In fact, in 2019, former Vice President of the United States Mike Pence gave an important speech regarding China’s debt trap, and he cited Sri Lanka as the case study. As you mentioned, Sri Lanka is under a major debt trap by China. The Chinese are having a major presence in Sri Lanka and it seems that the Sri Lankan government is under a debt trap by China. Thomas is the founder and CEO of New Eelam ().Tamil Eelam will become a reality in not too far future, which aims to realise accountability of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide committed by Sri Lanka against Tamil minority, said Rudrakumaran Visvanathan, the ‘Prime Minister’ of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE). Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, as well as a new commission with the V-A-C Foundation for the 58th Venice Biennale. Recent exhibitions include I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018) New Eelam: Tensta, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm (2017) Christopher Kulendran Thomas New Galerie, Paris (2017) moving is in every direction, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2017) Bread and Roses, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2016) Co-Workers: Network As Artist, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2015) and Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making, Tate Liverpool (2013). His work has been included in the 7th Bi-City Biennale, Shenzhen (2017) the 11th Gwangju Biennale the 9th Berlin Biennale and the 3rd Dhaka Art Summit (all 2016).
This first UK presentation of New Eelam provides a timely opportunity to consider new possibilities for the architecture and experience of citizenshipĬhristopher Kulendran Thomas is an artist who manipulates some of the structural processes by which art produces reality. The exhibition also features a collection of micro videos that explore how a new economic model could emerge out of the existing economic system rather than in opposition to it. Taking as a departure point the once self-governed – but now non-existent – homeland from which the artist’s Sri Lankan Tamil family originates, the film looks at the political and historical horizons of the venture. Within this immersive environment, visitors can view New Eelam’s speculative documentary, 60 million Americans can’t be wrong, which introduces the post-capitalist housing proposal. New Eelam’s ‘concept space’ at Spike Island – part of the company’s research and development process – is a sci-fi vision of an alternate reality, featuring technologies such as hydroponic home-farming systems presented here as living sculptures. Initiated as a long-term artwork in the form of a startup, the venture has brought together an interdisciplinary team of specialists across the fields of technology, art, real estate, finance and architecture to explore how a more liquid form of citizenship could be constructed beyond national boundaries.ĭeveloped in collaboration with curator Annika Kuhlmann, New Eelam originates from contemporary art’s role in reimagining cities, from styles of living to forms of labour.
New Eelam is a real estate technology company founded by artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas in order to develop a global housing subscription based on collective co-ownership rather than individually owned private property.
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