Studio 88 Artist Residency and Len Yai Performance present:
GARDEN OF 2025
NOVEMBER 18 2025 – HAAN STUDIO, CHIANG MAI
Katherine Clarke Langlands (USA)
Katherine Clarke Langlands (USA) is a visual and conceptual artist whose earthinspired practice moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, installation, and activations. Each work is part of a continuous exploration of color, form, and space. Her exhibitions investigate themes of perception, nature, and the intersections of the physical and conceptual realms revealing poetics shaped by both landscape and lived experience.
Her work has been exhibited across North America since 2006, including in the past four years at Minėmå Gallery, Spring Street Gallery, Nickerson Projects, SCOPE Miami, St. Kate Arts Gallery, SAIC Galleries, and the 2025 New Art School Modality Arts/Writing Symposium at Hauser & Wirth NY, where she presented her painting series, Good Spots. She created Stone Hug during her 2025 Pocoapoco Residency in Oaxaca, and Brick Purse during her 2024 Poor Farm Experiment Residency a publication and sculpture series of nine ready-to-wear statement purses made from repurposed bricks and fishline that offer a witty commentary on the hegemonic demands placed on women. The project was later featured at TRYST in association with the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles.
Langlands studied Studio Art, Sociology, and Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Vermont before completing her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a Regional Studio Resident at the Vermont Studio Center, takes ongoing courses through the New Art School Modality in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth in New York, and is part of the artist collective The Neurotic Kittens. With deep roots in Vermont’s snowboarding culture, her art grew from this environment and remains shaped by the rhythms of this that surround her.
Katherine Clarke Langlands, USA
Chiang Mai, Thailand Studio 88/Haan Studio
Design, 2025
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Virginia Kennard (NZ)
Virginia Kennard is an explicit body performance artist and movement practitioner from Aotearoa New Zealand. She makes discomfiting queer feminist works that interrogate the gaze, private-made-public, and commodified bodies.
Virginia's current performance research is becoming-with dirt. Human comes from the word humus, meaning soil: humans as soil made flesh. Composting as climate solution, and a bodily action for mental health, are essential facets of Virginia's practice. She is rolling around in the dirt.
Virginia holds an MA Performance from Leeds Beckett University and will be studying towards an MPhil in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales in 2026. She has been a performance maker, an arts manager, arts teacher, dance teacher, stripper, life model, and event producer for the last 20 years.
Virginia is privileged to have performed in real life and online in the UK, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Austria, Romania, Australia, and now Thailand.
https://viggimakesart.nz/
Nontawat Machai (TH)
Born in Phatthalung Province, southern Thailand. He studied performing arts at Chiang Mai University and is currently based in Chiang Mai, where he creates theatre with the Lanyim Theatre group and works with the People’s History Archive of Northern Thailand at Heuan Khru Angoon Malik (Suan Anya), part of The Jayawana Foundation.
He is a producer, university lecturer, theatre-maker, and contemporary performing arts practitioner. He is a member of Lanyim Theatre, founder of the PaPhayom Community Theatre in his hometown, and the owner of MAMA Studio.
He continues to travel and create performance works across Southeast Asia while developing both the Chiang Mai Performing Arts Festival and the COZOMIA Performing Arts Archives.
Instagram: @nontawat machai
Ebony Rattle (AUS)
Ebony Rattle is an artist, arts worker and disability advocate of Irish and Ukranian Jewish ancestry based on Wurundjeri Country, Australia. Their work investigates performance art through an experimental and accessible methodology, predominantly examining metaphysics; alternative universes steeped in questioning identity, existence, possibility, actuality, corporeality, informed by their own lived experience as a physically disabled queer person.
Recent theatre credits as writer/director include afterglow.exe (2025, Melbourne Fringe Festival), Destroyed (2024, Theatre Works/Midsumma Festival), Winona (2022 - 2024 National and International Tour), which was nominated for Best Two Person Show and Best International Show at the Hollywood Fringe awards 2023, Ring, Ring! (2021, Theatre Works) and BLITZ (2019, Melbourne Fringe Festival). Their work has been performed around Australia, the United States and now Thailand.
They also have over a decade of experience working as a sound engineer, production manager and producer across Australia and Asia, mainly working with contemporary and classical music, circus, theatre, ballet and opera. They are passionate about access and inclusion in the arts, and currently work in the equity department for local government in Australia and are an advisory group member for LGBTQIA+ Health Australia and Inclusive Rainbow Voices.
www.ebonyrattle.com
Instagram: @ebonyrah
