(EVA17) Experimental Video Art 17, Exhibition Thai-European Friendship 2020

 

 

Artist's list

 

1. Alicja Rogalska (Poland) “Tear Dealer” Pal, Color, Sound, 11.58 min., 2014.

Concept:

    Tear Dealer opened for a few days in July 2014 on a high street lined with pawnshops, second-hand shops and loan sharks in Lublin, south-eastern Poland, in an area of high unemployment and socio-economic exclusion. In the specially arranged premises reminiscent of a bank, a beauty salon or a dressing room people could produce and sell their tears for approximately €25 for 3ml (just over half a teaspoon). The project constituted a perverse reversal of the logic of affective labour, allowing people to collectively express and capitalise on their feelings of despair, anger, sadness, and frustration in a supportive, yet suitably exploitative environment. Nearly 200 people participated in the project, which had to close early because funds were exhausted sooner than envisaged. Tear Dealer attracted huge media attention and coverage worldwide sparking a discussion on the commercialisation of emotions. Collaboration with Łukasz Surowiec.
    Commissioned by Rewiry - Socially Engaged Art Workshop in Lublin and curated by Szymon Pietrasiewicz.

2. Alicja Rogalska (Poland) “Untitled (Broniow Song)” Pal, Color, Sound, 11.58 min., 2011.

Concept:

    A contemporary folk-song on the socio-economic situation of the rural area of Southern Masovia, Poland, known for its rich folk music traditions and the highest unemployment in the country at the time. The song, written in collaboration with villagers and the folk singing group Broniowianki, was presented locally in a series of performances and documented on video, contrasting ethnographic representation (the image) with the peopleʼs own view of their situation (the lyrics). The tune was appropriated from a local love song.
    Commissioned by Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw for Cięcie (Cut) project and curated by Magda Lipska.

3. Alexandra Gschiel (Germany) “Powerwalk” Pal, Color, Sound, 22 min., 2019.

4. Alicja Rogalska (Poland) “Untitled (Dreamed Revolution)” Pal, Color, Sound, 13.18 min., 2014-2015.

Concept:

    A video based on documentation of a performance conceived and directed by the artist, in which local activists were invited to take part in an experimental workshop and, hypnotised by a professional stage hypnotist (Jurij Mokriszczew), collectively articulate possible scenarios for future society. Hypnosis was not only used as a meditative tool to increase focus and facilitate creativity but also to remove learned thinking barriers. For the people not susceptible to hypnosis it was also a chance to share their wild visions of the future in a safe space open to thought experimentations and contradictions. The project was an attempt to move beyond the forms of subjectivity created by the ideological hegemony of global neoliberal capitalism which inform rational thinking and affectivity and limit the horizons of imagination.
    Commissioned by Teatr Nowy and Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź for Avantgarde and Social Realism project and curated by Aleksandra Jach.

5. Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovacic (Austria) “Aquamarine” Pal, Color, Sound, 5.33 min,. 2019.

Concept:

    "Aquamarine" means not only the well-known light blue hue, but also, what the color is based on, the mineral beryl. Translated literally: the color of the sea. The film AQUAMARINE takes a constellation of (blue-green) color, maritime, liquid, and of course, mineral, as a starting point for setting the cited components in a jolting, undulating balance based on the track of the same name by the group MOPCUT. The visual starting material comprises views of the ocean around the island of Gomera, filmed from above, in close-up, or from a ship. Pastel blue shimmering white crests, but also nocturnal shots of the horizon are set into convulsions and (time-)bends to the music—for this, Billy Roisz and Dieter Kovačič employed a specially written program for defamiliarization of the frame rate. The "liquefaction of the liquid" is taken to such extremes that—as soon as the guttural singing begins—a spectral fluttering and untenable fluctuation overcome the image space. For a while, the ruffle of waves, permeated by all manner of chimera, heaves in an ominous black and white. Set to the increasingly more tightly timed sound texture are flash like illuminations and shadings that continually steer the gaze to the abysmal light blue. Slowly, a bottom is peeled from the (water) layers, which at the same time, signifies spectral infiltration and medial growth in structure. In continuously new, additional color shades, a type of mineral framework gradually becomes visible behind the shimmering surface. The digital "crystallizes" here layer by layer and at the same time, keeps on flowing. A symbol referring to the subtle stabilization of our seeing, which has meanwhile become accustomed to fluid images. (Christian Höller)
Translation: Lisa Rosenblatt

6. Chayanis Wongthongde (Thailand) “Nihilism” Dot, 1.50 min., Video Loop, Black & White, 2020

Concept:

    The mental state of human ailments, Recognizing the Wastage of Strength Causing humans to face the state of nothingness Without meaning, worthless, hopeless nothing is true, everything is permitted. One of my experiences has influenced our perception and understanding of the nature of life. Occurrence - decay Clarity – Fuzziness.   

7. Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovacic (Austria) “Surge” Pal, Color, Sound, 5 min,. 2019.

Concept:

    A green shape hops on a red background mildly offbeat to a waltzing rhythm rendered by the alternating sounds of an increasingly slurred high- key ping and deeply resonant bass tone as the green color gradually turns turquoise and spreads out in space. Something awakes and stretches itself, the gravitational center of the image shifts from horizontal to vertical. In the next section a mysterious object – not a UFO – enters from the left and pushes across the image at a Star Wars angle. It is a finely chiseled ghost ship that shape shifts into a gorge and back again to the powerful beat of the music. The voyage of the gorge ship is superimposed with vertical stripes. These glitches serve as an allusion to disturbed analog signals and interfere with a circumspect deciphering of what is seen, thereby triggering the imagination. The next sequence returns us to abstraction, circumscribing an inner world conjured by bass notes – the insistent beating of a heart cradled within the ghost ship. It resolves into the slow- motion dance of a phosphorescent fade-out.
    The nautical horror Billy Roisz and Dieter Kovacic associate with Surge by schtum (Manu Mayr & Robert Pockfuß) recalls their dark opus THE (2015). Something sinister is happening, something difficult to put into words. It unfolds aesthetically on a sound and image level through an ephemeral sense of dread, a staggering beauty and the extreme over- modulated deployment of contrasting pairs – high/ low, shuttered/ torn open, organic/ two-dimensional. Recommendation: Play it full blast in the darkest room! (Melanie Letschnig)
Translation: Eve Heller

8. Chayamon Steereasinlapin (Thailand) “Untitled” Pal, Color, Sound,  1.26 min., 2018.

9. Chakrhit Buranarom (Thailand) “Untitled” Pal, Color, Sound, 4.00 min., 2020.

10. Chakrhit Buranarom (Thailand) “No Where” Pal, B&W, Sound, 4 mins., 2020.

11. Eva-Ursprung (Austria) “Der Berg (The Mountain)” Pal, Color, Sound, 4.32 min., 2017.

12. Eva-Ursprung (Austria) “The End” Pal, Color, Sound, 3.11 min., 2017.

13. Gerald Zahn (Austria) “PIANO” Pal, Color, Sound, 1.35 min., 2019.

Concept:

    Just like a pianist playing on an endless keyboard and filling the empty staves with notes, train tracks and electrical overhead lines run through the image. A visual score for a dazzling, swift piano composition by Chilly Gonzales.

14. Eva-Ursprung (Austria) “Die Schleuse (The Battage)” Pal, Color, Sound, 6.44 min., 2017.

15. Gertrude Moser-Wagner and Ulrich Kaufmann (Austria) “bridge NOTHING” Pal, Color, Sound, 5.30 min., 2020.

Concept:

    It's about visibility and blindness to the obvious. Multilinear art video that combines visual poetry based on projection with live performance and particles of language. Bright and dark parts are compositionally in it and create a surprising picture. NOTHING is generated, collected, moved, sunk. Something, an action, actually was and should follow.

16. Hyeseon Jeong (South Korea) “No one can stop” Documentary film, Pal, Color, Sound, 7.18 min., 2018.

17. Komson Nookiew (Thailand) “English Speaker” Pal, Color, Sound, 2 min., 2020.

18. Hyeseon Jeong (South Korea) “No one can stop” Documentary film, Pal, Color, Sound, 7.18 min., 2018.

19. Hyeseon Jeong (South Korea) “There is a dense forest” Documentary film, Pal, Color, Sound, 7.31 min., 2017.

20. Igor F. Petkovic (Austria) “SPINPRAY session 1-3” Pal, Color, Sound, 3.33 min., 2012

Concept:

