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 , Xia Lin & Sheryl Cheung (lololol.net)
2019
Insects activated installation accompanied with video work “VR” by Manassak Khlongchainan, comprises footage of the massacre of socialists on the ground of Thammasat University Bangkok in 1976. Projected on unearthed soil under stagnant water, together with a sensor switch set up that goes forth between lighting up the image of self in the mirror or the larger surroundings. The projection and performance took place at the area beside Baan Chiang Museum, where Baan Chiang itself is 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” by Manasak Khlongchainan (2017)
Installation :: Sim Hoi Ling
Co-creation :: Kridpuj Dhansandors & Vipas Prachyaporn
Photography by Yui Danaya & Sim Hoi Ling.
