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https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/transnationalism_print_rorysheridan-8_MISkYGg.width-200.jpg 200w, https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/transnationalism_print_rorysheridan-8_MISkYGg.width-340.jpg 340w, https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/transnationalism_print_rorysheridan-8_MISkYGg.width-420.jpg 420w, https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/transnationalism_print_rorysheridan-8_MISkYGg.width-540.jpg 540w, https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/transnationalism_print_rorysheridan-8_MISkYGg.width-840.jpg 840w, https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/transnationalism_print_rorysheridan-8_MISkYGg.width-1200.jpg 1200w, " sizes=" (max-width: 340px) 340px, (max-width: 479px) 420px, (max-width: 540px) 200px, (max-width: 840px) 340px, (max-width: 1024px) 420px, (max-width: 1200px) 540px, (max-width: 1420px) 840px, 1200px, " > <img alt="a woman speaks into a microphone" src="https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/transnationalism_print_rorysheridan-8_MISkYGg.width-340.jpg" loading="lazy" width="340" height="226" > </picture> <figcaption class="image__caption"> <p data-block-key="4ostm">May Adadol Ingawanij speaking at ‘Transnationalism and its Limits: Mobility and Contemporaneity in Thai Art’, a seminar organised by the <a href="/research/research-centres/tate-research-centre-asia">Tate Research Centre: Asia</a> at Tate Modern, 22 June 2017.<br/>Photo © Tate</p> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="article-media__block"> <figure class="article-media__figure"> <picture> <source srcset=" https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/douglas_gordon_hires_t74QvNv.width-340.jpg 340w, https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/douglas_gordon_hires_t74QvNv.width-420.jpg 420w, 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src="https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/douglas_gordon_hires_t74QvNv.width-340.jpg" loading="lazy" width="340" height="226" > </picture> <figcaption class="image__caption"> <p data-block-key="cojyh">A view of part of Douglas Gordon’s site-specific installation, <i>Pretty much every word written spoken heard overheard from 1989</i> in Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, 2010. 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