THIS IS FINE

An Exhibition in Six Biomes
What Is It?
WHERE: Pa Rang Cafe and Art Stay
WHEN: Opening and Events: 19 November
Exhibition available for viewing: 19-21 November
CONTEXT: Localised response to COP31

Micro Galleries and Pa Rang have combined forces to coordinate and curate a three-day climate awareness experience alongside the international climate conference taking place in in Turkey (COP31).

Pa Rang's outdoor grounds become a microcosm of the earth - a landscape you walk through, biome by biome, tracing a local X global journey through climate disruption, mitigation, and imagined solutions.

Each biome carries its own kind of pressure, purpose, beauty and innovative solutions. Together, they hold the interconnection between them: what happens in one system is never separate from the rest. We are all interconnected and inter-dependent, and together, we can create interconnected solutions.

Forests, rivers, oceans, grasslands, deserts and polar regions are connected through shared climate, water, biodiversity and atmospheric systems, meaning disruption in one place can trigger consequences thousands of kilometres away.

Scientific research increasingly shows that lasting climate solutions require communities to share knowledge, experience and innovation across borders, because no ecosystem, and no community, can thrive alone.

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EXHIBITION I COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS I TALKS I LIVE MUSIC
PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
OPENING: 19 November, 2026 @ Pa Rang
Create Climate Terracotta Warriors
Workshop // Free
Thousands of clay warriors once stood guard, each unique. Now it’s time to raise a new army for the climate. In this hands-on workshop with artist Nut Jai, sculpt your own small clay figure and sign its base. It joins the Climate Terracotta Warriors, a collaborative installation growing with every participant. No experience needed. Make yours serious, silly, or fierce. Drop in for all three hours or for 10 mins. Plus, there’s great coffee from the cafe.

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3pm - 6pm
Social Weaving: Breathe In, Weave Out
Workshop // Free
Every year, Chiang Mai’s air changes colour: green, yellow, then the red and purple of burning season. This workshop turns that data into something tangible. Together, we’ll upcycle used plastic bags into strips and weave them into a giant communal graph of PM2.5. Each colour marks an air quality level; each row, real days. No experience needed. Weave for ten minutes or the whole session, chat, and leave your mark. The finished piece joins the This is Fine exhibition.

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3pm - 6pm
Pecha Kucha 20x20 on climate and art
Talk // Free
The climate crisis is too big for a long lecture, so we’re making it micro. Six speakers get 20 slides at 20 seconds each: six minutes and forty seconds, no waffling. Artists, thinkers and makers share how art helps us understand, feel and act on the crisis. Expect sharp ideas, striking images and surprises. Grab a drink, hear six perspectives in under an hour, then continue the conversation among the artworks.

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6pm -7pm
Explore Artworks
Exhibition // Free
Walk the earth in one night. Get your passport and torch upon entry, find each biome and get stamped. Each biome holds a range of artworks in moving image, installation, sound, sculpture and performance, exploring how the climate crisis is felt, and shifting, in that place. Wander from forest to polar, and notice the threads running between them. Nothing here stands alone, and neither do we.

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7pm - 9pm
Broccoli Blossom
Music Response // Free
Dan & Paw bring two worlds together. Dan’s jazz guitar and Paw’s vocals, moving freely between modern jazz, ambient, downtempo and unexpected bursts of drum & bass. Their music is playful, calming and a little unpredictable , an invitation to slow down, get curious and let the sound take you somewhere.
7pm - 9pm
DAY TWO: 20 November, 2026 @ Pa Rang
Explore Artworks
Exhibition // Free
Walk the earth in one night. Get your passport and torch upon entry, find each biome and get stamped. Each biome holds a range of artworks in moving image, installation, sound, sculpture and performance, exploring how the climate crisis is felt, and shifting, in that place. Wander from forest to polar, and notice the threads running between them. Nothing here stands alone, and neither do we.

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11am - 6pm
LAST DAY: 21 November, 2026 @ Pa Rang
Explore Artworks
Exhibition // Free
Walk the earth in one night. Get your passport and torch upon entry, find each biome and get stamped. Each biome holds a range of artworks in moving image, installation, sound, sculpture and performance, exploring how the climate crisis is felt, and shifting, in that place. Wander from forest to polar, and notice the threads running between them. Nothing here stands alone, and neither do we.

