Animistic Apparatus Lab Work
Motion sensors circuit, on-site insects, unearthed soil, light bulbs, projector, mirror, incense
A collaboration performance by
(Red) Nguyen Hai Yen & Sim Hoi Ling x Xia Lin & Sheryl Cheung (lololol.net)
2019
Ruminating on sayings such as 'flying moth darts into the flame' and cultural beliefs that 'the deceased will return on the 7th day in the form of insect', the installation consists of a self-recursive sensor circuit which goes forth between lighting up the mirror image of the spectator and illuminating the larger surroundings. It utilises on-site presences such as movements of moths and insects as activators of the device.
The recursive nature of this device further illustrates one’s perpetual pursuit between the flame illuminating the self and the flame illuminating the surrounding world.
Accompanied by video art entitled 'VR' by Manassak Khlongchainan, projected on mass unearthed soil under stagnant water. The device and performance situate nearby Baan Chiang Museum, where Baan Chiang is known as a renowned archaeological site and prehistoric settlement in South East Asia.
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ABOUT Animistic Apparatus
" Animistic Apparatus is a curatorial and book project exploring the affinity between animism and artists’ moving image practices. It experiments with the concept of animistic cinematic medium as a model of mediation, exchange, and communication, whose method of form-making is routed through Southeast Asia’s genealogies of media and ritual apparatus and cosmology. The project places contemporary artists' moving image practices, such as those of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lav Diaz, Ho Tzu Nyen, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, in the company of itinerant film projection rituals performed as an offering addressed to powerful nonhuman presence in and around Thailand during the Cold War. Its curatorial method creates an assembly of resonant practices and artefacts, proposing this provisional grouping as significant non-western examples for exploring key present-day questions about the relationship between mediation, conceptions of life, and historical, cosmological and ecological imaginaries."
http://mayadadol.info/index.php/project/animistic-apparatus/
Performers | (Red) Nguyen Hai Yen & Sim Hoi Ling with Xia Lin & Sheryl Cheung (lololol.net)
Video | “VR”(2017) by Manasak Khlongchainan
Installation | Sim Hoi Ling
Co creation | Kridpuj Dhansandors & Vipas Prachyaporn
Photography by Yui Danaya & Sim Hoi Ling.