    Igor F. Petkovic´ has been developing an artistic research project at the interface between theology and (natural) science, between spirituality and rationality for a long time. The basis is the questioning of spiritual and spiritual contents through scientific, imaging processes with the means of art, in which human (physical) attitudes of faith, prayer and meditation are examined and depicted. Questions like: Can you “scan” God? Do you “see” faith? What do folded, praying hands hide? The project is a cooperation project with MedUNI Graz and the Institute for Philosophy at KFU Graz. The body as a pure expression of the deeply spiritual relativizes interdenominational demarcations. Working on the extensive raw material became repetitive meditation. The contemplative experiences of the mr tests led to a spiritual journey in body and mind. Canonized attitudes of spiritual alienation frozen in minutes of persistence. Twenty minute penance prayers, scanned at 1.5 tesla. The cross-sections of the body parts reveal new insights beyond medical findings. The work raises some questions but also open one thing: human existence as a physical and spiritual being.

21. Laura Engelhardt (Germany) “突击建房 – Bauangriff (Construction Assault)” Pal, Color, Sound, 7.22 min., 2019.

Concept:

    突击建房 – Bauangriff is an essay documentary that examines the building and demolition cycles in Beijing’s periphery. It draws upon the phenomena of ‘tuji jianfang’ (construction assault), a local building practice in which houses get built just to be demolished. The narrator travels with Beijing’s subway between the modern city centre and the wastelands and demolition sites of the outskirts. She is confronted with the clash of China’s high-tech world on the one hand and the repetitive, manual labour of rural migrants on the other hand. They work in the demolition and construction businesses, as backbone of China’s huge building boom and urban expansion. The journey shifts between these vast and continuously changing peripheral landscapes and the massive advertising screens that occupy the city and promote progress and a better life. Images of recycled building materials are juxtaposed with advertisement loops of Beijing’s subway, trying to grasp the speed and absurdity of China’s changing urban environment.

22. Laura Engelhardt (Germany) “Notes from the Neighbourhood observes” Pal, Color, Sound, 7.22 min., 2019.

Concept:

    Notes from the Neighbourhood observes, over the course of two years, an inner courtyard in Berlin, in which investors erect a new residential building for resale. As the construction progresses, a woman narrates the ups and downs of her contrary life, and the stagnation of her body. From autumn 2015 to autumn 2017, I film from the window of my flat in Berlin Alt-Treptow the view of our courtyard, and document the construction process of a new residential building.
    Alt-Treptow belonged to the former GDR until 1989. Since 5 years ago, it has been undergoing a rapid urban change due to in-migration and recent property developments. My neighbour, Heike Rienow, was born in the house from which I film in 1964. Because of a bone disease, she has been unemployable for 25 years. She witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall just 200 meters away and took care of her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer disease, in her 45sqm flat. Inspired by my neighbour a fictional character came into being as a woman at the window. While the view captures daily scenes amidst speculation and displacement, her thoughts revolve around the past and her own bodily fragility and potential stagnation. A filmic narration of urban and bodily conditions.

23. Miriam J. Carranza (England) “Cosmic Dissociations (Express)” Pal, Color, Sound, 8.00 min., 2019.

24. Murat Adash (Turkey) “One in the Other” Pal, Color, Sound, 12.28 min., 2018.

25. Menno Aden (Germany) “Couriouser and Couriouser “ Pal, Color, Sound, 4.41 min., 2020.

Concept:

    A videographic examination of the hotel as a temporary place, as a "Non-Place" (Marc Augé), between foreign and home. Narrated as a first-person game in a "God Mode", in which walls and doors become permeable portals that create the greatest possible transparency of architecture and yet offer no way out of a kafkaesque world. Underlaid with quotations from Lewis Carrol's "Alice in Wonderland" (1865), about losing oneself and finding oneself again, about coming and going and about the sense and nonsense of our existence. It is no coincidence that the camera reminds us of films like "The Shining", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" or "2001: A Space Odyssey", in which time and space do not always form a continuum.

26. Markus Wilfling (Germany)”WINDELPRACHT” Pal, Color, Sound, 6.00 min., 2018.

27. Nithiphat Hoisangthong (Thailand) “Parallel” Pal, Color,Sound, 1.00 min., 2020.
Concept:

    How we look at the various phenomena. There is always the truth that is visible and invisible.