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11am - 6pm
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This is Fine: Participating Artists
Artists across Asia-Pacific exploring shifting environments and community inter-connection.
  • Naznin Ahmed // Bangladesh
    Skin, 2026
    Naznin is a multidisciplinary artist. Her practice spans painting, drawing, animation, moving image, sound, installation, and material experimentation. Through a research-based approach, she explores how migration, labour, colonial extraction, and environmental change shape relationships between people, materials, and landscapes. A significant part of her ongoing practice examines the histories and lived experiences of tea worker communities in Bangladesh, particularly the intergenerational effects of colonial plantation systems. Working with materials such as tea leaves and tea pigments, she investigates how histories of labour, displacement, memory, and cultural transformation become embedded in everyday materials and landscapes. She holds a BFA and MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Chittagong. Her work has been presented in exhibitions in Bangladesh and internationally, including ''Backyard Biennale East 2026'' in London,UK. She received an Honorable Mention at the 24th Young Artists’ Art Exhibition in 2025.
  • IJWBAA // Philippines
    Echoes of the Aquatic Biomes
    IJWBAA [eej-wah] is a Filipino digital artist, neologist, and the first Filipino recognized in Techspressionism. He originated Decolonial Minimalism, an art movement reclaiming minimalism through ancestral memory and cultural reawakening, cited in 2025 academic research and indexed in Google Scholar.

    His work was shortlisted for the Hiiibrand Design and Illustration Awards 2024 and selected for The Wrong Biennale’s 7th Edition. In 2026, Inabal joined MoCA L.I.ghts in New York; in 2027, Habi appeared in Paris at Techspressionism: New Visual Languages. His two-volume I Just Wannabe an Artist is archived in the Uffizi, Reina Sofía, Getty Research Institute, and the National Museum of the Philippines, which also holds Decolonial Minimalism.
  • Nutja
    Terracotta Climate Warriors
    Natthawut Jaikla (Nutja) is a sculptor and storyteller. His artistic practice focuses on terracotta, mixed media, and installation art. Through his work, he addresses significant social issues, including human rights, animal rights, climate change, and cultural concerns.
  • Juno-Benyapa Janssen // Thailand
    Juno's Jungle
    Juno is a Chiang Mai-based Thai artist, designer, and eco-activist born in 1989. Deeply influenced by her Lanna heritage, she blends traditional northern Thai handicrafts with contemporary, experimental aesthetics. In 2015, she founded JUNO's JUNGLE, a sustainable brand producing wearable art from upcycled textiles, secondhand clothes, and recycled materials. Through independent art exhibitions and stop-motion projects like Mutation Frequency, Janssen explores ecological themes, nuclear contamination, and environmental debris, transforming heavy issues into vibrant, whimsical, and monstrous visual narratives.

  • Miguel Jeronimo // Portugal/Cambodia
    Ancestral Futures
    Miguel is a freelance photographer, curator, writer and artist based in Phnom Penh for ten years, with 90+ exhibitions in Cambodia on environment, inequality, gender, disability and human rights. With a background in robotics and emotions in artificial intelligence, his work has appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique, Southeast Asia Globe, Perspectives Hong Kong, New Naratif and Mekong Review. He won bronze at the Cheongju Craft Biennale 2021, showed at the International Angkor Photo Festival and ASEM, curated at BACC in Bangkok, and was special jury selection for Points of Return in Massachusetts. Clients include UNICEF, WHO, Pulitzer Center and GIZ.
  • Toi Kochsomrong // Thailand
    Ice Performance
    Phadungsak (Toi) Kochasamrong, a lecturer at Chiang Mai University (1993-96/2002-68) and an interdisciplinary artist who graduated in Painting and Art Education. Former Director of Studio Xang Foundation, Committee of The Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival, Thailand. Ajan Toi is the creator of ARTANYWAY in Chiang Mai
  • Natalie Limwatana // Thailand
    Under the See; Coral
    Natalie Limwatana (b. 1980, UK/Thailand) lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She works primarily with painting and installations. Her work explores perspectives and values, our connection to nature, our place as part of it, and our story of separation from it. She is fascinated by nature and the beauty and diversity of life on this planet, drawing inspiration from the cycles of life, growth, decay, and transformation. She understands that all life on this planet is delicately woven together, each life linked to many others via a complex web of relationships.
  • Pietro Lo Casto // Italy/Thailand
    Moist Maps
    Pietro Lo Casto is an Italian artist based in Chiang Mai since 2021, where he completed an MFA at Chiang Mai University. In Northern Thailand he has been drawn to places and communities shaped by histories of ecological, social, and cultural transformation. Through a research-based, site-responsive approach, his work spans photography, sculpture, installation, writing, and collaborative initiatives.
    In 2025, supported by the Unidee Illy Award from Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, he initiated “Moist Maps”, a collaborative initiative bringing together artists, activists, and local communities to reimagine the Mekong through the materiality of its river weeds. The project was presented at the “Collaboration Afield” conference at Harvard University.

