Lam Tsui was that the community participants were not preselected by me prior to the residency. Instead, we met them serendipitously during a karaoke party at the beach hosted by Dr. Rames.
With the help of Puvamin, we organized a karaoke night at the residence, inviting the same group of beach karaoke participants along with their friends. Hou Lam filmed the event, turning it into an MTV-style video titled Khụ̄n Khārāxokea. During the potluck gathering, thirteen community members performed songs of personal and cultural significance. The resulting footage captures collective singing, often mismatched with the music playing, and body movements during dancing—sometimes filmed in slow motion. These subtle moments reveal the distance between the artist and her subjects, emphasizing her role as a close yet detached spectator, quietly observing in proximity the interplay of connection and cultural expressions.
艺术家和策展人在岛上从零开始共同构思、设计并完成了整个项目。然而，与徐皓霖合作的这一年有所不同，社区参与者并不是在驻地计划开始前由我提前选定的。相反，我们是在一次由Rames医生主持的海滩卡拉OK聚会上偶然认识了他们。
在 Puvamin的帮助下，我们在驻留別墅举办了一场卡拉 OK 夜晚，并邀请了之前参加海滩卡拉 OK 的同一群人以及他们的朋友。徐皓霖记录了整个活动，并将其制作成一支MTV风格的视频，名为《K歌之夜》。在这次聚餐活动中，共有13名社区成员表演了对他们个人和文化意义重大的歌曲。最终的视频捕捉到了集体歌唱的场景，歌声常常与播放的音乐不完全匹配，而他们跳舞时的肢体动作，有时以慢动作拍摄，也被细致地记录下来。这些微妙的瞬间揭示了艺术家与她记录对象之间的距离，突显了她作为一个贴近却又疏离的观察者的角色，静静地见证着连接与文化表达之间的交织。
2024
Ground View Project November 2024
The Lab invited two international schools ISS and PBISS to collabrate with Li Weiyi to produce her artworks in two seperate workshops. The artist and the curator worked closely to formulate the artwork concept and workshop activities. The results are Ground View 1 and Ground View 2 of the Ground View Project.
Ground View project is inspired by animism beliefs. In Ground View 1 and 2 participants worked in a pair to 3D scan each other’s hands placed on the rock and their feet on sand bead respectively. The scans would be submitted to the artist who would then using 3D modeling to construct them into the final artwork. The participants are connected with the nature and created memories together through the workshops. The final artworks reveal a imagined perspective which the nature quietly being part of our activities.
石之所见，沙之所见” 项目 2024年11月
The Lab 邀请 ISS 和 PBISS 两所国际学校与李维伊合作，在两个不同的工作坊中制作她的艺术作品。艺术家和策展人密切合作，共同制定了概念和工作坊活动。这就是 “地景项目 ”的 “地景 1 ”和 “地景 2”。
“石之所见，沙之所见” 项目的灵感来自万物有灵论的信仰。在 “地景 1 ”和 “地景 2 ”中，参与者两人一组，分别对彼此放在岩石上的手和放在沙珠上的脚进行 3D 扫描。扫描结果将提交给艺术家，艺术家将使用三维建模技术将其构建成最终的艺术作品。通过工作坊，参与者与大自然融为一体，共同创造了美好的回忆。最终的作品展现了一种想象的视角，即大自然静静地成为我们活动的一部分。
Ground View 1 “石之所见，沙之所见 1“
14 November 2024 at ISS activity room with participating 24 students and a teacher
2024 年 11 月 14 日，在ISS活动室，师参加者有24 名学生和一名教
ISS
“石之所见，沙之所见 2“
23 November 2024 at Samrong Beach with 11 participants including students, parent and teachers from PBISS
2024 年 11 月 23 日，Samrong海滩，参加者11 人，包括 PBISS 的学生、家长和教师
PBISS