28. Nikolai Meierjohann (Germany) “You Help Me To Grow” Pal, Color, Sound, 6.25 min., 2019.

29. Nika Ham (Austria) “Dance with Bentham / OG2 “ Pal, Color, Sound, 3.38 min., 2019.

Concept:

    Project Dance with Bentham is a long-term project I am working on since 2015. I use the surveillance system of museums and other public spaces to document my short performances. In his book Crime and Punishment, Foucault wrote about Bentham, whom established the panoptic principle - everything must be visible. I know I am being observed and I want the observer to know that. The project deals with the relationship between the artist vs. institution, body vs. space, observing vs. being observed, private vs. public in a humorous and witty way – the end result being a video or a stop motion animation made from surveillance footage. In the performances I focus on movement, rhythm and exploration of my own body in a public space. OG2 is happening at Salzburg museum. It is a video consisting of short repetitive dance moves that are performed across the exhibition halls. With the pink raincoat (Salzburg = rain) I become an obvious intruder in the space. Together with the music track it becomes a dance show for the surveillant in an unconventional setting.

30. Natnaran Bualoy (Thailand) “Untitled” Pal, No sound, Colour, 3 min., 2020.

31. Philipp Messner (Italy) “DL-M-highres” Pal, Color, Sound, 6 min., 2019.

32. Natthaphon Chaiworawat  (Thailand) "EAT WE" Pal, Color, Sound, Performance, 10-15 min., 2017.

Concept:

    Performance (10-15 mins) Natthaphon examine daily activity such as eating to represent the potential of simplicity and consciousness.
    Objects MONOCHROMATIC, Light Installation by MELION 2.50 Euros, 1 Walls Magnum Almond Ice-cream, 1 Seatplace

33. Poorinat Plangklang (Thailand) “Lion Fish” Pal, Color, Sound, 2.22 min., 2019.

34. Poorinat Plangklang (Thailand) “Sea Fish” Pal, Color, Sound, 2.22 min., 2019.

35. Pasutt Kanrattanasutra (Thailand) “Pattani Today” Pal, Color, Sound, 13.22 min., 2019.

36. Rachata Yooyim (Thailand) "Journey" Video Pal , color and sound , 2.51 min , 2018
Concept:

    Bringing different audio and video together to create a relationship to bring the audience together with sound and picture.

37. Praewvanich Sae-Lim (Thailand) “Untitled” Pal, Color, Sound, 9.33 min., 2019.

Concept:
    Existing or non-existent areas: free ground, ground water, wind, sun, sunning, floating, pointless.

38. Praewvanich Sae-Lim (Thailand) “Bon Voyage” Pal, Color, Sound, 1.56 min., 2019.

Concept:

    This work of mine is presents my thought and beliefs in Chinese culture through the tragedy of Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight. Departing from Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia to Beijing of China that lost without a trace by using pictures instead of this event like a memoryless state the thing that reminds me is human. An airplane was flying into the sky like leaving the real world floating grooves looking at clouds of carious shapes, the sky is vast in an imaginary world, associate the truth with things that are not true. Comparison of overlap and diversity between existence the dividing line of the opposite will tend to blur, Indicates travel to destinations.

39. Sakonpat Chotipatthamanon (Thailand) “UNDER CONTROL” Pal, Color, Sound, 5.30 min., 2019.

Concept:

    The main concept of this artwork was from the research. I had read about The number of depression people is increasing nowadays. And They might turn to commit suicide. So, I try to represent some part of their feeling. I was putting myself to get downstairs by walking back to put myself to risk situation and try to understand how the depression people feel and suicide people.

40. Sabine Marte (Austria) “Accident” Pal, Color, Sound, 4.21 min., 2020.

41. Salme Dutt & Aphra Tesla (Slovenia) “A Mole, Larger in Size Than Ever Seen Before" Pal, Color, Sound, 7.37 min., 2020.

Concept:

    "A Mole, Larger in Size Than Ever Seen Before" is a poetic work of years long discussion, sistership and brotherhood between Huxtrl, Tanel Rander and Aphra Tesla. The video is made in the dark burrows of mind amidst the perversion of existence and the era of new fascism. The title of the video comes from Frantz Kafka's text "Village Schoolmaster" that speaks about frustration of powerless marginality and provinciality.