    Pietro has exhibited internationally, including at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) and Pattani Biennale, and published in e-flux and Asia Pacific Viewpoint. His article “Learning How to See” examines how shared visual practices can challenge extractive ways of seeing and support local perspectives.
  • Miguel Punzalan // Philippines
    Exhalations
    Miguel Punzalan (b.1991) is an interdisciplinary visual arts practitioner based in Rizal, Philippines. His work explores surrealism within the intersections of physical space, material culture, and everyday life in the urban tropics. Spanning painting, illustration, experimental art, and video performance, his work engages critically with themes of identity, memory, society, and the quiet mechanics of human existence.
  • Kat Roma Greer // Australia-Hong Kong-Thailand
    Summer's End
    Kat is a cultural manager, curator, creator, and urban disruptor for regenerative change.
    She is driven by a belief that art must inhabit the cracks in the world: the forgotten edges, the places where systems breakdown and perspectives are not being heard - and, from those fractures, build something regenerative. Her practice is built on “creative insurgencies”: tactical, site-specific and site-responsive interventions that reclaim public space for communities, and together reinvent it as a site of imagination and collective agency.

    Through Micro Galleries she has delivered 38+ initiatives across 30+ countries, from kampung communities in Jakarta, Arctic coastlines in Svalbard, townships in Cape Town, to overlooked towns in rural Australia. She is currently developing two creative works that centre the vital nature of polar environments.
  • Nishka Samant // India
    an ocean without water
    Nishka Samant is a Mumbai - based multidisciplinary artist working primarily with the mediums of paper and clay. Her work with clay revolves around creating miniatures and sculptures via exploration of colours, textures and experimentation with the inherent transformative abilities of the material. Nishka's paper based compositions are rooted in a love for the bizarre. She focuses on assembling found images, archival material and vintage print to construct unexpected visual narratives.
  • Davina Singgih // Indonesia
    New Earth 1.1
    Davina is an emerging mixed media artist from Jakarta, Indonesia.
    Initially an infinite visual diary of her inner world, her drawings gradually evolved into digital illustrations and mixed media art. She works extensively with expired makeup products, drawn to the challenge of building up pigments and the raw yet smooth results they create on textured paper. Picking up themes around facades, she finds the varying characteristics of cosmetics to be more honest and personal compared to traditional store-bought soft pastels.
  • Jakkrapan Sriwichai // Thailand
    Jakkrapan Sriwichai is a filmmaker and video artist from Chiang Mai, Thailand. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Chiang Mai University. He works as an independent filmmaker, video artist, and performer. His short film BEING OF NEGLECTED has been screened at several international film festivals including Busan International Short Film Festival, and REINCARNATED LIGHT which was screened at Open Doors Shorts at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival. Recently, he was a participant in Locarno Film Festival's Open Doors Consultancy, Berlinale Talents 2021, and Locarno Film Festival's Open Doors: Immersion Program 2021.
  • Skyman // Nepal/Thailand
    Year After Year
    Aakashman Tuladhar (Sky) is an emerging documentary photographer and filmmaker from Nepal, currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. Working across visual ethnography, editorial photojournalism, and community-centered storytelling, his practice examines intimate human experiences shaped by cultural heritage, environmental precarity, and everyday resilience. Through an observational lens, Aakashman documents underrepresented grassroots narratives across South and Southeast Asia, focusing on the quiet textures of marginalized communities navigating modern change. His visual installations combine moving image, field audio, and photographic stills. Alongside independent documentary film work, Sky has led field photography and multimedia storytelling for local non-profit initiatives—producing visual assets for donor campaigns, advocacy media, and an upcoming showcase at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).
  • Anonymous // Thailand
    Create, Cure, Decay
    Working under no name, this artist has spent over a decade making work about ecosystems in transition: the slow, often invisible ways landscapes change when climate, water, and human habits shift around them.

