Community-based Art: A Creation of Arts and Culture Space

Abstract

The paper aims to study and explain the process of community-based art using the case study of Ratchaburi Province. By studying relevant documents, recording the processes of artists working in the community, and observing people involved in the arts and culture of the community from 2011-2018, the researcher has found that community-based art is an interdisciplinary artform involving regional collaborations and networks. It represents the expansion to different communities of socially- and community-engaged art. This type of art has operating guidelines that play an important role in driving arts and culture in the community as well as social issues and the economy.¬¬¬ It appears to have the effect of gradually promoting the understanding of arts and culture among people in the community and the larger society. Its role is to make a space for art and culture that creates value and acceptance of differences and diversity in a constantly changing society, and gives art value as cultural capital.