42. Supapong Laodheerasiri (Thailand) “Thai Red Chicken Curry with Jasmine Rice” Pal, Color, Sound, 4 min., 2018.

Concept:

    Thai Red Chicken Curry with Jasmine Rice is a chilled ready meal from Lidl in Glasgow, Scotland. However, Lidl is not a British supermarket, but it is a German global discount supermarket chain. The food could indicate a form of transformation of the original Thai food to become British Thai food. The taste and the ingredients of the original of Thai Red Curry are applied to suit the tastes of British people. Thus, it becomes hybrid food. Furthermore, the eating chilled ready meals from supermarkets could reflect the urban contemporary life style. In conclusion, concepts of the artwork are about issues of nationality, international relations, Brexit, and an independence referendum. Including, the living in contemporary sociality, which is the multicultural and hybrid society.

43. Susi Jirkuff (Austria) “Measuring the Distance” Pal, Color, Sound, 7 min., 2019.
 

Concept:

    Being at the margin is no only a spatial but a social reality.  The film explores images of the edges of cities and the narratives they carry with them.

44. Tina Van De Weyer (Germany) “Into the Light” Pal, Color, Sound, 2.50 min., 2020.

45. Vacharanont Sinvaravatn (Thailand) “In-Between” Pal, Color, Sound, 10.16 mins., 2019.

46. Vacharanont Sinvaravatn (Thailand) “In-Between” Pal, Color, Sound, 10.16 min., 2019.

47. Warocha Sathurat (Thailand)  “พูดไปก็ไหม้หมด” Pal, Color, Sound, 4.48 min., 2020.

Concept:
    It was inspired by the COVID-19 crisis and the neglect of the government that did not solve the problem poorly and completely, despite the fact that there was a lot of news of people making grievances through various media channels. But I didn't see any solve better solutions to the problem. inspired this work. It is similar to the irony of how good it is, how poor it is, it burns out, it looks useless.

48. Yasinee Saeung (Thailand) "ASMR Please!" Performance,  Pal, Color, Sound, 1.30 min., 2020.

49. Kamolnat Osotprasit (Thailand) "Love is no gender" Pal, Color, Sound, 2020.

Concept:

    This concept conveys the love that have no gender limitation. This is showing Pre-wedding of the couple who are both non-binary. I am willing to give people realization about the  human right that legal violence against LGBTQ community should be band. Moreover, people should aware that physical and emotional abuse are not acceptable. Deep in my heart, I truly believe that “love is not criminal”.

50. Chaiworawat Natthaphon (Thailand) “Fox in the beer garden” Pal, Color, Sound, 1 Hour 53 min., 2019.

51. Virinsire Chomchey (Thailand) “I am going to Paris , when I stay in Bangkok”
Color, Sound, 4.30 min., 2020.

Concept:

    I have many dreams, I love traveling, I love adventure, I want to travel; I love people, I love nature, I would like to see other things, I have a dream.

 

 

Exhibition Venue

 

Fine Arts Department, Architechture Faculty,

King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Ladkabang.

17 September - 25 September 2020

 

Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Faculty,

Burapha University

22 - 24 October 2020

 

Painting Department, College of Fine Arts,

Ladkabang, Bangkok.

12 -14 November 2020

Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts Faculty,

Silpakorn University.

18 - 21 November 2020

Suan Sunandha International School of Art, 

Suan Sunandha Rajabhat.

14  - 16 December 2020

Media Arts and Design Institute,

ChiangMai University.

25 - 27 December 2020

Co-Operators  



 

Associated Professor Pitiwat Somthai, 


Fine and Applied Arts Faculty, Burapha University
  

 


Instructor Sakchai Bunin,
 

College of Fine Arts, Bangkok



 

Instructor Arnont Nongyao,


Media Arts and Design Institute, 

ChiangMai University 



 

Instructor Soemsakun Saranpreti,


Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts Faculty, Silpakorn University
 

 

  
Assistant Professor Siridej Sirisomboon, 


School of Fine and Applied Arts Faculty, Bangkok University



 

Assistant Professor Komson Nookiew, 


Fine Art Department,
 King Muangkut's Institute of Technology, 

Ladkrabang, Bangkok
  

 


Susanna Schoenberg, 

Consulten and Co-operator, 


Cologne-Düsseldorf, 

 

Germany

Christian Sievers, 

Consulten and Co-Operator, 


Cologne-Düsseldorf, Germany

 



David Rych, 

Consulten and Co-Operator, 


Berlin-Norway, Germany