    They prefer anonymity because they believe the work should be encountered the way a river is, without a signature in the corner.
  • Shirley Wong //
    Singapore
    Curator, Writer, Artist
    Shirley Wong is a Singaporean curator, writer, artist and communications practitioner whose work explores how people encounter art, culture and one another. After more than 15 years in corporate communications and investor relations, she shifted her attention towards museums, public engagement and contemporary art. Her practice moves between curating, writing, research and artistic experimentation, with a particular interest in audiences who feel uncertain, excluded or underrepresented in cultural spaces. She is the founder of SUM+ARTS and ART PADI, an Asian Civilisations Museum docent, and a graduate of NUS Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship and SOAS Asian Art, based in Singapore today.
This is Fine Curators
Micro Galleries always partners with the most exceptional talent who have deep cultural connections and knowledge of the communities we hope to work with.
  • Bora Hong
    Multidisciplinary designer, artist, and curator.
    Bora earned her BA in Fiber Art from Kyungwon University (now Gachon University) in South Korea before working as an interior designer in Seoul. Seeking to explore the intersection of art and design, she pursued a second BA in Product Design at Central Saint Martins in London, followed by an MA in Contextual Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.During her MA, Bora developed a narrative-driven approach to her work, with her graduation project, Cosmetic Surgery Kingdom, gaining significant attention from galleries and media. Her works have since been exhibited internationally, including at the Van Abbe Museum (Netherlands), MUDAC Museum (Switzerland), and design events like Dutch Design Week, Milan Design Festival, and London Design Week.

    Currently based in Chiang Mai, Bora continues to bridge art, design, and craft across cultures through her work at Pa Rang Cafe & Art Stay and Thapae East, fostering collaboration among diverse creators.
    // South Korea, based in Thailand
  • Kat Roma Greer
    Interdisciplinary Artist and Curator
    Kat is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural manager. Based in Asia for 15 years, she leverages 26 years of experience in arts, event, project, curatorial and cultural management. Kat holds degrees in Theatre, Classical Singing, and English Literature, including a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from the University of Sydney. As the founder of the internationally renowned initiative, Micro Galleries, she champions dynamic creative practices, collaboration, and cultural knowledge-sharing focused on addressing the climate crisis. She has recently been recognised as creating on of the Top 10 Culture for Impact initiatives by the Museum for the United Nations, a winner of University of Wollongong Alumni Awards for Arts and Culture, and was named one of Australia's 100 Women of Influence for Culture.
    // Australia, Hong Kong, and Thailand
Our Program Partners
tomorrow.Lab is a collective of futurists, explorers of spheres that unites art and science. The collective encourages an open conversation with local individuals, communities, and cities; everyone, to actively participate in the world of tomorrow.
Pa Rang Cafe & Art Stay is a multi-activity space for creatives. Cafe/ Airbnb/workshop/gallery/event in the heart of Chiang Mai old town.
Supporting artists and cultural practitioners from Switzerland and disseminate their projects in Switzerland and abroad, committed to international cultural exchange and initiate cultural and thematic programmes
Arai-eek Co-Laboratory & Arai-eek Lab Residency is a format of mutual learning and knowledge exchange rooted in a shared fascination with biology - from ecological science to synthetic biology — merged with digital technologies and traditional craft. Linking the Global Hackteria Network and SGMK (Swiss Mechatronic Art Society) with tomorrow.lab and Pa Rang Art Company in Thailand, CoLabs emphasises Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) participation and experimentation across diverse perspectives.
Hackteria operates on a global scale, and is based on a web platform and a wiki for sharing knowledge, which enable anyone to learn but also test different ways of hacking living systems.
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