Animistic Apparatus Lab Work
A collaboration performance by
(Red) Nguyen Hai Yen & Sim Hoi Ling x Xia Lin & Sheryl Cheung (lololol.net)
Performance | (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
2019
Video “VR” discusses about identity searching and virtual reality. It is 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, only to be activated by outer forces such as on-site insects and entities. 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."
